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In a Thursday evening tweet, WikiLeaks posted the following:
#ReleaseTheMemo: Do you know someone who has access to the FISA abuse memo? Send them here: https://wikileaks.org/#submit
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or marked 'memo2018': https://wikileaks.org/donate
UPDATE #1 (1/19/2018 at 12:25 PM Pacific):
Congressman Matt Gaetz released the following statement after reviewing information from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, including a memo held in the Congressional Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) that contained previously-undisclosed information involving the Federal Bureau of Intelligence (FBI) and Department of Justice (DOJ):
"The House must immediately make public the memo prepared by the Intelligence Committee regarding the FBI and the Department of Justice. The facts contained in this memo are jaw-dropping and demand full transparency. There is no higher priority than the release of this information to preserve our democracy." (source)
The following was taken from Real Clear Politics:
REP. MATT GAETZ: Our republic is in jeopardy if we allow this type of a palace coup environment to continue to persist and that’s why I'm one of the members of Congress who will be encouraging today Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes to release the memo. We can have a vote in the Intelligence Committee, a vote in the full House of Representatives.
This is a matter of such importance that I think we need to do it immediately…
Unfortunately, I can't get into the specific details of this Top Secret document, but that is why we have to release it. I don't think it is appropriate for just members of Congress to be horrified by the activities that were undertaken during this endeavor.
If we get this memo into the public square, heads are going to roll at the FBI and the Department of Justice. There is no way everyone keeps their job...
We can never live in a country where this type of thing happens. And particularly, the authentication processes that are laid out in the memo are of such fiction --they are so laughable-- that they would never withstand scrutiny from the public.
What I'm worried about is that the cast of characters identified in the memo are not a group of people that are gone. Many of these people are still in our government. They still wield influence. And that's why we've got to get this information out into the public...
I think there are people who could face criminal consequences as a result of the activities laid out in this memo. It’s easy to see after reading this memo why Senator Grassley and why Senator Graham wanted to refer this matter for criminal prosecution. Laws were broken...
I have every confidence after speaking with Paul Ryan and Devin Nunes that after we go through the right procedures and provide the adequate notifications to the executive branch that we will release this memo. We need the public to continue to call for it.
UPDATE #2 (1/19/2018 at 1:12 PM Pacific):
Here are some tweets sent out by several legislators, government agencies and prominent personalities demanding the FISA abuse memo be released to the public:
UPDATE #3 (1/19/2018 at 1:40 PM Pacific):
President Trump chimed in on the FISA abuse ordeal:
UPDATE #4 (1/19/2018 at 1:53 PM Pacific):
BNL News reported the following:
UPDATE #5 (1/19/2018 at 2:16 PM Pacific):
The Hill published a ridiculous article titled 'Russian Twitter accounts pushing for release of shocking surveillance memo':
"Russian-linked bots on Twitter are pushing for the House Intelligence Committee to release a classified report written by committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.).
"Some Republicans believe the report shows political bias in the FBI and the Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation of possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.
"#ReleaseTheMemo is the top trending hashtag among Twitter accounts believed to be operated by Kremlin-linked groups, according to Hamilton 68, a website which tracks Russian propaganda online."
This is absolutely disgusting disinformation...
Additionally, Twitter has censored the #ReleaseTheMemo hashtag:
UPDATE #6 (1/19/2018 at 2:53 PM Pacific):
Read a FISA court opinion from October of 2016 and later released to the public last Spring.
Here's an article from Circa titled 'Obama intel agency secretly conducted illegal searches on Americans for years':
The National Security Agency under former President Barack Obama routinely violated American privacy protections while scouring through overseas intercepts and failed to disclose the extent of the problems until the final days before Donald Trump was elected president last fall, according to once top-secret documents that chronicle some of the most serious constitutional abuses to date by the U.S. intelligence community.
More than 5 percent, or one out of every 20 searches seeking upstream Internet data on Americans inside the NSA’s so-called Section 702 database violated the safeguards Obama and his intelligence chiefs vowed to follow in 2011, according to one classified internal report reviewed by Circa.
The Obama administration self-disclosed the problems at a closed-door hearing Oct. 26 before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that set off alarm. Trump was elected less than two weeks later.
UPDATE #7 (1/19/2018 at 3:34 PM Pacific):
An anonymous poster shared some good info. See below:
Here’s what’s required for the memo to be released -
Congressman DeSantis (R-FL) confirmed in his press release that House Rule X governs the memo’s release. Rule X of the House Rules allows the select committee to publicly disclose…
Specifically, House Rule (X)(11)(g)(1) determines whether the Intelligence Committee can make the memo public. The Intelligence Committee must take a vote on whether releasing the memo would serve the public interest, subject to the following rules:
1. First, a member of the Intelligence Committee must request a vote
2. Next, within 5 days of that request, the Intelligence Committee must take a vote
3. If the vote passes, the Intelligence Committee may immediately disclose the memo, unless POTUS has requested the memo be secret. (This probably isn’t relevant. If Trump does request it be kept secret, he has 5 days after the Committee’s vote to reaffirm he wants it secret. The Intelligence Committee can then send the matter to the entire House of Representatives. If the House votes to release the memo, then its released despite Trump’s wishes)
Link [Top right of p. 15, under (g)(1)]
*TAKEAWAY*: We should assume no vote has been requested yet, until we hear otherwise. First, we should focus specifically on reaching the 13 Republicans who sit on the Intelligence Committee, politely urging them to request a vote. Pic related shows who they are. Second, we should politely urge these same 13 Republicans to actually vote in favor of releasing the memo once a vote is requested. After all, the rest of Congress probably won’t vote on the memo, unless Trump requests it be kept secret. That said, it’s still very important to reach out to all Congressmen because since they’re helpful in bringing attention to the memo whenever they speak out.
UPDATE #8 (1/20/2018 at 5:03 PM Pacific):
Congressman Dave Joyce writes:
"Great news! Our efforts to #ReleaseTheMemo have been effective and the HPSIC plans to begin the process to release the FBI/FISA/Russia memo. This may take up to 19+ Congressional work days but Americans deserve to know the truth."
