*****BREAKING***** Trump will not approve Dem memo release

[DemocratSinceBirth]

PER MSNBC

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Why am I not surprised?

[GoCubsGo]

21. Because you have been paying attention.

[Tatiana]

2. SOB

***Someone*** has no choice but to leak it...

[Blue_true]

26. Leaking is a crime, plus that will let Trump out of the trap that he has fallen in to. nt

[Adrahil]

3. More evidence that douche-face has something to hide.... NT

[IluvPitties]

4. What is he hiding?

[AJT]

5. Source?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. It's all over MSNBC.

[Poiuyt]

8. CNN

President Trump will not release the Democratic rebuttal to the Republican intelligence memo alleging FBI abuses of its surveillance authority at this time.

Trump has sent the memo back to the House Intelligence Committee for changes.

In a letter to the committee, White House counsel Donald McGahn said, “although the President is inclined to declassify the February 5th memorandum, because the memorandum contains numerous properly classified and especially sensitive passages, he is unable to do so at this time."

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/09/politics/shutdown-latest/index.html

[Brother Buzz]

11. The White House

[unblock]

19. gosh! he wants to approve it, he really, really wants to! but darn the luck it's classified! shucks!

[Poiuyt]

7. What a bastard!

Could he be any more blatant about his contempt for the law? The Dem response must have have cast him in a negative light.

[underthematrix]

9. My take

Link to tweet

[Vinca]

10. Totally expected.

[ooky]

30. Agreed. There was never a reason to believe the dictator would release anything

unfavorable to him.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. I bet he doesn't want the campaign's real relationship

with Carter Page to come out. The FBI had been keeping an eye on Page and his relationships with Russians since about 2012, and he was investigated for possibly being a Russian agent or asset. The Trump campaign said he was just an unpaid covfefe boy who didn't do anything important and nobody even knew him. I think the FISA warrant application will show too clearly for Trump's comfort what Page really was.

[Squinch]

13. Someone explain to me why it is up to him. I know there is some law or policy but I

can't see it.

The FBI cleared the damned thing.

I hope they leak it.

[unblock]

14. this guy is such a comically transparent tyrant.

yet the foxnews crowd can't see the emperor has no clothes (ewwww!)

remember he's supposedly preventing the release of the memo on the basis of national security, after having approved the republican memo over the wailing from in intelligence community about national security implications.


personally, i think it plays better politically for us this way anyway, because of the blatant hypocrisy and self-serving partisanship.

[Different Drummer]

37. "...yet the foxnews crowd can't see the emperor has no clothes (ewwww!)"

Now there's an image I could have done without.

[ProudLib72]

15. That is why we have people like DiFi on our side

The only ones whose opinions really matter on what can or cannot be released are those in intelligence.

[Freethinker65]

16. He is buying time. The WH needs time to write Nunes' next memo

[tblue37]

17. He is so "transparent." (They claimed they realeased the Nunes memo because

they believe in transparency. Yeah, right.)

[Drahthaardogs]

18. LOL...well of course not.

We all knew that.

[Initech]

20. Release the memo!!!!!

[JDC]

22. Of course not. No doubt "due to security reasons"

He is a POS

[mucifer]

23. Malcolm Nance was saying it's better if the dem one isn't released because the repubs would do

what they always do and turn the tables on us saying we put classified intel out there when it was them who did it first and set the new precedent.

[Blue_true]

24. Does not surprise me. He has fallen into a trap.

Can Mueller get ahold of both memos?

[GoCubsGo]

25. Shocking. Just shocking.

[dalton99a]

27. So predictable

[Takket]

28. he's weasling out on the gorunds that it has too much sensitive material..........

funny because he didn't have to think about the sensitive material that the FBI warned him about in the Nunes memo. It is almost as if he only cares about us not know what is in the memo rather than the sensitive material..........

Link to tweet

[SHRED]

40. Now, all of the sudden, they are worried about who sees classified intel?

(as if it has any).

Nevermind Russians in the Oval Office Trump shared with or the 14 aides, including Porter, who view secret briefings on a daily bases without security clearances.

[Docreed2003]

29. Gee...so shocked...

Why would he release information disputing his precious bullshit memo.

[SonofDonald]

31. A certain Mr Schiff will have something to say. n/t

[Greybnk48]

32. If the tables were turned, the repukes

would put their memo right out no matter what. We should release it now.

[pandr32]

33. He is completely a self-serving monster

Nothing nearing presidential in the bloated gas bag anywhere.
Lock him up because he is screwing us all.

[superpatriotman]

34. I say this without hesitation or shame:

This is fucking bullshit

[C_U_L8R]

35. Clearly there is damning info that Trump is hiding

Trump just made another blunder. Let it fester and rot.

[bluestarone]

36. passed the house panel unanimously BUT

tRUMP stops it??? Only ONE WAY to explain this and that is GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY!!!!

[Arazi]

38. Whose got the guts to read it out on the floor?

[Luciferous]

39. I'm not surprised by this

[jimlup]

41. Not surprising because he's a complete partisan

as well as several other expletive deleteds.

[sarcasmo]

42. No shocker, because it contains the truth.