The thing about
declassifying information is that when it's declassified it's, you know, declassified for everyone. There's no "just tell John Fund and nobody else" provision. So, if John Fund is sitting in on "security briefings" hearing things which he's not allowed to tell people then we should perhaps figure out what's going on here. I understand that journalists are told things "on background" at times so this may not be classified information, but Democratic members of Congress especially might want to find out if John Fund gets to know things they don't.