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August 2018 Intelligence News

• Statement from U.S. Attorney Bobby L. Christine Regarding Sentencing for Reality Winner, August 23. "The sentence rendered today is the longest received by a defendant for an unauthorized disclosure of national defense information to the media."
• Federal Government Contractor Sentenced for Removing and Transmitting Classified Materials to a News Outlet, Justice Dept news release, August 23. "Reality Winner, 26, of Augusta, Georgia, was sentenced today to five years and three months in prison for removing classified national defense material from a government facility and mailing it to a news outlet."
• Access Denied: Behind Trump's Review of Security Clearances by Deb Riechmann, Associated Press, August 16. "President has said he's yanking former CIA Director John Brennan's security clearance and threatened to do the same to other current and former officials tied to the federal investigation into Russian election interference."
• Statement from Former Intelligence Officials on the President's revocation of John Brennan's clearance, August 16. "Decisions on security clearances should be based on national security concerns and not political views."
• CIA Kicks-off "The Daily Summary: Informing President Truman": A Series of Declassified Releases, CIA news release, August 15. "CIA today released the first set of declassified material in a series of six releases of the daily intelligence report President Harry Truman received from the CIA and its predecessor organization, the Central Intelligence Group, between 1946 and 1951."
• Trump Fires Back at 'Vicious' Omarosa Manigault Newman by Peter Nicholas, Wall Street Journal, August 13. "President seeks to discredit ex-reality television star who secretly recorded conversation with him."
• The dos and don'ts of the Situation Room by Tara McKelvey, BBC News, August 13. "Former adviser Omarosa Manigault Newman surreptitiously recorded a conversation that she says took place in the Situation Room. Here's an insider's guide to the inner sanctum of the White House -- and why this incident amounts to a violation of security protocol."