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The House Intelligence Committee has voted to publish the memo authored by the Democrats challenging last week's majority report about the FBI and DOJ abuses of surveillance powers to spy on Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
On Monday evening,
the committee voted unanimously to release the Democrats' memo and sent it to the White House for final approval, following the same path the document commissioned by chairman Devin Nunes (R-California) took last week.
Democrats voted against that memorandum's publication.
The Nunes memo accused the senior FBI and Justice Department officials of obtaining a FISA warrant to spy on a Trump campaign staffer chiefly on the basis of the dodgy dossier authored by British ex-spy Christopher Steele and paid for by Hillary Clinton's campaign, without disclosing the political bias behind it.
"Did we catch them in the act or what?" Trump told a crowd in Ohio on Monday, hinting at the memo's fallout in Washington.
The rebuttal memo was written by ranking member Adam Schiff (D-California), who has accused Nunes of "cherry-picking" information in his document and tried to prevent its publication.
Schiff's memo was approved for distribution to House members last Monday, and
has attracted more interest from Republicans than Democrats so far.
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