Politico: House Republicans clash over secret memo
Republicans say the public needs to see a memo that allegedly shows shocking wrongdoing by senior U.S. law enforcement officials, but one senior Democrat calls it a misleading effort to protect the president.
House Republicans are sharply divided over how to handle a classified memo that President Donald Trump’s allies say contains explosive details of misconduct by senior FBI and Justice Department officials.
The memo, compiled by House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes and fellow Republicans on the panel, claims that senior federal officials abused a secret surveillance program, commonly known as FISA, to target the Trump campaign. It also alleges other federal law enforcement wrongdoing that some Republicans insist should lead to the firings of senior officials.
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WNU Editor: Some Republicans are expressing concerns that making public this FISA memo may expose methods and sources that were used to produce this memo. The Democrats are calling this document “a misleading set of talking points attacking the FBI” and drawn from “highly classified” documents. I am not buying anyone of theseexcuses. The political damage that has been done in the past year over spying, Russia-gate, Mueller investigation, etc., .... if this is not enough of a reason to make this type of information public .... then we might as well resign ourselves to live in a society where nothing of consequence can then be made to the public.
Update: According to the following Reuters report, their sources (primarily retired intelligence officials who now work for think-tanks) are saying that the driving force behind this push to make public this FISA memo are Russian Twitter trolls .... In fight over Russia memo, Republicans have unusual ally (Reuters). More here .... Russia-linked Twitter accounts are working overtime to help Devin Nunes and WikiLeaks (Business Insider).
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