Who Else In The White House Gets To Read The PDB's?......

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3. Distribution can vary.

Usually it's President, Secretaries of State and Defense, National Security Adviser, and some other top-level officials as designated by POTUS. In very rare circumstances it is tagged as 'Eyes Only' for the President alone. This is the single most sensitive document produced by the Intelligence Community on a regular basis. It's based mostly on signals intelligence from NSA, with additional input from CIA assets and electronic and human intelligence sources.

Not sure how it is distributed under this (mis)administration, but it wouldn't surprise me if now it was to be relatively widely passed around among his co-conspirators. In the early 80's it was put into a special binder, sealed in a cover envelope, placed into a locked case and hand-delivered. If there were multiple copies they were serialized and signed for. Real 'cloak-and-dagger' stuff - it was deemed to be that sensitive, as any whiff of what was in it could either result in the loss of an important electronics intelligence route or the torture and eventual death of human sources throughout the world.

Of course, now he probably sends text messages like, "Hey, Vlad! You'll never guess what I just heard! Did your Assistant Office Manager really say...", then wonder why that Assistant Office Manager just fell out of a 25th floor window.