Discussion: White House Says It Will Review Nunes Memo If House Vote To Release It

[system1]

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[cervantes]

Shah on Monday morning indicated that the White House would also leave the Justice Department out of its review process if the House votes to release the memo.

There are people at DOJ who are quite happy to hear this.

[dommyluc]

Glory be! Who would have ever thought it would be so difficult to release a memo when you control all three branches of government?! Why, you would almost think it was…theater!

[nemo]

Just as a PR matter: why don’t the Democrats have their own internal memo? Why is it always Rs who have the low cunning to cook up whatever stunt is required to dominate the headlines? Why can’t the Ds produce their own ‘secret memo’ in which it’s concluded that Nunes and Ryan are guilty of treason? Why can’t the question of the day become: Are Nunes and Ryan guilty of treason?

(Just off the top of my head. Not advocating this course of action as such.)

[lizzymom]

Like everything about this Maladministration, it would be funny if it weren’t all just so sad…

[mattinpa]

OH FFS. Why don’t they send it on to the White House by REGISTERED LETTER once they vote? That’s the ultimate seal of seriousness and great-big-adult intentions. The sad thing is anyone so lost as to not already have his or her mind made up about this gang will vaguely recall there was some business that made the FBI questionable somehow in all this. It looks ridiculous to us but there are people this works on, like the Nigerian general thing.

[the_loan_arranger]

“The constitutional process as laid out involves the house of representatives, the house intelligence committee and the white house and the president of the United States. The department of justice doesn’t have a role in this process,” he said.

What constitutional process? The Constitution has nothing to say about either the Department of Justice or the House Intelligence Committee. There is no constitutional process involved here.

What we have is a “classified” memo written by well-known White House flunky Devin Nunes that the Republican-controlled House is threatening to vote to “declassify” and that the White House promises to review if the House votes to “declassify” it. This is the first I have heard that the House can vote to declassify specific information. Of course, since the House made it “classified” in the first place, I suppose they can “declassify” it.

[arc_of_the_universe]

"The President will make a determination.”

Good to know that this is in steady hands now.

[steviedee111]

“…the White House will conduct a national security review of the memo to determine whether it should be released to the public.”

Trump will have to sign off the memo is succinct, consise, has clarity, arrives at conclusions using logical, accepted arguments and hews to established National Security protocols for public release.

Oh, wait, never mind...........

[mickeyg]

Today might be a good day for Mueller to slap the cuffs on Carter Page.

[justruss]

As if they have not seen it already. Better theater guys, something plausible. The memo is the worse Deus Ex Machina since “The Stand”.

[centralasiaexpat]

Why not run it by Mueller first?

[steviedee111]

Today might be a good day for Mueller to slap the cuffs on Carter Page.

Before this is done Republicans will be installing a Special Counsel to investigate Mueller.*

*Not snark.

[yskov]

Of course, since the House made it “classified” in the first place, I suppose they can “declassify” it.

But can they declassify all information the memo refers to, even if they declassify the memo itself?

I suspect that some one or two or the several hundred folks who have been given access to the memo has quietly pointed out that releasing it, or more specifically its contents, will actually precipitate some harm or ridicule to the people involved in cooking up and publicizing this scheme. So now one set of actors is trying to walk it back, while another is still screaming to set it free.

[sickneffintired]

WH to review memo created in WH and released through Devin the beotch Nunes in Congress.

And as Mourning Joe pointed out this AM …
Wasn’t the asshole Nunes supposed to be recused from the investigation?
WTF?

[old_curmudgeon]

Although doing so would be completely improper, and possibly illegal.

[steviedee111]

So now one set of actors is trying to walk it back, while another is still screaming to set it free.

Blue. No yel-- Auuuuuuuugh!

[old_curmudgeon]

The president has been said–before the current maladministration–to be the ‘declassifier in chief,’ and as the chief executive there’s some truth in that. But the House cannot declare a document classified. The classified status of the memo in question derives from its citation to classified documents, presumably from the FBI, but perhaps from the CIA and other agencies.

[austin_dave]

There is no way that Devin Nines didn’t rush this over to the White House the moment after it was checked for the inclusion of the word “Trump” in every paragraph.

Trump is a big part of this memo game already.

[birdford]

I am tired of watching really dumb people trying to convince other really dumb people of baseless conspiracies by misinterpreting and misunderstanding facts and assigning conspiracies to unrelated events. We are in real trouble and it won’t be remotely touched by getting Trump out of office.