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What do we know about the secret GOP memo? - ABC News

posted onJanuary 31, 2018
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Article snippet: The GOP memo is a classified document drafted by the staff of House Intelligence Committee Chairman reports the document alleges abuses by Deputy Attorney General ABC News has reported, inflammatory and uncorroborated. According to the Times, the memo contends that Rosenstein, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants are approved by a judge in special FISA courts. On January 24 Assistant Attorney General Stephen E. Boyd sent a letter to Nunes' office, saying it would be "extraordinarily reckless" to release the memo without giving the Justice Department and the FBI a chance to review it first. Since then, FBI director Chris Wray has viewed at least part of the document during a meeting with Nunes on Sunday, according to sources. Now DOJ spokesperson Sarah Flores tells ABC News the issue of recklessness is "moot," because Wray has seen the GOP memo. Asked whether DOJ has a position now on whether the memo should be released, Flores declined comment. On Monday the Republican majority on the House Intelligence Committee voted along party lines to release the memo. Committee Republicans also rejected a request by Democrats to publicly release a Democratic counter memo based on the same underlying intelligence, but which Democrats said would show the GOP memo was based on "cherry-picked intelligence." Republicans did allow the Democratic memo to be released to other House members for review. The bottom line is that one way or another, cong... Link to the full article to read more

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