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Well, this is the Battle of the Bulge for the FBI, Department of Justice, and congressional Democrats over the memo war. This is the last gamble—and it’ll fail. For starters, President Trump said the FISA memo, which alleges abuses akin to that of the KGB regarding government surveillance, is going to be released. FBI Director Christopher Wray and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein made a last ditch effort on Monday, meeting with White House Chief of Staff John Kelly to plead their case. It failed. Wray even read the memo last Sunday, with two senior FBI officials saying it contained no factual inaccuracies. Now, Reps. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Adam Schiff (D-CA) are going haywire over what they describe as last-minute alterations to the memo. Pelosi has demanded Nunes be stripped of his House Intelligence Committee chairmanship.
There’s just one problem: They requested it, so did the FBI. They were grammatical changes—nothing more. For Democrats, it amounted to a two-word change. This isn’t document shredding in the back offices at midnight. This isn’t some surreptitious plot.
Was the memo used to obtain the warrant in question? Why can't it be reviewed for release unaltered? Ends the entire controversy.
If you were on the jury you should consider judging the veracity of the person or persons doing the most complaining and bitching.
My understanding of the memo is that the committee viewed an altered version of it and voted to release what they viewed. In my book, that's the error right there! They voted on an unauthenticated (doctored, not original) document. Now, the debate is over releasing another version of the memo, again a document that had been altered.
If presented evidence like that as a jury I'm going to vote to convict whomever altered the document regardless of reason and toss the contents of the document until we have an true and original copy.
After being presented with the opportunity by Republicans to review the version that was sent to the White House with the one shown to committee members, Schiff said Democrats concluded “it is clear… material changes to the version it sent to the White House, which Committee Members were never apprised of, never had the opportunity to review and never approved."
If someone were to publish a letter describing a bunch of illegal, immoral things I did, I would have "grave concerns" too.
Pure liar. Not much if any of that was true. But the Progressives still love him. He is not unique though, as politicians of both parties don't keep promises, but at least Trump is trying.
"In its increasingly strange attempt to thwart publication of the memo, the Committee Minority is now complaining about minor edits to the memo, including grammatical fixes and two edits requested by the FBI and by the Minority themselves," Langer said. "The vote to release the memo was absolutely procedurally sound, and in accordance with House and Committee rules. To suggest otherwise is a bizarre distraction from the abuses detailed in the memo, which the public will hopefully soon be able to read for themselves."