White House grapples with releasing explosive memo amid Justice Department, Democratic opposition
by Sarah Westwood | Feb 1, 2018, 12:01 AM
As White House lawyers pored over a memo on Wednesday that contains allegations of government surveillance abuse, they may well have been preparing to do battle with the agency investigating President Trump over alleged Russian collusion.
The FBI said Wednesday that it has "grave concerns" about releasing the Republican-authored memo, which the House Intelligence Committee voted along party lines this week to release. FBI Director Christopher Wray viewed the document Sunday on Capitol Hill, one day before the committee's vote sent the memo to the White House for further review, and reportedly visited the White House on Monday in an effort to persuade Trump's aides not to approve the memo's release.
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