Making the GOP memo public will allow journalists and the public to at least partially assess the claims it makes. At the same time, Republicans voted down a Democratic effort to release a memo authored by Democratic staffers that they say combated some of the inaccuracies in the GOP memo. “The ‘release the memo’ crowd, apparently, doesn’t want to release the memo,” Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, told reporters after the vote. The memo the House voted to release Monday reportedly focuses on criticizing Rod Rosenstein, a Republican Trump appointee at the Justice Department who now has responsibility over the Mueller probe. Committee members voted along partisan lines earlier this month to allow any member of Congress to read Nunes’ classified memo.

Source: Huffington Post January 29, 2018 23:43 UTC