President Trump says he’s looking forward to speaking with special counsel Robert Mueller in regard to the Russia investigation. Also, a top Justice Department official is urging House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes not to release a much-hyped memo circulating in Congress that is said to reveal government surveillance abuses. All of this, while the search is on for thousands of text messages between two anti-Trump FBI staffers that went missing during a critical time in the Russia probe and Congress is now investigating.
A top Justice Department official is urging House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes not to release a much-buzzed-about memo circulating in Congress that purportedly reveals government surveillance abuses.
In the letter, which Fox News has obtained, Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd wrote, “We believe it would be extraordinarily reckless for the Committee to disclose such information publicly without giving the Department and the FBI the opportunity to review the memorandum and to advise the HPSCI of the risk of harm to national security and to ongoing investigations that could come from public release.”
Boyd continued, “Though we are currently unaware of any wrongdoing relating to the FISA process, we agree that any abuse of that system cannot be tolerated.”