In its statement, the FBI says it "takes seriously" its obligations to the FISA court that approves surveillance for foreign intelligence purposes. Lawmakers who have read it say it alleges the FBI and Justice Department gave scurrilous or incomplete evidence to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in order to surveil people in the Trump camp.
The White House says it is currently reviewing the document, and the president said Tuesday night that the chances of its being released are "100 percent."įor now, the memo remains classified. The intelligence committee voted along party lines on Monday to release the memo to the public.
That would allow the White House to replace Rosenstein with someone willing to shut down the investigation. In a Washington Post op-ed, Schiff noted that the memo also paves the way for the possible firing of Mueller or the man overseeing the probe, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. and by themselves," Jack Langer, a spokesman for Nunes, said in a statement, according to The New York Times.
Republicans responded to the letter, saying Schiff's complaints were merely a "strange attempt to thwart publication of the memo."ĭemocrats were "complaining about minor edits to the memo, including grammatical fixes and two edits requested by the F.B.I. llhQK9L7l6- Adam Schiff February 1, 2018 White House therefore reviewing a document the Committee has not approved for release. Nunes and other GOP allies of Trump say the memo makes the case about an epic scandal inside federal law enforcement.īREAKING: Discovered late tonight that Chairman Nunes made material changes to the memo he sent to White House – changes not approved by the Committee. The FBI statement appeared amid a bitter political fight over the memo, which was drawn up by committee Chairman Devin Nunes of California and the panel's Republican staff. "As expressed during our initial review, we have grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo's accuracy." "With regard to the House Intelligence Committee's memorandum, the FBI was provided a limited opportunity to review this memo the day before the committee voted to release it," the FBI said. The FBI issued a rare, two-paragraph statement undercutting the position taken by President Trump and his top aides that the memo should be disclosed to the public soon. Meanwhile, the ranking Democrat on the House intelligence committee, which voted to release the memo, says Republicans secretly made "material changes" to the document after the decision to make it public. The bureau said it has "grave concerns" about the "accuracy" of the document that the president supports making public. The FBI clashed with the White House on Wednesday over the much discussed Republican memo that alleges the bureau abused its surveillance powers. The bureau warns it has "grave concerns" about the "accuracy" of the Republican surveillance memo at the center of a partisan whirlwind in Washington.
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