Writing this memo was the last thing Obama's National Security Advisor Susan Rice did, minutes before leaving office. You know it has to be important. Succinctly summarized by John Hinderaker at Powerlineblog: UPDATE below.
"She wanted it on record that President Obama had authorized her to lie, on advice from James Comey"
She lied to General Flynn who was coming in to occupy her position and the "Information ... as it relates to Russia" refers to information about their own improper Russia investigation into Trump people, not to giving secret information to Russians.
As usual, the best deep background and consistent source of original documents is from Sundance at TheConservativeTreeHouse. The Hinderaker one-liner simplifies the takeaway.
UPDATE May 20: White House counsel advised Susan Rice to write the CYA memo.
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