On Thursday, the House Intelligence Committee quietly voted to make available to fellow House members “a memo documenting abuse of the FISA program,” reports Fox News’ Chad Pergram. With 435 House members, the likelihood of details from the memo leaking are high. And so are the stakes.
Fox is told that while the Intel Cmte voted in favor of the Simpson transcript, Democrats blocked the release of other documents. The committee has also voted on a motion by Rep. Pete King (R-NY) to make available to all House members a memo documenting abuse of the FISA program.
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) January 18, 2018
Washington Examiner‘s Byron York called passage of the motion a “Major development.”
Major development in House Intel Committee *after* vote to release Glenn Simpson transcript. Rep Peter King offered motion to allow all House members to review a brief report summarizing committee investigation into what is called 'FISA abuse.' 1/3
— Byron York (@ByronYork) January 18, 2018
“Motion was approved on party-line vote. Info in report is classified, so report will be available for House members to read in secure room,” York added.
Motion was approved on party-line vote. Info in report is classified, so report will be available for House members to read in secure room. 2/3
— Byron York (@ByronYork) January 18, 2018
Why is the motion passage so important?
“Report contains answer to question of whether FBI/DOJ used Trump dossier to secure FISA warrant to spy on Americans, plus other issues. Now, whole House can know.”
Report contains answer to question of whether FBI/DOJ used Trump dossier to secure FISA warrant to spy on Americans, plus other issues. Now, whole House can know. Public still in dark. 3/3
— Byron York (@ByronYork) January 18, 2018
In addition to passing Rep. Peter King’s motion, House Intelligence Committee members voted unanimously to release the transcript of the panel’s interview with Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson.
House Intelligence Committee has voted to make public transcript of Fusion GPS Glenn Simpson interview concerning Trump dossier.
— Byron York (@ByronYork) January 18, 2018
House Intelligence Committee vote to release Glenn Simpson transcript was unanimous.
— Byron York (@ByronYork) January 18, 2018
As reported by The Gateway Pundit‘s Cristina Laila, Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) recently told fellow Republicans he has seen evidence demonstrating clear “abuse” of government surveillance programs by the Justice Department and FBI.
Nunes revealed back in December that his investigators uncovered evidence of abuse in U.S. government’s surveillance practices.
“I believe there’s evidence that abuses have occurred,” Nunes told Fox News reporter Catherine Herridge regarding the FISA courts and other surveillance practices.
“We have had an ongoing investigation into DOJ and FBI since mid-summer for both FISA abuse and other matters that we can’t get into too much. But it is very concerning.”
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Fox News host Sean Hannity has reported three separate sources confirmed to him the Russia dossier was used to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on the Trump campaign.
