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To: Sdgla who wrote (1056970)	2/25/2018 12:11:02 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575837

"Clearly you are conflicted" I'm not. " if you’re claims are truthful" Always, comrade. 2 Weeks After Trump Blocked It, Democrats Release Rebuttal of G.O.P. Memo By NICHOLAS FANDOS FEB. 24, 2018 nytimes.com WASHINGTON — The House Intelligence Committee released a heavily redacted Democratic memorandum on Saturday that counters Republican claims that top F.B.I. and Justice Department officials had abused their powers in spying on a former Trump campaign aide. ( Read the Democratic memo.) President Trump blocked the memo’s outright release two weeks ago, with the White House counsel warning that the document “contains numerous properly classified and especially sensitive passages.” Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee had since been haggling with the F.B.I. and the Justice Department over redactions. On Saturday, the department returned the redacted document to the committee for release. Democrats have insisted that Mr. Trump’s deference to national security concerns in the case was hypocritical and politically motivated. Just a week before blocking their memo’s release, the president had ignored similar objections from the Justice Department and the F.B.I. to declassify the contents of a rival Republican memo, which was based on the same underlying documents. Mr. Trump asserted, incorrectly, that the Republican document vindicated him in the special counsel investigation into Russian election interference. The release of the Democratic rebuttal was expected to be the final volley, at least for now, in a bitter partisan fight over surveillance that has driven deep fissures through the once-bipartisan Intelligence Committee and at times pitted Mr. Trump against his own Justice Department and F.B.I. Representative Adam B. Schiff, the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, said on Saturday that the Democratic memo should “put to rest” Republican assertions of wrongdoing in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act process. “Our extensive review of the initial FISA application and three subsequent renewals failed to uncover any evidence of illegal, unethical or unprofessional behavior by law enforcement and instead revealed that both the F.B.I. and D.O.J. made extensive showings to justify all four requests,” he said in a statement.The dispute and the dueling memos center on applications by the F.B.I. in October 2016 to secure a secret warrant to spy on Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser suspected of being a Russian agent, and the subsequent renewals. continues at the link