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- Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, has accused his Republican counterpart Devin Nunes of altering a controversial secret GOP memo after Republicans voted to release it, and sending the modified version to the White House for review.
- The memo in question accuses the FBI and Justice Department of improperly surveilling a Trump campaign adviser during the 2016 election, and follows a Republican-led effort to expose anti-Trump bias at the FBI and DOJ.
- The White House had five days to decide whether to publish the memo after the committee voted on Monday to release it.
- Schiff asserted that the modified memo delivered to the White House includes “material changes” other committee members were not informed of, and had no opportunity to approve.
Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, accused chairman Devin Nunes of modifying a controversial Republican memo that accuses the FBI and Justice Department of improperly surveilling a Trump campaign adviser during the 2016 election.
House Intel Committee Republicans voted on Monday to release that memo, despite Justice Department warnings that such a move would be “extraordinarily reckless” because of questions over its accuracy.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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