DEMS/FBI/GOP/INTELLIGENCE: “The White House is inclined to approve the release of a classified Democratic memo that rebuts Republican allegations of abuse by the FBI in its application to monitor a former Trump campaign aide, according to a person familiar with the matter.
John Kelly, White House chief of staff, said earlier this week that he told the lawyers reviewing the document to ‘get back to me’ by the end of Thursday with their recommendation on whether President Donald Trump should release the memo. Mr. Kelly suggested then that redactions could be necessary, saying the document was ‘not as clean’ as a Republican memo released the week before.
White House deputy press secretary Raj Shah said Thursday that the review process was ‘ongoing.’
An administration official said a declassification decision by the president was expected on Friday.”
-Rebecca Ballhaus and Byron Tau, “White House Favors Releasing Democratic Memo,” The Wall Street Journal online, Feb. 9, 2018 01:39pm