The White House on Friday night declined to release the memo prepared by Democratic members on the House Intelligence Committee
In a letter transmitted to the committee late Friday, the White House counsel Donald McGahn said though President Trump was “inclined to declassify” he won’t be doing so because of national security reasons.
In the letter to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., McGahn said Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein were involved in the review of the 10-page memo.
The three officials “identified portions” of the memo that if disclosed, they said “would create especially significant concerns for the national security and law enforcement interests.”
The memo “contains numerous properly classified and especially sensitive passages,” and thus Trump will not declassify it, McGahn’s letter reads. However, McGahn wrote that the president has directed the Justice Department to give “technically assistance” to the committee if they decide they want to “revise” the memo to “mitigate the risks identified.”
“The president encourages the committee to undertake these efforts,” McGahn wrote, adding the White House is ready to look review any new draft offered in the future.
BREAKING: the white house does not declassify the democratic memo pic.twitter.com/C7stAGfmUo
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JUST IN: Trump blocks release of Democratic memo https://t.co/i1UQ9Wwo85 pic.twitter.com/otRGJGKdUD
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