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F.B.I. Texts and Dueling Memos Escalate Fight Over Russia Inquiry

The following article by Charlie Savage, Nicholas Fandos and Adam Goldman was posted on the New York Times website January 24, 2018:

Representative Adam Schiff of California, the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, said his party would move to make its memo available to the House on the same terms as the Republican memo. Credit J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department warned the House Intelligence Committee chairman on Wednesday that it was “extraordinarily reckless” for Republicans to push to release a committee memo that draws on classified information to portray the origins of the Russian investigation as scandalous.

In a letter to Representative Devin Nunes of California, the Republican chairman of the committee, Stephen E. Boyd, an assistant attorney general, stressed that the committee had refused to show the memo to the F.B.I.

“We do not understand why the committee would possibly seek to disclose classified and law enforcement sensitive information without first consulting with the relevant members of the intelligence community,” Mr. Boyd wrote. Continue reading “F.B.I. Texts and Dueling Memos Escalate Fight Over Russia Inquiry”