Sentences with phrase «own classified memo»

The House Intelligence Committee is expected to vote Monday on whether to release the Democrats» own classified memo, which purportedly serves as a rebuttal to the Republican memo released late last week.

The ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee says the classified memo was substantially altered.

Sean Hannity, the right - wing Fox News personality, has had regular private conversations with President Donald Trump about a classified memo that Republicans say exposes an anti-Trump conspiracy at the FBI and the Department of Justice (DOJ), according to three sources with knowledge of their conversations who spoke to The Daily Beast.

After weeks of discussions with the Justice Department, Democrats on the House intelligence committee released Saturday a classified memo that counters GOP allegations that the FBI abused U.S. government surveillance powers in its investigation into Russian election interference.

President Donald Trump had no such concerns about an earlier classified memo written by Republicans, which he declassified February 2 over strong objections from the FBI.

A series of dramatic developments in recent days — including the resignation of deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe and a vote by Republicans to publicly release a classified memo allegedly detailing evidence of anti-Trump bias in the FBI and the Justice Department — have renewed concerns that Mueller's investigation could unravel amid Republicans» intensifying criticism.

Yesterday, U.S. President Barack Obama bowed under the pressure, and agreed to make the documents available to the committee (a move that will help to address cries of hypocrisy, since Obama had called for the Bush administration to publish its classified memos relating to torture).

In an embarrassing gaffe, Department for Education permanent secretary Jonathan Slater was photographed inadvertently brandishing a classified memo on the steps of 10 Downing Street.

The House Intelligence Committee voted on Monday to release a classified memo the committee's Republicans compiled on the FBI and its investigation into President Donald Trump.

Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee are on the verge of defying the Department of Justice and voting to release a classified memo they say will reveal misconduct by senior FBI officials involved in investigating Trump's 2016 campaign.

Brushing aside opposition from the Justice Department, Republicans on the House intelligence committee voted to release a classified memo that purports to show improper use of surveillance by the FBI and the Justice Department in the Russia investigation.

Orin Kerr had comments cited about the lack of constitutional precedent for Congress and President Donald Trump to release a classified memo.

Orin Kerr had comments cited about the release of a classified memo by Congress and President Donald Trump.

Orin Kerr had comments cited about the questionable legal claim behind the release of a classified memo by Congress and President Donald Trump.

Not exact matches

A White House official told Business Insider on Tuesday that «we don't know» whether the information in the memo Comey gave to his friend was classified.

Comey last year created a series of contemporaneous memos — some classified, some not — to document his interactions with Trump.

Both the FBI and DOJ strongly oppose releasing the memo, saying there are significant inaccuracies and the potential for classified information to be compromised.

Comey told congressional lawmakers a month later that the memo he passed to his colleague contained no classified information.

The House Intelligence Committee on Saturday released a classified Democratic memo rebutting GOP claims that the FBI inappropriately spied on an adviser to President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign.

Four of the seven memos are considered classified and he gave four to a friend to leak the information to the media.

He has attacked former FBI Director James Comey for releasing memos he claims are classified, and briefly blocked a Democratic memo from the House Intelligence Committee over its inclusion of classified information, yet he grandstands against redactions insisted upon by his own Justice Department.)

President Trump regularly accuses former FBI Director James B. Comey of leaking classified information when — through a friend — he passed a memo to...

He also suggested Comey leaked classified information in the memos.

The Justice Department's inspector general is reportedly looking into Comey's handling of the memos, and the information contained in two of them is now considered classified.

«Dishonest and misleading memo wrecked the House intel committee, destroyed trust with Intelligence Community, damaged relationship with FISA court, and inexcusably exposed classified investigation of an American citizen.»

In a letter sent late Friday to Rep. Devin Nunes (R - CA), the chair of the House Intelligence Committee and the author of the GOP memo, White House counsel Don McGahn writes that «although the President is inclined to declassify the February 5th Memorandum, because the Memorandum contains numerous properly classified and especially sensitive passages, he is unable to do so at this time.»

Releasing the memo, which was rumored before its release to discuss classified information in depth, fulfills a demand by Trump supporters and many Republicans (and, allegedly, Trump himself).

Schiff has compiled his objections to the Nunes memo into another classified document — let's call it the Schiff memo.

Most of what we know about the first Nunes memo, which has been circulated around the House of Representatives but remains classified, comes from press accounts of its contents.

«Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told special counsel Robert Mueller in a classified August 2, 2017, memo that he should investigate allegations that President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was «colluding with Russian government officials» to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, prosecutors in the Russia probe revealed late Monday night.

If approved, the memo becomes public knowledge and is no longer classified.

Two weeks after Trump blocked the full release of a classified Democratic memo, the House intelligence committee published a redacted version of the document that aims to counter a narrative that Republicans on the committee have promoted for months — that the FBI and Justice Department conspired against Trump as they investigated his ties to Russia.

I am simply answering the question why some of the information in the memo has made it classified.

Apart from the FISA delegitimization, it seems that the documents the memo is based on are top secret, so the memo is classified like that as well to avoid accidental leakage of information.

I am also not saying that the names should have remained classified after the memo was declassified.

It was the FBI / Justice department that classified the information in the memo, not the committee.

The president today probably will approve release of a classified Republican memo on alleged FBI abuses in the Russia probe, despite FBI Director Christopher Wray's strong objections, a senior administration official said.

«The Republican rationale for releasing the memo's classified contents raises more troubling questions than it answers, including potentially revealing classified sources and methods.»

The three - and - a-half-page memo, written by Republican congressional aides, criticized information used by law enforcement officials in their application for a warrant to wiretap the former campaign adviser, Carter Page, and named the senior F.B.I. and Justice Department officials who approved the highly classified application.

Rep. Elise Stefanik, who sits on the House Intelligence Committee, voted in favor of releasing a classified intelligence memo on Monday.

WASHINGTON, D.C. Rep. Elise Stefanik has voted in favor of releasing a classified intelligence memo that purportedly contains evidence of improper surveillance usage by the FBI and Department of Justice in the probe into Russian election tampering.

Nationals from Mali and Ivory Coast are being monitored carefully, according to a classified security memo leaked to the media recently.

Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd has said the memo draws on classified information and it would be «extraordinarily reckless» to release it.

The evidence is clear that, during his confirmation hearings, Mr. Bybee misused the classified status of his torture memos to portray a false picture of his legal history.

Specifically, on Thursday, January 18, 2018, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) Majority voted to allow Members of the U.S. House of Representatives to review a misleading talking points «memo» authored by Republican staff that selectively references and distorts highly classified information.

Wray unsuccessfully fought to block the release of a classified Republican memo accusing the FBI of abusing its surveillance powers in the Russia probe - a document Trump wanted aired.