Nancy Pelosi Didn’t “Just Know”. She Was Told.

Reuters broke a story yesterday that U.S. intelligence officials briefed the Gang of Eight that “two Russian intelligence agencies or their proxies were targeting the Democratic National Committee.”

The congressional briefing was given last summer in a secure room called a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, or SCIF, to a group of congressional leaders informally known as the “Gang of Eight,” the sources said.This group includes four Republicans: Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell and House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan, and Senator Richard Burr and Representative Devin Nunes, the House and Senate intelligence committee chairs. Their Democratic counterparts are Senator Harry Reid and Representative Nancy Pelosi, and Senator Dianne Feinstein and Representative Adam Schiff of the intelligence committees.

Ryan’s press secretary, AshLee Strong, declined to comment, and Pelosi’s office did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

But here is Rep. Pelosi denying that what she knows came from the House Intelligence committee.

“The Russians hacked the Democratic National Committee,” she told MSNBC during an interview at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. “There is no question about that. My source is not the Intelligence Committee of the Congress of the United States. It is what I know: They have hacked. That’s a fact.”

Two Russian intelligence services or their proxies

Besides outing how Pelosi actually knew it was the Russians, the article raises some serious concerns about how the U.S. government is assigning State responsibility to non-State “proxies”; something that I’ll cover more indepth in a later article.