https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/408373-former-bush-counsel-backs-trump-decision-to-declassify-russia-documents
Former Bush counsel urges Trump to move ahead on declassifying Russia docs
Former White House Counsel C. Boyden Gray, who served under George H.W. Bush, is urging President Trump to move ahead with declassifying highly sensitive documents connected to the FBI's Russia investigation.
Gray argued during an interview on Hill.TV that Trump should direct Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to release the text messages and documents, including those relating to former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
"The first thing I would do is tell Rosenstein to release the information that the president has asked for and that Rosenstein has apparently helped talked him out of releasing" involving the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), Gray told Hill.TV co-hosts Krystal Ball and Buck Sexton on "Rising."
"What's missing here is what's required by the department's ranks that goes back decades – you have to have for any criminal investigation, you have to have a predicate crime that you're investigating," Gray added.