The ‘intelligence bombshell’ that never went off

There has been considerable talk about the Jan. 5, 2017, White House gathering of conspirators hoping to unseat Donald Trump. Two weeks later National Security Adviser Susan Rice memorialized the meeting in a memo to self that has forever turned the phrase “by the book” into a punch line. There has been considerably less talk about the meeting or series of meeting in the White House Situation Room in early August 2016. The primary source on these meetings is the Washington Post.