2016 ELECTION/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/PAUL RYAN: “House Speaker Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) defended Tuesday [1-30-18] the GOP decision to make public a classified Republican-authored memo that alleges surveillance abuses against an associate of President Donald Trump dating to the 2016 campaign…
The GOP-led House Intelligence Committee voted Monday night to release the memo, which 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. The four-page document has been made available to all House members for more than a week, but many GOP lawmakers had been calling for it to be released to the public.
The matter now goes to Mr. Trump, who has five days to decide whether to object to the release of the material. If he does, the full House of Representatives can override his decision. If he doesn’t object, the material will be released.
White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said Tuesday that Mr. Trump plans to meet with his national security team and White House counsel Don McGahn to review the memo. Mr. Gidley said he didn’t have a timetable on when the president might make a decision on whether to release the memo to the public.”
-Kristina Peterson and Byron Tau, “Paul Ryan Defends Vote to Release GOP Surveillance Memo,” The Wall Street Journal online, Jan. 30, 2018 02:29pm