The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee is dismissing a memo about the Russia election probe that has been declassified by Democrats. The White House says a Democratic memo rebutting GOP claims of surveillance abuses in the FBI’s Russia investigation fails to answer serious questions. In response to the Democratic memo, Page calls it “misinformation” and “the latest smear campaign” by Democratic Party loyalists. The declassified Democratic memo seeks to dispute a main contention from a declassified GOP memo released earlier this month. Trump claims the GOP memo “vindicates” him in the ongoing Russia investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller, though other Republicans have disagreed.

Source: National Post February 24, 2018 22:06 UTC