{"id":179433,"date":"2018-02-10T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T02:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/02\/10\/so-not-a-surprise-15\/"},"modified":"2018-02-10T21:23:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T02:23:00","slug":"so-not-a-surprise-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/02\/10\/so-not-a-surprise-15\/","title":{"rendered":"So Not a Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/feb\/09\/donald-trump-blocks-democrat-nunes-memo-russia\">decided not to release the Democratic answer to the Nunes memo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Donald Trump is blocking the release of the Democrats\u2019 rebuttal to a Republican memo that accused the FBI of a politically biased investigation into the president\u2019s ties to Russia.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Donald McGahn, the White House counsel, released a letter Friday night arguing that disclosure of the Democrats\u2019 memo would \u201ccreate especially significant concerns for the national security and law enforcement interests\u201d and claiming that Trump was \u201cinclined to declassify\u201d the document, but could not at this time due to \u201cclassified and especially sensitive passages\u201d.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Democrats on the House intelligence committee, which is investigating Russian meddling into the US election, authored the new memo, which they said provided context for a four-page memo authored by Republican Devin Nunes, a close ally of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, condemned the White House\u2019s decision to block the Democratic memo on Friday, saying in a statement: \u201cThe President\u2019s double standard when it comes to transparency is appalling. The rationale for releasing the Nunes memo, transparency, vanishes when it could show information that\u2019s harmful to him. Millions of Americans are asking one simple question: what is he hiding?\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, pretty much, Chuck.<\/p>\n<p>You know that Trump would never release the memo without redacting it into uselessness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump decided not to release the Democratic answer to the Nunes memo: Donald Trump is blocking the release of the Democrats\u2019 rebuttal to a Republican memo that accused the FBI of a politically biased investigation into the president\u2019s ties to Russia. Donald McGahn, the White House counsel, released a letter Friday night arguing that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[447,481,374,405,437,501],"class_list":["post-179433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congress","tag-intelligence","tag-politics","tag-presidential-campaign","tag-regulation","tag-secrecy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}