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Comey memo fallout is mostly fizzle

The following article by Katie Bo Williams was posted on the Hill website April 20, 2018:

President Trump and former FBI director James B. Comey. (Evan Vucci, left, and Susan Walsh/AP)

The public release of seven memos written by former FBI Director James Comey documenting his interactions with President Trump has divided Washington down political lines.

The president swiftly tweeted that the fifteen partially-redacted pages show Comey leaked classified information. Some of his supporters have called for prosecution.

But outside of Trump’s core allies, the verdict is less certain.

Even some Republicans on Capitol Hill have privately acknowledged that the release of the memo might have been an unforced error, thrusting scrutiny back onto Trump’s alleged interactions with Russian prostitutes and off of Comey himself. Up until Thursday, the former director had been taking some heat for the personal shots he takes at the president’s appearance in his new book, which was released on Tuesday. Continue reading “Comey memo fallout is mostly fizzle”

House Democrats’ Memo Rebutting Nunes Memo

After weeks of delay by the Trump White House, the House Democrats’ memo written to clarify and rebut the attempts to smear the federal law enforcement agencies was finally released last week.

If you haven’t had a chance to review it, you can view the PDF below:

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The most important part of the GOP memo is all the things it does not say

The following article by Judd Legum was posted on the ThinkProgress website February 2, 2018:

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, walks away from a meeting with House GOP members, on Capitol Hill January 30, 2018 in Washington, DC. Credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images

What’s missing is a lot more telling than what is there.

House Republicans and Donald Trump released the infamous “memo” on Friday afternoon that purports to show corruption and malfeasance by the FBI. It mostly focuses on the process used to obtain a surveillance warrant on Carter Page, a former Trump adviser, arguing the process was flawed and partisan. It was written by staffers for House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA). The document, while rehashing a lot of known facts about the counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign, is more notable for what it does not say. Continue reading “The most important part of the GOP memo is all the things it does not say”