The release of a heavily-redacted version of the FBI's application for a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to wiretap onetime Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page has spurred calls to remove the redactions, to un-black out the pages blacked out by the FBI before the document was made public.
Which is why House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes - the man most responsible for bringing the application to light in the first place - is asking President Trump to declassify the rest of the warrant application.
While the lawmakers support maximum declassification, they also gave the president another option: declassify two key sections of the application that Republicans believe are particularly revealing.
"To enable the public to understand the DOJ's and FBI's basis for obtaining the FISA warrant and three subsequent renewals," the lawmakers wrote, "We respectfully request that you declassify and release publicly, and in unredacted form, pages 10-12 and 17-34, along with all associated footnotes, of the third renewal of the FISA application on Mr. Page. The renewal was filed in June 2017 and signed by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein."
So what is on pages 10-12 and 17-34? That is certainly a tantalizing clue dropped by the House Intel members, but it's not clear what it means.
Comparing the relevant sections from the initial FISA application, in October 2016, and the third renewal, in June 2017, much appears the same, but in pages 10-12 of the third renewal there is a slightly different headline - "The Russian Government's Coordinated Efforts to Influence the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election" - plus a footnote, seven lines long, that was not in the original application.
Clearly, the GOP lawmakers believe pages 10-12 and 17-34 contain critical information, so it seems likely that the release of those pages would affect the current public debate over the FISA application.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/byron-york-house-intel-asks-trump-to-declassify-rest-of-fisa-application
Which is why House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes - the man most responsible for bringing the application to light in the first place - is asking President Trump to declassify the rest of the warrant application.
While the lawmakers support maximum declassification, they also gave the president another option: declassify two key sections of the application that Republicans believe are particularly revealing.
"To enable the public to understand the DOJ's and FBI's basis for obtaining the FISA warrant and three subsequent renewals," the lawmakers wrote, "We respectfully request that you declassify and release publicly, and in unredacted form, pages 10-12 and 17-34, along with all associated footnotes, of the third renewal of the FISA application on Mr. Page. The renewal was filed in June 2017 and signed by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein."
So what is on pages 10-12 and 17-34? That is certainly a tantalizing clue dropped by the House Intel members, but it's not clear what it means.
Comparing the relevant sections from the initial FISA application, in October 2016, and the third renewal, in June 2017, much appears the same, but in pages 10-12 of the third renewal there is a slightly different headline - "The Russian Government's Coordinated Efforts to Influence the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election" - plus a footnote, seven lines long, that was not in the original application.
Clearly, the GOP lawmakers believe pages 10-12 and 17-34 contain critical information, so it seems likely that the release of those pages would affect the current public debate over the FISA application.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/byron-york-house-intel-asks-trump-to-declassify-rest-of-fisa-application
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