re: There apparently is some kind of sersious national security threat right now -

The threat is not new, but the current status of the capability appears to be about a week old.

Setting aside the near mandatory comments about Dems vs. Republicans here, making the intelligence material available to all of congress is just about the fastest way imaginable for the information to become public, which puts the intelligence community in a very tough spot. Just because its on the front page of the New York Times doesn't make it unclassified.