Posted on 01/20/2018 10:59:34 AM PST by BenLurkin
Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee are considering using an obscure committee rule to bypass the executive branch's declassification process to release the classified memo on alleged surveillance abuses spearheaded by Chairman Devin Nunes.
Rep. Mike Conaway, the Texas Republican leading the committee's Russia investigation, said Friday evening that the committee would consider using the rule — which he believed had never been invoked in the committee's 40-year history — in order to publicly release the memo that Republicans say details FBI abuses of a surveillance law known as FISA. And if the committee votes in favor of making the classified Nunes memo public, the rule states that it's then up to President Donald Trump to decide whether it should be released.
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The committee rule that Republicans might rely on to release the memo states that the Intelligence Committee "may disclose publicly any information in its possession after a determination by the select committee that the public interest would be served by such disclosure."
Under the rule, the committee vote would trigger a five-day waiting period where the President has to notify the committee whether he objects to the disclosure of the information.
If the President does not object, the information would be released. But if the President does object, it would put the matter to the full House, which could potentially debate the matter in a closed session in the chamber before a public vote could override the President's objection.
Such a decision for the President could drive yet another wedge between Trump and the intelligence community, the FBI and the Justice Department, all of which almost surely would object to the release of information related to FISA warrants.
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Hopefully it’ll work out that Trump will divulge the contents or release it on January 30th during the State of the Union.
Hopefully it’ll work out that Trump will divulge the contents or release it on January 30th during the State of the Union.
Semi-fixed.
CNN? CNN?? The end is near! #ReleaseTheMemo
If they do...they better not redact one word.
I hope it also contains the names of the fake news propagandists are taking CIA money to push fake news stories.
CNN telling us what to do and when? Riiight.
Just do it, are they afraid of frying some of the alleged leadership.
Bump!
Screw the left, they do not get to tell us what to decide on this one. Release the memo and we will read it and decide for ourselves. If we need more information then we have a road map of where to sue for the release of more information so all if the lefts criminals conspiracy can finally be exposed.
Does this jerk think that the ENTIRE Intelligence Community is opposed to President Trump? And therefore there is a wedge between them?
How tunnel-thinking are the media? I know they speak in one voice without much variation, but that does not mean every group thinks the same way. I’m sure the President can find those in intelligence who have a brain and will support him. The problem was that the Highest Officials were involved in the scandal, which put a damper on blowing the whistle. Those same officials, I believe, have a history of treating potential whistleblowers badly.
Media are obsessed with spreading the fake news that Pres is hated by everyone. My God, they need such help.
I am amazed they did not state that the memo consist of only Republican talking points.
What memo?
The anticlimactic GOP is really good at killing motivation. While the Democrat Thug Party gets away with murder.
Release.
The.
Memo.
Why is CNN covering this now?
January 19, 2018
Mike Cernovich
@Cernovich
Adam Schiff and other Democrats have told CNN the are NOT ALLOWED to report on #ReleaseTheMemo. CNN complied with their demands, and will not cover it.
Via Soros
What a joke. Any foreign intelligence organization that wants a copy of this likely already has it. The only people who are not being allowed to see it are the taxpayers who paid for it.
Politics is a scam and we’re suckers for playing.
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