From: januarybaybee@gmail.com   
      
   It's always 'fake news, treasonous, or a trap' - according to Trump whenever   
   the media or the Democrats expose his lies or his government's actions.    
      
   Here he is again, having been handed a Democrat-authored memo repudiating   
   (easily) the Nunes memo which was supposed to vindicate Trump and allow him an   
   easy road to firing Mueller.  That didn't quite pan out as expected ......    
      
   Now he has a memo contradicting the events contained in the Nunes memo - and   
   he doesn't want to release it - unless all the most damaging (and likely    
   accurate) parts are redacted or removed entirely.  He says the memo is "a    
   trap" for him and his administration.      
      
   Really?  Can not all the points being made be fact-checked by neutral parties   
   - (including Fox News and Brietbart and Drudge  ???   )  ?  What has to be   
   hidden from the American public that has the potential to "trap" him and his   
   administration ?    
      
   He's afraid of an interview by Mueller.      
   He refuses questions from reporters associated with mainstream media.    
   Now he doesn't want the voters to know what the Democrats have revealed in a   
   contradictory memo?    
      
   Hmmm......... looks the the "paranoia" has much more of a presence in the Oval   
   Office than it has even in North Korea.    
                                                                         
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   The Associated Press Posted: Feb 10, 2018    
      
   Trump accuses Democrats of playing politics with memo    
      
   White House counsel says new memo on Russia probe needs revisions, but    
   Democrats want it released    
      
      
   U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday accused the Democrats of playing    
   politics with classified information, asserting that their memo countering    
   Republican allegations about the conduct of the FBI's Russia probe was a trap    
   meant to "blame the White House for lack of transparency."    
      
   Citing national security concerns, the White House notified the House    
   Intelligence Committee on Friday that the president was "unable" to declassify    
   the Democratic memo.    
      
   White House counsel Don McGahn said in a letter to the committee that the memo   
   contains "numerous properly classified and especially sensitive passages" and   
   asked the committee to revise it with the help of the Justice Department.    
      
   He said Trump was still "inclined" to release the memo in the interest of    
   transparency if revisions are made.    
      
   Trump weighed in with a tweet on Saturday.    
      
   "The Democrats sent a very political and long response memo which they knew,   
   because of sources and methods (and more), would have to be heavily redacted,   
   whereupon they would blame the White House for lack of transparency," he   
   tweeted. The meaning of    
   the "(and more)" was not immediately clear.    
      
   Trump urged the Democrats to "re-do and send back in proper form!"    
      
   The president's rejection of the Democratic memo was in contrast to his    
   enthusiastic embrace of releasing the Republican document, which accuses the   
   FBI and U.S. Justice Department of abusing their surveillance powers in    
   obtaining a secret warrant to monitor former Trump campaign foreign policy    
   adviser Carter Page.    
      
   Even before reading the GOP document, Trump pledged to make it public.  It was   
   published in full a week ago over the objections of the Justice Department.    
      
   The Intelligence Committee's top Democrat, California Rep. Adam Schiff,    
   criticized Trump for treating the two documents differently, saying the    
   president is now seeking revisions by the same committee that produced the    
   original Republican memo.  Still, Schiff said, Democrats "look forward to    
   conferring with the agencies to determine how we can properly inform the    
   American people about the misleading attack on law enforcement by the GOP."    
      
      
   'Desperate pattern of coverup'    
      
   House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California said the move is "part of a    
   dangerous and desperate pattern of coverup on the part of the president."    
   California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary    
   Committee, has read the classified information both memos are based on.  She   
   tweeted that Trump's blocking the memo is "hypocrisy at its worst."    
      
      
   Trump Russia Probe    
      
   The head of the House committee, Rep. Devin Nunes who produced the GOP memo,   
   encouraged Democrats to accept the Justice Department's recommendations and   
   "make the appropriate technical changes and redactions."    
      
   Trump has said the GOP memo "vindicates" him in the ongoing Russia    
   investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller.  But Democrats and    
   Republicans, including House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and Rep. Trey Gowdy,   
   R-S.C., who helped draft the GOP memo, have said it shouldn't be used to   
   undermine the special counsel.    
      
   The House Intelligence Committee voted Monday to release the Democratic memo.   
   Republicans backed the release, but several said they thought it should be   
   redacted.  Ryan also said he thought the Democratic document should be   
   released.    
      
      
   White House says some portions "too sensitive"    
      
   In declining to declassify the document, the White House also sent lawmakers a   
   letter signed by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director    
   Christopher Wray, as well as a marked-up copy of the memo, laying out portions   
   it considers too sensitive to make public.  Among those passages are some that   
   the Justice Departments says could compromise intelligence sources and   
   methods, ongoing    
   investigations and national security if disclosed.    
      
   The White House message caps off a week in which Republicans and Democrats on   
   the committee have publicly fought, with the panel now erecting a wall to   
   separate feuding Republican and Democratic staffers who had long sat side by   
   side.    
      
   The disagreements have escalated over the last year as Democrats have charged   
   that Republicans aren't taking the panel's investigation into Russian election   
   meddling seriously enough. They say the GOP memo is designed as a distraction   
   from the probe,    
   which is looking into whether Trump's campaign was in any way connected to the   
   Russian interference.    
      
   Republicans say they're only alerting the public to what they say is serious    
   misconduct they've uncovered in the FBI and Justice Department.    
      
   Trump declassified the GOP-authored memo over the objections of the FBI, which   
   said it had "grave concerns" about the document's accuracy.    
      
      
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