Devin Nunes and FBI are battling it out with stern letters filled with accusatory statements. It’s a passive aggressive nuclear war of rhetoric, folks.
Watch below:
Here’s the statement from the FBI:
The FBI takes seriously its obligations to the FISA Court and its compliance with procedures overseen by career professionals in the Department of Justice and the FBI. We are committed to working with the appropriate oversight entities to ensure the continuing integrity of the FISA process.
With regard to the House Intelligence Committee’s memorandum, the FBI was provided a limited opportunity to review this memo the day before the committee voted to release it. As expressed during our initial review, we have grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy.
Here’s the statement from Nunes:
“Having stonewalled Congress’ demands for information for nearly a year, it’s no surprise to see the FBI and DOJ issue spurious objections to allowing the American people to see information related to surveillance abuses at these agencies. The FBI is intimately familiar with ‘material omissions’ with respect to their presentations to both Congress and the courts, and they are welcome to make public, to the greatest extent possible, all the information they have on these abuses. Regardless, it’s clear that top officials used unverified information in a court document to fuel a counter-intelligence investigation during an American political campaign. Once the truth gets out, we can begin taking steps to ensure our intelligence agencies and courts are never misused like this again.”
Well this should all be resolved tomorrow when they release the memo right? OH wait wait wait…
BREAKING: Discovered late tonight that Chairman Nunes made material changes to the memo he sent to White House – changes not approved by the Committee. White House therefore reviewing a document the Committee has not approved for release. pic.twitter.com/llhQK9L7l6
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) February 1, 2018
OMG we’re in hell, aren’t we? That’s what this is….
UPDATE!!!
NUNES ADMITS THEY EDITED IT.
But they say they were minor edits. And some were actually requested by the Dems.
Responding to Rep. Adam Schiff's statement from earlier tonight, a spokesman for Rep. Devin Nunes says the version of the memo sent to the White House had only "minor edits." pic.twitter.com/CWuRS9vDGe
— 11th Hour (@11thHour) February 1, 2018
Nunes spox responds to Schiff: “In its increasingly strange attempt to thwart publication of the memo, the Committee Minority is now complaining about minor edits to the memo, including grammatical fixes and two edits requested by the FBI and by the Minority themselves.”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) February 1, 2018
A spokesman for Rep Nunes says tonight's accusations about secret edits to the memo are part of an "increasingly strange attempt to thwart publication."
— Chris Megerian (@ChrisMegerian) February 1, 2018
The "minor edits" include "grammatical fixes and two edits requested by the FBI and by the Minority themselves."
Yes, we’re in hell, Sooper.