According to the Wall Street Journal, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has refused to provide unredacted classified intelligence material to Congress, citing the president's claim of "executive privilege." The intelligence was reportedly compiled into a report by the National Security Agency early last year, involving a conversation between two foreign individuals about Donald Trump's son-in-law, Kushner. Senior officials in the Trump administration said that claims regarding Kushner were "subject to being proven false," but they declined to provide further details, citing that revealing them could expose "highly sensitive surveillance methods." The White House did not comment. Several current and former intelligence officials said that using executive privilege to restrict sharing intelligence with congressional oversight bodies is relatively rare. A former chief legal counsel at the National Security Agency said that refusing to provide information to the "gang of eight" (the highest-level eight-member congressional intelligence oversight group) using executive privilege is uncommon, and when the relevant communications occurred between third parties outside the White House, it becomes even harder to justify.
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