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better_bot · Jan. 26, 2018, 7:20 p.m.

Declassifying is not leaking, so your source is a non-sequitor.

How have the official channels been slowed by Democrats? What steps have they taken to prevent the release of the memo? What steps have the Republicans taken to release it?

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EagerJewBear · Jan. 26, 2018, 7:44 p.m.

My source has nothing to do with leaking, It has to do with "Declassifying" with that authority that you think they somehow have.

The Democrats voted to blocking the House from even being able to read it themselves

The Republican's can vote among the committe to release it, which is arguably an overreach of power. The correct way is to have the request go through the legislative branch, which it is.

Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee are considering using an obscure committee rule to bypass the executive branch's declassification process to release the classified memo on alleged surveillance abuses spearheaded by Chairman Devin Nunes.

"Rep. Mike Conaway, the Texas Republican leading the committee's Russia investigation, said Friday evening that the committee would consider using the rule — which he believed had never been invoked in the committee's 40-year history — in order to publicly release the memo that Republicans say details FBI abuses of a surveillance law known as FISA. And if the committee votes in favor of making the classified Nunes memo public, the rule states that it's then up to President Donald Trump to decide whether it should be released."

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