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So How Explosive Is The Memo Trump Just Declassified?<\/b>
\nUS President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0on Friday approved the declassification of a Republican-authored memo said to allege wrongdoing at the Department of Justice and FBI
\nRelease was widely seen as a move intended to undermine special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s investigation into Trump\u2019s campaign
\nNonetheless, it\u2019s an unprecedented decision – and comes as the Mueller investigation zeroes in on key figures in Trump\u2019s inner circle
\nFBI \u2015 headed by a Trump appointee \u2015 previously said it had \u201cgrave concerns about material omissions of fact\u00a0that fundamentally impact the memo\u2019s accuracy\u201d
\nRepublicans have hyped the memo\u2019s release for weeks, calling it \u201cworse than Watergate,\u201d while Democrats and the FBI have warned that the document omits key context and that making it public could damage national security and further undermine the public\u2019s faith in the nation\u2019s premier law enforcement organisations.<\/p>\n

But the four-page document, which was drafted by Republican staffers in the office of House Intelligence Committee chairman and Trump transition team member Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), reveals little new information.<\/p>\n

Its authors focus on complaints of liberal bias among mostly Republican law enforcement officials, while omitting information that does not fit their narrative.<\/p>\n

The resulting document is boring and tendentious, and it\u2019s hard to understand why Republicans were so excited to get it out and why the FBI and Democrats were so determined to keep it secret. It\u2019s such a dud that it was probably more valuable to Republicans when it was still a secret document.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s it? Dishonest and misleading memo wrecked the House intel committee, destroyed trust with Intelligence Community, damaged relationship with FISA court, and inexcusably exposed classified investigation of an American citizen. For what? DOJ & FBI must keep doing their jobs.<\/p>\n

February 2, 2018
\nSome things the Nunes Memo does not explain away: 1) The hack of DNC servers by 2 Russian intelligence agencies 2) George Papadopoulos’s contacts with the Russians 3) Michael Flynn’s negotiations with the Russian ambassador 4) the Trump Tower meeting 5) Firing Comey<\/p>\n

February 2, 2018
\nNEW: Statement from the FBI Agents Association sent out just after the Nunes memo was released pic.twitter.com\/TCi9ycBh8J<\/a>
\nThe lacklustre contents of the memo gives more credence to the theory, reported first by the Washington Post, that Trump\u2019s move to declassify was designed as a political play vital to his desire to make changes at the Justice Department.<\/p>\n

These changes include pushing out Rod Rosenstein, who is overseeing Robert Mueller\u2019s Russia investigation.\u00a0But the firing of both, Democrats have said, would represent a \u201cconstitutional crisis\u201d.<\/p>\n

For now, the memo is already being reported by conservative media in America not for its contents but for the reaction\u00a0the decision has created. Fox News is using the hashtag #MemoDay.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, the unprecedented move signals once more that Trump is not a US president who plays by the rules.<\/p>\n

PS.\u00a0There\u2019s now also an interesting discussion in how this whole episode acts as proof for how Fox News and other conservative media in America are driving the country towards \u201ca constitutional crisis\u201d.
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\nwww.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/entry\/trumps-declassified-doj-memo-attacks-muellers-fbi-probe-huffpost-verdict_uk_5a74987ae4b01ce33eb267df<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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