House Intel Committee votes unanimously to send Democratic rebuttal memo to Trump

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday morning.A source with direct knowledge of the matter said at a Monday business meeting to release their memo.

Democrats on Sunday sharpened their rhetoric in the clash over the investigation into Trump campaign links to Russian Federation, warning the president that firing top law enforcement officials could “lead to a confrontation we do not need in America”.

“After weeks of crying “Release the Memo”, Republicans and Mr Trump look likely to prevent the release of Democratic rebuttal drafted by Adam Schiff, who has also seen the underlying intelligence”, said Ken Gude, a senior fellow at the Centre for American Progress.

Last month, 91 percent of Republicans said they had a “great deal” or “some” confidence in the country’s law enforcement agencies, compared with the 75 percent who expressed a similar level of confidence in the Trump administration and 47 percent who said the same about Congress.

GOP members said the Democratic memo needed to go through the same process as theirs, with some time for other members to review it and for the document to be vetted and “scrubbed”. Mark Warner, D-Va., former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. On a conference call after the memo’s release, Mr. Rivkin called the lack of disclosure about Democratic funding “enormously consequential”. North Korea leader Kim Jong Un is “Little Rocket Man”, a Tennessee senator is “Liddle’ Bob Corker”, and a Florida senator and 2016 Republican rival of Trump’s is “Little Marco” Rubio. The Nunes memo alleges that the Federal Bureau of Investigation knew of the partisan agenda behind the dossier but did not tell the surveillance court.

Campbell served as a special assistant to former FBI Director James Comey, who Trump fired previous year.

His probe focuses not only on whether the Trump campaign coordinated with Russian Federation but also on whether the president sought to obstruct justice.

Republicans say a judge should have known that “political actors” were involved in allegations that led the Justice Department to believe Page might be an agent of a foreign power – an accusation he has consistently and strenuously denied.

Democrats had wanted their document to be released with the GOP memo on Friday.

On Saturday, Nadler circulated a memo to House Democrats disputing the conclusions of the Nunes memo and arguing that Page was a lawful target of surveillance, according to NBC News.

“The memo indicates. this investigation didn’t begin with Carter Page”. A Justice Department attorney then vets the applications for verification. It discusses how the FISA warrants to target Page were based largely on information from a list of unproven allegations about Trump that were compiled by a former British intelligence agent paid by Democrats.

President Richard Nixon’s unprecedented misuse of federal resources to spy on political and activist groups 40 years ago prompted the creation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which requires federal agencies to obtain warrants for investigations involving US citizens. The president declared himself “vindicated” by the memo in regard to the investigation. Tom Toomey of Florida and Peter King of NY.

He said it’s time for the various investigations into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election and possible collusion with the Trump campaign to “come to a conclusion already”.

“You do long-term damage to these institutions if you convince a large swath of the American public that they can’t be trusted”, Vladeck said.