Following that secret meeting, DNI Clapper's assistant sent an email to the intelligence community with the subject line POTUS Tasking on Russia Election Meddling Tasking ODNI leaders to create a new assessment per the President's request. The House Intelligence Committee Oversight report that we released today reveals that, quote, unlike routine intelligence community analysis, the intelligence community assessment was a high profile product ordered by the President, President Obama. It directed senior intelligence community agency heads and created an intelligence community assessment limited to just five analysts using one principal drafter. (11:13–11:28)
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Asserts that the intelligence community assessment was ordered by President Obama.
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