Republicans Release the Nunes Memo to the Fury of Democrats
President Trump authorized the release of the unredacted memorandum over strident objections from top law-enforcement officials, as Democrats blasted it as deliberately misleading.
This article was updated on Friday, February 2 at 3:20 pm.
The House Intelligence Committee released a controversial four-page memo on Friday written by its chair, Devin Nunes, outlining alleged surveillance abuses carried out by the Justice Department, marking the end of a weeks-long battle over the document between House Republicans, Democrats, and the Department of Justice.
President Trump sent the memo back to the House to release on Friday after directing his lawyers and national-security staff to assess the document. Trump cleared its release over the objections of his deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, and FBI Director Chris Wray.
The White House reportedly rejected FBI and DOJ requests to redact some of the information in
