US Top Intelligence Officials Changes Rules to ‘Unmask’ Campaign Officials
The Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Dan Coats has ordered tighter restrictions on what names of Americans can be kept secret in intelligence reports during transitions between presidencies, after US President Donald Trump and others accused the previous administration of punitively revealing the identities of Trump campaign officials.
The policy will reinforce the existing procedures that "make clear that [intelligence community] elements may not engage in political activity, including dissemination of U.S. person identities to the White House, for the purpose of affecting the political process of the United States," as Coats wrote in a letter to Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.
"In addition, this policy will require heightened levels of approval for requests made during a Presidential transition when those requests relate to known members of a President-elect's transition team."
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