Nancy Pelosi just revealed STATE SECRETS, Classified information that the House Intelligence Committee has traveled inside of North Korea on National Television.
9.7. No member of the Committee or of the Committee staff shall disclose, in whole or in part or by way of summary, the contents of any classified or committee sensitive papers, materials, briefings, testimony, or other information received by, or in the possession of, the Committee to any other person, except as specified in this rule. Committee members and staff do not need prior approval to disclose classified or committee sensitive information to persons in the Executive branch, the members and staff of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and the members and staff of the Senate, provided that the following conditions are met:
(1) for classified information, the recipients of the information must possess appropriate security clearances (or have access to the information by virtue of their office);
(2) for all information, the recipients of the information must have a need-to-know such information for an official governmental purpose; and
(3) for all information, the Committee members and staff who provide the information must be engaged in the routine performance of Committee legislative or oversight duties. Otherwise, classified and committee sensitive information may only be disclosed to persons outside the Committee (to include any congressional committee, Member of Congress, congressional staff, or specified non-governmental persons who support intelligence activities) with the prior approval of the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Committee, or the Staff Director and Minority Staff Director acting on their behalf, consistent with the requirements that classified information may only be disclosed to persons with appropriate security clearances and a need-to-know such information for an official governmental purpose. Public disclosure of classified information in the possession of the Committee may only be authorized in accordance with Section 8 of S. Res. 400 of the 94th Congress.
Section 8 of S. Res. 400 of the 94th Congress.
13.1 No member of the Committee or Committee staff shall travel
abroad on Committee business unless specifically authorized by the
Chairman and Vice Chairman. Requests for authorization of such
travel shall state the purpose and extent of the trip. A full report shall
be filed with the Committee when travel is completed.
13.2 When the Chairman and the Vice Chairman approve the
foreign travel of a member of the Committee staff not accompanying a
member of the Committee, all members of the Committee are to be
advised, prior to the commencement of such travel, of its extent,
nature and purpose. The report referred to in Rule 13.1 shall be furnished
to all members of the Committee and shall not be otherwise disseminated
without the express authorization of the Committee pursuant
to the Rules of the Committee.
13.3 No member of the Committee staff shall travel within this
country on Committee business unless specifically authorized by the
Staff Director as directed by the Committee.