Trump just blasted the Democrats' top Nunes memo foe as 'one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington'


President Trump blasted House Intelligence Committee ranking member Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) as "one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington" on Monday, dimming hopes that a classified Democratic rebuttal to the so-called Nunes memo might get released:
The Nunes memo, compiled for committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), was released last Friday after Republican members voted for its declassification and likewise blocked the release of a Democratic memo. Now, though, some of the same Republicans plus House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) have suggested they are in favor of releasing the Democratic memo.
The four-page Nunes memo purports to show that the FBI improperly omitted the political origins of a dossier used to obtain a FISA warrant to surveil former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. The Democratic memo reportedly shoots those assertions down.
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"This doesn't bode well for declassification of the Democratic memo," tweeted Politico's Kyle Cheney in response to Trump's tweet. "If [Trump] disapproves, it would force the House into a full, closed session to override him."
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