{"id":31359,"date":"2018-02-06T13:38:16","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T21:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31359"},"modified":"2018-02-06T13:38:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T21:38:16","slug":"the-schiff-memo-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/06\/the-schiff-memo-next\/","title":{"rendered":"The Schiff Memo Next?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The five day clock is ticking.  An accurate memo covering the events surrounding Carter Page’s participation into Trump’s Russian conspiracy is waiting for Trump’s authorization to release.  He has five days to decide.  I look forward to reading it, but I doubt that I’ll get the chance anytime soon.<\/font><\/p>\n

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The House Intelligence Committee voted unanimously on Monday to make public a classified Democratic memorandum rebutting Republican claims that the F.B.I. and the Justice Department had abused their powers to wiretap a former Trump campaign official, setting up a possible clash with President Trump.<\/p>\n

The vote gives Mr. Trump five days to review the Democratic memo and determine whether he will try to block its release. A decision to stop it could lead to an ugly standoff between the president, his top law enforcement and intelligence advisers and Democrats on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump vocally supported the release of the Republicans\u2019 memo<\/a> last week, declassifying its contents on Friday over the objections of Democrats and his own F.B.I., which issued a rare public statement to warn that it had \u201cgrave concerns\u201d about the memo\u2019s accuracy. On Saturday, he claimed, incorrectly, that the memo \u201ctotally vindicates\u201d<\/a> him in the continuing investigation into Russia\u2019s interference in the 2016 election.<\/p>\n

The 10-page Democratic document is certain to be less flattering to his case. Democrats have said the memo corrects mischaracterizations by the Republicans and adds crucial context to actions by the F.B.I. and the Justice Department in obtaining a secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order to wiretap the former Trump aide, Carter Page, in October 2016.<\/p>\n

If Mr. Trump tries to block the Democratic memo\u2019s release, House rules allow Democrats to seek a closed-door vote of the full House of Representatives to override the president. With some Republicans now arguing for its release, there is a possibility that the House could override the president\u2019s decision in a rare rebuke to his authority…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Rachel Maddow<\/a> explained the situation in her usual thorough way.<\/font><\/p>\n