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The Department of Justice called the plan to release it to the public extraordinarily reckless.
BETSY WOODRUFF
SPENCER ACKERMAN
01.24.18 5:57 PM ET
A controversial Republican memo alleging surveillance abuse specifically names FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein along with former FBI Director James Comey.
Capitol Hill sources on both sides of the aisle say the memos release is only a matter of time. And when it comes out, these current and former officials all GOP bêtes noires are likely to face even more criticism from the right over their involvement in FBI counterintelligence work.
Republicans, including Trump himself, have spent months attacking McCabe and Comey while special counsel Robert Mueller has been investigating Team Trumps connections to the Kremlin. Rosenstein put that probe in placea move Trump has derided as a witch hunt.
A groundswell is building to release the memowritten by Devin Nunes, the California Republican and key Trump ally who chairs the House intelligence committeewhich former FBI agents fear will damage public trust in the bureau. While Democrats say the memo deliberately misrepresents the procedures for obtaining a foreign-intelligence surveillance warrant, The Daily Beast has learned that Hill Republicans are gearing up to use an obscure parliamentary rule to release it.
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gordianot
(15,289 posts)At this point it dont matter dust off old accusations and call it new.
NewJeffCT
(56,830 posts)so, a Republican in Nunes is calling out three fellow Republicans?
underpants
(183,413 posts)a made-for-Facebook opening rant by Jeanine Pirro on Fox News?
Docreed2003
(16,942 posts)If only to show what a hack Nunes really is. This is a guy whos writing a memo about classified programs whos inner workings of which hes not even privileged to know the details. This memo will be little more that misconstrued and manipulated tin foil hat bullshit.
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)oasis
(49,762 posts)Why should his constituents even consider reelection of this half baked Machiavellian?
Skraxx
(2,990 posts)Probably since before the election. Mueller has much of the illegal activity on tape and they are freaking out. This "memo" is a gambit to delegitimize the FISA surveillance of their activities.
maxsolomon
(33,561 posts)They're throwing mud to see what sticks to the wall.