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Trump to allow release of controversial memo | TheHill

posted onFebruary 2, 2018
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Article snippet: MORE plans to allow the release of a controversial memo detailing alleged surveillance abuses at the FBI, according to a senior administration official. The official said Trump will inform Congress of his decision “probably tomorrow,” adding the president did not have any national security objections to releasing it and would likely not request that any material be redacted. “The president is OK with it,” the official told reporters traveling with Trump aboard Air Force One. “I doubt there will be any redactions. It’s in Congress’s hands after that.” The decision paves the way for the document, which was drafted by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee, to be released to the public. Once the White House approves the memo's release, it would be up to the Intelligence panel to decide if and when to make it public.  Trump has been widely expected to sign off on the public release of the document, which some conservatives on Capitol Hill have heavily hinted could prove the undoing of the federal investigation into the Trump campaign's possible ties to Russia. The president has long derided that probe as a "witch hunt."  Democrats have described the document as a series of cherry-picked data points designed to kneecap special counsel MORE's investigation. Intelligence Committee Republicans have blocked Democrats, at least for now, from releasing their own countermemo drafted to rebut the GOP document. The FBI also fiercely opposes the release of the documen... Link to the full article to read more

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