Democratic gamesmanship
Via Fox News:
The White House on Friday told Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee to redraft their rebuttal to a controversial GOP memo alleging government surveillance abuse during the 2016 campaign, saying sensitive details need to be stripped before it can be made public.
The message was sent to the committee in a Friday letter from White House Counsel Don McGahn.
Earlier this week, the House Intelligence Committee had approved the release of the Democrats’ memo, giving President Trump five days to consider whether he should block publication for national security reasons.
The White House letter, for now, halts the release.
Democrats have been expected to use their memo to try to undermine Republican claims that the FBI and DOJ relied heavily on the anti-Trump dossier to get a warrant to spy on a Trump associate — and omitted key information about the document’s political funding. Democrats claim the GOP memo was misleading.