DEMS/INTELLIGENCE/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House signaled Sunday [2-11-18] that a classified Democratic memo it blocked last week could see the light of day soon, after changes are made to address concerns raised by Justice Department officials.
The comments from a senior administration official came as Democrats said they were open to making changes to the document, which aims to rebut a Republican memo that alleges the Justice Department relied heavily on information paid for by Democrats to get a surveillance warrant on an onetime associate of President Donald Trump…
The White House had indicated it was inclined to release the memo, but top officials at the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation last week identified passages in the Democratic document that they said contained information about intelligence techniques or other sensitive material. The White House cited these findings on Friday in declining to release the memo but said it would review a revised document that addressed the concerns…
The White House’s Mr. Short said the administration asked House Democrats to revise and resubmit the memo, rather than making its own redactions, to avoid accusations that the White House was taking its editing pen to the document.”
-Yuka Hayashi, “White House Says Democratic Memo Likely to Be Released if Changes Made,” The Wall Street Journal online, Feb. 11, 2018 05:39pm