2016 ELECTION/CATER PAGE/DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE: “The House Intelligence Committee on Monday [2-5-18] voted unanimously to release a classified Democratic memo that defends the federal investigation into a Trump campaign associate, a move that gives the White House five days to allow or reject its disclosure.
Democrats wrote the 10-page memo as a response to a Republican document released last week that details how the federal government got a warrant to conduct surveillance on Carter Page, a foreign-policy adviser to the Trump campaign during the 2016 election.
That GOP document suggested possible partisan motives by investigators in targeting Mr. Page, who left the campaign a month before prosecutors applied for the warrant in October 2016. Democrats said the GOP memo was an attempt to discredit a wide-ranging Justice Department probe into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign, an investigation that is also looking into potential obstruction of justice by the president and his aides… The White House approved the release of the GOP document on Friday, and will now review the Democrats’ document and decide whether it should be released, as well as identify any redactions.”
-Byron Tau and Rebecca Ballhaus, “House Panel Agrees to Release Democratic Memo on Surveillance of Trump Associate,” The Wall Street Journal online, Feb. 5, 2018 11:11pm