“Please call, tweet, or email to ask them if they are asking for the memo to be released. If not, why not? This is ridiculous. Our tax dollars paid for that memo and our votes elected those who have control over it, we shouldn’t have to beg for it. “
I feel your frustration as well, but we have representative government. This demands direct government by people who have no idea what might result from such a release. For example, President Carter was asked a question at a Washington Dinner party and he said, “Well, we know from Muhimar Kaddafi’s brother in law that...” The brother in law was supplying intelligence to the Israelis who then supplied it to the CIA, who, like idiots, briefed Carter. The brother in law was arrested and tortured to death.
During the Cuban missile crisis Kennedy asked the British to contact their agent on the Politburo to see if the Russians were willing to go to war. They did and the answer was no. But the contact was observed and the agent was arrested and tortured to death.
We know the memo is based on raw intelligence data. Who might be harmed by the release of that data? We don’t know. But our elected representatives do know. Let’s give them some space to handle this the way that presents minimum risk.
We are unhappy. Is it our representative’s fault? Probably not.
The 99 page report upon which the 4 page memo was based has been released and has been analyzed and does not indicate the concerns are regarding raw intelligence.
President Trump wants us to be able to read the 4 page memo. I stand with President Trump.
Nudnes redacted the report already and came up with this 4 page memo. Everyone who has seen it and talked about said it does not endanger any assets or national security. The redaction doesn’t need redacted.
So you redact names of any foreign intelligence workers and release the danged thing! I am sorry, but this is about a conspiracy within the United States to screw with a Presidential election by spying and when that failed to take out a sitting US President. Yes, the American people have a right to know everything up to names of foreign spies.
Why not take them at their word on that given that they are responsible for the memo?