FBI/HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House intelligence committee’s top Democrat charged Republicans late Wednesday [1-31-18] with sending the White House ‘an altered version’ of a classified memo alleging misconduct by the FBI in its probe of a former campaign adviser to President Donald Trump.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) made the accusation against Republicans on the intelligence panel as Trump is said to be weighing a release of the politically incendiary memo as soon as Thursday. But the GOP quickly pushed back, accusing the minority of ‘complaining about minor edits’ and asserting that Democrats sought two of the changes at issue…
The memo that Republicans on the House intelligence panel voted earlier this week to release contains information sensitive enough to prompt a rare public statement earlier Wednesday from the FBI, which registered ‘grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy.’
The memo is believed to make the case that the FBI overstepped the bounds of the foreign intelligence surveillance program known as FISA in the course of monitoring Carter Page, a former Trump campaign aide with ties to Russia.
The earliest chance for the intelligence panel to meet once again and vote on releasing the changed version of the memo is Monday, Schiff wrote in his letter to Nunes, describing the previously undisclosed change as ‘deeply troubling.’ “
-Elana Schor, “Schiff accuses GOP of secret changes to memo before sending it to Trump,” Politico, Feb. 1, 2018 12:02am