From the Weekly Standard:
Top House Republicans met Saturday amid mounting calls for the release of a memo about alleged surveillance abuses by federal officials, a document that Democrats describe as a partisan stunt meant to undermine special counsel Robert Mueller.If Adam Shiftless says the memo is inaccurate? Then it's probably truthful.
House Intelligence Committee (HPSCI) chairman Devin Nunes met with House Oversight Committee chairman Trey Gowdy and Judiciary Committee chairman Bob Goodlatte in part to discuss the possibility of publicly releasing a four-page memo that Republicans say outlines politically motivated abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
Lawmakers have been hesitant to detail the contents of the classified memo, which was authored by GOP staff. But reports indicate that it addresses the extent to which law enforcement officials relied on information from ex-spy Christopher Steele, whose 2016 research was partially financed by Hillary Clinton’s campaign, in obtaining a FISA warrant to surveil Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
HPSCI Republicans voted Thursday to allow the full House to view the memo in a secure area of the Capitol. So far, about 180 Republicans and 10 Democrats have viewed the document, and the trio of Republican chairmen is encouraging more members to go read it, according to a GOP source. Democrats on the panel, meanwhile, have uniformly accused Republicans of wanting to release the document "for the political purpose of spreading a false narrative and undermining legitimate investigations." The panel's top Democrat, Adam Schiff, described the memo as "rife with factual inaccuracies."
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