(CNN) – The disputed GOP-Rep. Devin Nunes intelligence memo has been posted on the House Intelligence Committee’s website.
White House spokesman Raj Shah said the document has been transmitted to the minority and majority members in the House Intelligence Committee. The document was also sent to House Speaker Paul Ryan’s office, Shah said.
The White House requested no redactions, Shah said.
Speaking in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump implied the memo revealed political bias at the FBI. He said he believed the purported bias was a “disgrace” and said certain people should be “ashamed of themselves.”
The extraordinary decision to release the classified four-page memo with a never-before-used House Intelligence Committee rule would escalate the partisan fight over the investigations into Russian election meddling and possible collusion. This will likely have major repercussions for the relationship between the Justice Department and Capitol Hill.
The memo’s release would also threaten to further fracture the frayed relationship between the President and his Justice Department and intelligence community, both of which opposed the release of the document, which is based on classified intelligence. The FBI issued a rare public warning on Wednesday that the memo omits key information that could impact its veracity.
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BREAKING: President Trump has authorized the release of a controversial Republican memo, and has sent word to the House Intelligence Committee the document may be made public, a White House official says https://t.co/VwbJxDb6Ut
— CNN (@CNN) February 2, 2018
John McCain: "The latest attacks on the FBI and Department of Justice serve no American interests – no party’s, no president’s, only Putin’s… If we continue to undermine our own rule of law, we are doing Putin’s job for him." pic.twitter.com/uuTABCik9Y
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 2, 2018
AHEM: "any memo based on secret sources that are not shown has little if any value in establishing #facts" https://t.co/uUdVwNyMQr
— John Schindler (@20committee) February 2, 2018
House Intelligence Committee releases memo by acohnthehill on Scribd
Memo actually confirms a timeline not favorable to Trump:
1. Counterintelligence probe opened in July 2016 by FBI because of George P./Wikileaks/emails.
2. FISA application on Carter Page obtained late Oct. 2016, after Page had left Trump campaign.— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) February 2, 2018
Rep. Swalwell on Nunes memo: If they were willing to be so reckless with classified information, why didn't they release McCabe's direct quote from his classified testimony? "Because he didn't say that" https://t.co/FZ8c2WZKeA pic.twitter.com/KhN1qy8pp9
— CNN (@CNN) February 2, 2018
The SVR tried to recruit Carter Page. The FBI has known about this 2013. Why? Because the FBI arrested the SVR recruiters (on a separate issue). Page is "Male-1" in this FBI complaint. To say that Steele's dossier led to Page's surveillance is ridiculous. https://t.co/6YAPDSobOB pic.twitter.com/5vTNQ98BNK
— Michael Weiss (@michaeldweiss) February 2, 2018
Again: It's not about whether Carter Page is detestable. It's that he deserved to be monitored by the FBI regardless of the Steele Dossier, which is why he was on the FBI's radar years before the Dossier was written or Trump ran for president. https://t.co/cciNRWo4dV
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) February 3, 2018
Senator Collins’ statement on the release of the House Intelligence Committee memo: https://t.co/Zy5EDXFoay pic.twitter.com/dy45PW36Gd
— Sen. Susan Collins (@SenatorCollins) February 2, 2018
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