The Schiff
memo is a well-considered rebuttal to the misinformation in the Nunes
memo.
The
Memo gate controversy revolves around a memorandum addressed to admiral Mike Mullen ostensibly seeking help of Obama Administration in the wake of the Osama Bin Laden card to avert a military take over of the civilian government.
White House counsel Don McGahn said in a letter to the committee that the
memo contains "numerous properly classified and especially sensitive passages" and asked the intelligence panel to revise the
memo with the help of the Justice Department.
WASHINGTON: Democratic and Republican lawmakers said Sunday that a GOP-produced congressional
memo on FBI surveillance powers did not clear President Donald Trump in the Russia investigation and expressed hope that special counsel Robert Mueller's work would continue without interference.
Trump's embrace of the
memo raised again the prospect that he could use it as justification to fire special counsel Robert Mueller, who is conducting the investigation, or Deputy Attorney Rod Rosenstein, who oversees Mueller.
White House spokesman Raj Shah said he expected a decision to be made "pretty soon" on whether to halt the House intelligence committee from releasing the
memo.
Washington DC [United States] Feb 2 ( ANI ): Top White House aides are concerned that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray might quit if the Republican- crafted
memo, alleging country's top law-enforcement agency abused its surveillance tools, is released.
At its heart, the four-page
memo aims to discredit a dossier commissioned in 2016 of then-candidate Donald Trump and the alleged activities of him and his associates with Russia.
Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, made the claims in a letter to Nunes that he later posted on Twitter, accusing the committee chairman of making "substantive" changes to the confidential
memo before sharing it with White House counsel for release.
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump told a member of Congress on Tuesday night that he would "100 per cent" allow the public release of a GOP-drafted
memo alleging surveillance abuses by the FBI and the Department of Justice, effectively ending speculation about whether he would back the campaign to declassify the document.
By adding a standard reason category to each debit
memo, customers will receive consistent and specific information about why the debit
memo was issued.
Roberto Fajardo on Tuesday said that the
memo contained raw intelligence information subject for validation.
memo - a written proposal or reminder