by Kelly Cohen | Feb 9, 2018, 2:13 PM
President Trump said Friday that a rebuttal memo written by Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee will be released “soon.†The memo was written to provide context to a Republican memo released last week alleging abuses by the FBI and the Justice Department against the Trump campaign.
“It’s going to be released soon. We’re going to be releasing a letter soon,†Trump said at the White House Friday afternoon.
He was likely referring to the letter sent alongside the copy of the memo from the White House back to House Intelligence. After that, the committee can release the memo.
The Republicans’ memo released one week ago had such a letter, which also details the decision to release the memo and accompanying redactions.
Democrats on the panel say their memo corrects the misleading Republican memo, which accused the FBI and DOJ of using a flimsy set of evidence paid for by Democrats to authorize spying on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
After originally voting last month to keep the Democratic memo private, House Intelligence voted Monday to make it public.
Following the vote, Trump was given five days to review the memo and then give it back to the committee with redactions, or explicitly object to its release.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-says-democratic-memo-to-be-released-soon/article/2648672
