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To: RJS1950
It can be released on his orders. He is the ultimate classification authority, DOJ works for him. He’s trying to throw congress a bone to do the right thing, but he is the releasing authority.

Actually he's not. The memo is House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence work product. The man with the final say so over its release Devin Nunes, Committee chair. He can sit on it or release it with or without the President's approval. However, since a lot of the sourcing for the memo is from classified Administration sources, he wants Trump's approval before he releases it.

126 posted on 01/28/2018 12:48:57 PM PST by Tonytitan
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To: Tonytitan

They are holding out on the memo based on the classification, saying that it would reveal methods and sources. Trump can declassify the document because he is the top classification authority. They can still choose not to release it and then it still falls on the house to give it up as no longer classified.


159 posted on 01/28/2018 7:48:47 PM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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