Yes......but. It seems quite logical to me that Trump has known about all of this ever since Admiral Rogers told him about the 'wiretapping', which caused Trump to move his headquarters the next day. So why, being the street fighter that he is, has he not released things before this?
I believe it's because he realizes that the media response would be a cacophony of the Democrat mantra that "Trump is doing this all to cover up his own Russian collusion". The story would all be about Trump's Russian Collusion, rather than about Obama's treason.
Trump has needed to play his hand close to his vest until the appropriate time. I believe (hope?) the time is nearing. This whole story needs to be portrayed correctly not only front pages, but everywhere else, too, and it needs to go on for months. It needs to go on so long, that convicting Obama, Lynch, and Comey becomes obvious to even the most die hard Democrat partisans. The memo is only a start. The story actually started several weeks ago when the Justice Department Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz began releasing some of the text messages of Strzok and Page, and some other documents. His coming reports and other documents will keep on coming. The whole story needs to keep coming out, but SLOWLY enough to keep it on the front pages for months. In my opinion, that's the only way justice will prevail.
I believe it's because he realizes that the media response would be a cacophony of the Democrat mantra that "Trump is doing this all to cover up his own Russian collusion". The story would all be about Trump's Russian Collusion, rather than about Obama's treason.
Secondly, while it might seem like a good idea for President Trump to declassify the Nunes memo, if given by the Intel Committee, it would not be prudent to do so. Within this classified document Donald Trump is the subject of adverse action outlined therein.
The President was the target of the unlawful action by the DOJ and FBI as reportedly outlined within the Nunes memo. Because the memo contains details of FBI and DOJ surveillance, Donald Trump (now POTUS) is both the victim and the head of law enforcement in charge of investigation the illegal action that created the victim.
In addition to being both the victim and charged with the legal authority over the FBI and DOJ, there are downstream ramifications due to Special Counsel Robert Mueller investigating President Trump for “Obstruction of Justice”.
White House lawyer Don McGahn would clearly instruct Trump (victim) to stay the hell away from this investigation. There is an inherent conflict. Any exceptional action taken by POTUS could be construed as interference, including violations of the separation of powers.
Therefore the best route as constructed by Nunes and Goodlatte would be for the House to vote to declassify, pass on to the Executive for review, then President Trump grants approval for the request of the House (legislative branch).
By law, all attempts by the legislative branch to declassify intelligence information must be given to the executive branch for review in advance of release. This is because the executive branch needs to see if any current intelligence operations might be compromised by information not known to the legislative branch.
The National Security Council and any impacted offices of the intelligence information (CIA, NSA, FBI, DOJ, U.S. DoS, DOD, etc.) review, provide opinion, and sign off prior to executive approval and release.
It is not just this declassification that goes through this process, all declassification goes through this process. In this example, presumably, the President has no adverse reason to block the declassification request and it is likely all approvals will happen quite quickly.
After the White House approves of the HPSCI request, the Memo then becomes public.
That’s when Democrats will attack the memo as being authored and misrepresented by
It will never hit the front pages of ABDNCBS, but it will hit the internet where all the voters get their news.
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Anyone who watched the last 15 minutes of the ABC panel with Stuff Stephy had to be truly outraged at the lying and spinning of dem operatives.They spun and lied about everything they possible could which shows just how desperate the broke dems are getting.Here in Fla. they had to abandon their Fla. headquarters since they ran out of money to pay the rent!!
Only young Meghan McCain was there to counter and she did a lousy job as stuffy knew she would that's why she was there.
They used phony polls to prove their lying suppositions on everything and then compounded it all. These driveby networks are through. Nothing they put forth should be believed until 100% thoroughly vetted.