2016 ELECTION/GOP/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A congressional panel voted on Monday [1-29-18] to make public a classified Republican-authored memo that alleges surveillance abuses against an associate of President Donald Trump dating back to the 2016 campaign.
The GOP-led House Intelligence Committee invoked an obscure rule in its effort to release the memo that was drawn from highly classified law-enforcement material and written under the direction of its chairman, Rep. Devin Nunes (R., Calif.), a close ally of Mr. Trump.
People familiar with the memo say it raises concerns about surveillance under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act—specifically how a campaign associate of Mr. Trump’s came to be the target of U.S. spying and whether a dossier of salacious and unverified material was used in part to obtain the warrant.
The four-page document has been made available to all House members for more than a week but many GOP lawmakers have been calling for it to be released to the public—with some who have seen the memo saying that it outlined ‘disturbing’ behavior under the previous administration.”
-Byron Tau, “House Panel Votes to Release GOP Memo on Russia Probe,” The Wall Street Journal online, Jan. 29, 2018 08:43pm