Devin Nunes' Anti-FBI Memo Names James Comey, Rod Rosenstein, and Andrew McCabe

[DonViejo]

The Department of Justice called the plan to release it to the public ‘extraordinarily reckless.’

BETSY WOODRUFF
SPENCER ACKERMAN

01.24.18 5:57 PM ET
A controversial Republican memo alleging surveillance abuse specifically names FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein along with former FBI Director James Comey.

Capitol Hill sources on both sides of the aisle say the memo’s release is only a matter of time. And when it comes out, these current and former officials — all GOP bêtes noires — are likely to face even more criticism from the right over their involvement in FBI counterintelligence work.

Republicans, including Trump himself, have spent months attacking McCabe and Comey while special counsel Robert Mueller has been investigating Team Trump’s connections to the Kremlin. Rosenstein put that probe in place—a move Trump has derided as a witch hunt.

A groundswell is building to release the memo—written by Devin Nunes, the California Republican and key Trump ally who chairs the House intelligence committee—which former FBI agents fear will damage public trust in the bureau. While Democrats say the memo deliberately misrepresents the procedures for obtaining a foreign-intelligence surveillance warrant, The Daily Beast has learned that Hill Republicans are gearing up to use an obscure parliamentary rule to release it.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/doj-warns-that-releasethememo-would-be-extraordinarily-reckless?ref=home

[gordianot]

1. The It dont matter meme also works in reverse.

At this point it don’t matter dust off old accusations and call it new.

[NewJeffCT]

2. Comey, Rosenstein and McCabe

so, a Republican in Nunes is calling out three fellow Republicans?

[underpants]

3. Very good article. Why do I suspect that this memo will read like

a made-for-Facebook opening rant by Jeanine Pirro on Fox News?

[Docreed2003]

4. I hope they do release the memo

If only to show what a hack Nunes really is. This is a guy who’s writing a memo about classified programs who’s inner workings of which he’s not even privileged to know the details. This memo will be little more that misconstrued and manipulated tin foil hat bullshit.

[blueinredohio]

5. Isn't that strange the same people Trump doesn't like are mentioned in the "memo"?

[oasis]

6. Is Devin "Cloak and Dagger" Nunes doing anything to benefit his district?

Why should his constituents even consider reelection of this half baked Machiavellian?

[Skraxx]

7. This Entire Memo thing is because THEY WERE ALL UNDER FISA SURVEILLANCE

Probably since before the election. Mueller has much of the illegal activity on tape and they are freaking out. This "memo" is a gambit to delegitimize the FISA surveillance of their activities.

[maxsolomon]

8. Bullshit Counternarratives & Character Assassination.

They're throwing mud to see what sticks to the wall.