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Republicans Line Up to View Classified FISA Abuse Memo
Democrats Choose to Stay in the Dark

More than 130 congressional members have viewed the classified four-page memo detailing what senior government officials describe as “disturbing and explosive” surveillance abuse by employees of the FBI and Department of Justice under the Obama administration against President Trump and members of his campaign.
But almost all of them were Republicans.
Since the document was released Thursday to House members “only Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee have seen it,” a congressional source with knowledge of the memo said.
The classified memo was described by senior government officials as a detailed account of the House Intelligence Committee’s investigation into the FBI and apparent FISA abuse associated with the controversial dossier that alleged President Trump colluded with Russia during the 2016 presidential election. As recently reported, some congressional members who reviewed the memo said the revelations may end in the removal or criminal prosecution of senior officials in the FBI and Department of Justice.
Congressional officials expect the classified memo to be made available to the public before the end of the month. In order to make the classified memo public, the House Intelligence Committee, chaired by California Republican Devin Nunes, must first have another vote, a congressional source stated.
The vote is expected to happen and then the classified memo will be given to “POTUS for five days” so he can review it, the source stated. If POTUS objects to releasing the memo it will then go to the full House for a vote, they added.
President Trump is expected to approve the release of the memo.
Members who viewed the document say it is especially significant since the DOJ’s Inspector General Michale E. Horowitz will be issuing a report into how the FBI and DOJ handled the investigation into former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her use of an unsecured private server to send classified information.
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-FL, who viewed the memo Thursday said they are demanding it be made public but could not discuss the details of the memo due to its classified nature.
Rep. Adam Schiff, D- CA, said in a statement the memo is “profoundly misleading set of talking points drafted by Republican staff attacking the FBI and its handling of the investigation,” he said in a statement to CNN.
The classified memo, however, is expected to expose severe abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which allows the intelligence community to gather communications on foreign subjects. Americans, however, are swept up in the collection of telephone, email and various other communications. The secret court chided the Obama administration in declassified documents when it discovered that one out of every 20 searches seeking upstream Internet data on Americans inside the NSA’s so-called Section 702 database violated the safeguards Obama and his intelligence chiefs vowed to follow in 2011. The Obama administration self disclosed these violations just days before the 2016 presidential election.
The failure of the Obama administration to disclose the extent of the violations earlier amounted to an “institutional lack of candor” and that the improper searches constituted a “very serious Fourth Amendment issue,” according to the court documents that were unsealed April 26, 2017.
The Senate voted 65-34 on Thursday to reauthorize a FISA provision for another six years, allowing the U.S. intelligence community to conduct surveillance on foreign targets.
Correction: Due to an editorial error Rep. Adam Schiff , D-CA, was mislabeled. He is a California Democrat.
When everything is fully exposed, millions are going to discover that their government was the active enemy of the people.
Keep going, Sara! We all need the truth. You’re doing a grand job providing it to us.
they do not need to look since it is the story of their party.
“Members who viewed the document say it is especially significant since the DOJ’s Inspector General Michale E. Horowitz will be issuing a report into how the FBI and DOJ handled the investigation into former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her use of an unsecured private server to send classified information.” Interesting tidbit.
Adam Schiff, R-CA??? He’s a Democrat. Try again, Sara.
Wish you had a news letter Love you; watch Fox only now
Adam Schiff is a Democrat, not Republican. Please correct this.
Sara thank you for your hard work.
Keep up the good work Ms. Carter.
The democrats do not want people ask to them what they think after they read it. CYA is in full play here.
I admire your work, you are a woman with great integrity and I appreciate your honesty and commitment.
if adam Schiff is a Republican, i’m flippin’ Santa Claus
You article id’s Schiff as a Republican.
Sara, do you know who the primary author(s) were of the House Intelligence Committee’s FISA memo? Or who it was signed by? I’m sure Schiff didn’t sign off on it (you have a typo, you list him as R in your article and of course you know he’s a D lol).
Thanks,
David
These Democrats really don’t care about liberty, do they? It is all about trite power. They are no more patriotic than the mafia.
Correction: Rep. Adam Schiff is a Dem, not a Republican.
Adam Schiff is a Democrat not a Republican
Correction: Schiff is a D, not an R.
OK,, So who prepared this memo? That seems to be an omitted and serious point of this journalistic effort.
Thank you for your fine work on this.
Sure would like to have seen it put out yesterday, but w/ budget shutdown going on maybe best to wait a little longer. Still, the modus operandi of Democrats & Obama administration is to use the Gov’t powers against political opponents & anyone not agreeing w/ them (e.g. IRS & Attkisson). BTW, great reporting!
Excellent reporting but “Rep. Adam Schiff, R- CA” is actually a Democrat.
You are doing an amazing job, Sara!
If we can believe that our military families are not getting paid because the Democrats in Congress are trying to “black mail” the setting President in order to supply a large group of illegal immigrants with citizenship (i.e., DACA). Add to this, that the Democrats unwillingness to release documents showing what can be described as massive levels of corruption, by their party. Points at a constitutional Crisis that must be solved using *extraordinary measures.
I believe Nunes, should release all of the documents, to show the level of corruption, to all of the American people, for starters.