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President Trump is expected to swiftly declassify a controversial memo on
purported surveillance abuses, sources tell Fox News, even as Democrats
raise objections that edits were made to the document since it was approved
for release by a key committee.
The release is likely to come Friday morning, Fox News is told.
Trump already had made clear he supports the release of the document, but
the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee late Wednesday charged
that the committee's chairman made "material changes" to the memo.
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who opposes the memo’s release in any form,
wrote that the committee’s minority determined the letter was not “the
same document” its members have been reviewing since mid-January. Chairman
Devin Nunes's office countered that the changes were minor and blasted the
complaint as a “bizarre distraction from the abuses detailed in the memo.”
Fox News is told that the version Trump plans to declassify contains only “
technical edits” made at the request of the FBI.
Sources said the edited version was shown to five FBI officials at the White
House on Tuesday afternoon. Sources said the officials were satisfied that
the edited memo addressed concerns they had about the earlier version they
reviewed on Monday.
Yet, in a rare and surprising rebuke, an FBI statement was released on
Wednesday asserting they had “grave concerns about material omissions of
fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy.”
Next steps are not yet clear, but the president may transmit the letter back
to the committee with a declaration that it has been declassified. The
committee would then release the memo.
Under official rules, the committee is technically able to release such
information after a five-day period unless the president objects. The
committee formally started that clock with a vote this past Monday. |
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