Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Will he want to fire Wray now?

FBI Director Christopher Wray told the White House he opposes release of a classified Republican memo alleging bias at the FBI and Justice Department because it contains inaccurate information and paints a false narrative, according to a person familiar with the matter.

  Bloomberg
And Trump was just overheard last night saying "100%" he'd be releasing the memo, although Sarah Huckabee walked that back. Even John Kelly seemed to give it the go-ahead.
The memo on actions early in the probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 campaign is being reviewed by “our national security lawyers in the White House,” who are “slicing and dicing it,” White House Chief of Staff John Kelly said Wednesday on Fox News Radio. But he left little doubt about the outcome, saying the disputed memo will be released “pretty quick, I think, and the whole world can see it.”

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While the FBI hasn’t publicly opposed release of the memo, the agency said in a statement Wednesday that it has “grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy.”

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The FBI isn’t included in the inter-agency review process led by the White House aimed at deciding whether -- and how much of -- the memo can be made public.
This is an interesting situation. It all hinges on who talks to Trump last when the five days for White House review are up.

 ...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Very interesting. Here's GOP Rep Rick Crawford telling Fox News that Wray and "two of his top staff" saw the memo and said they saw no factual inaccuracies. "They would just prefer that it not be released."

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