Posted on 01/21/2018 7:27:50 AM PST by MarvinStinson
More than 130 congressional members have viewed the classified four-page memo detailing what senior government officials describe as “disturbing and explosive” surveillance abuse by employees of the FBI and Department of Justice under the Obama administration against President Trump and members of his campaign.
But almost all of them were Republicans.
Congressional officials expect the classified memo to be made available to the public before the end of the month. In order to make the classified memo public, the House Intelligence Committee, chaired by California Republican Devin Nunes, must first have another vote, a congressional source stated.
The vote is expected to happen and then the classified memo will be given to “POTUS for five days” so he can review it, the source stated. If POTUS objects to releasing the memo it will then go to the full House for a vote, they added.
President Trump is expected to approve the release of the memo.
Members who viewed the document say it is especially significant since the DOJ’s Inspector General Michale E. Horowitz will be issuing a report into how the FBI and DOJ handled the investigation into former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her use of an unsecured private server to send classified information.
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-FL, who viewed the memo Thursday said they are demanding it be made public but could not discuss the details of the memo due to its classified nature.
Rep. Adam Schiff, R- CA (sic), said in a statement the memo is “profoundly misleading set of talking points drafted by Republican staff attacking the FBI and its handling of the investigation,” he said in a statement to CNN.
The classified memo, however, is expected to expose severe abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which allows the intelligence community to gather communications on foreign subjects. Americans, however, are swept up in the collection of telephone, email and various other communications. The secret court chided the Obama administration in declassified documents when it discovered that one out of every 20 searches seeking upstream Internet data on Americans inside the NSA’s so-called Section 702 database violated the safeguards Obama and his intelligence chiefs vowed to follow in 2011. The Obama administration self disclosed these violations just days before the 2016 presidential election.
The failure of the Obama administration to disclose the extent of the violations earlier amounted to an “institutional lack of candor” and that the improper searches constituted a “very serious Fourth Amendment issue,” according to the court documents that were unsealed April 26, 2017.
Four-page memo detailing “disturbing and explosive” surveillance abuse by employees of the FBI and Department of Justice under the Obama administration against President Trump and members of his campaign.
Democrats are looking because they already know what is in it!
If Schiff doesn’t like the Republican summary, the Dems can write their own.
Why can’t they put ten copies of the memo into a secure room so that it can be read by members of Congress in 1/10 the time?
-PJ
“Rep. Adam Schiff, R- CA (sic),”
No,no, He’s a Democrat and a career politician at that.
schiff.house.gov/about/biography
Or lock all of congress in a room and have someone read it out loud.
Everything the dems do is group scripted. In this case, dem strategy is to control their messaging.
Only a select few will view the memo and present their talking points in response. People like Schiff who’s already doing this.
All the rest, when asked, can refuse to comment by saying, “I don’t know. I haven’t read it. Ask Congressman Schiff”.
Thanks for that.
“Democrats are looking because they already know what is in it!”
Thank you - same point I was going to make.
These b@stards are pondering their navels - hoping the pubbies won’t have the stones or the smarts to pursue justice.
So, the conspiracy theories were all true
Exactly.
Then they will trash the memo by saying it was written by GOP staffers.
The source files from DOJ and FBI must be declassified too.
Is this a Dan Rather letter?
False, but sounds good?
“...the Dems can write their own.”
And Of course, we can not count on the press to make this obvious point.
Because it’s made-up fake news?
#releaSETHememo
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