The documents to be declassified included one section of the initial 2017 FISA application against Carter Page, as well as some of the FBI's notes taken during interviews with Page and Bruce Ohr, having mostly to do with the Steele dossier.
Leading congressional Democrats are looking to stall the process to release documents related to the Russia investigation, which President Donald Trump ordered declassified on Monday.
The Democrats argue that Trump's action is a "Brazen abuse of power" aimed at undermining the special counsel's investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government.
The curious part of all this is that some of the people who have been screaming the most loudly about transparency are now suddenly the people who are concerned about protecting sources and methods or compromising the investigation.
If there were any other people involved in connecting the dots to come up with Page and Ohr's names, their identities can be redacted easily enough.
I've been seeing analysts on CNN commenting on how this request could somehow undercut the Special Counsel or the investigation itself.
The senior Democrats involved in this have been poo-pooing the idea that there was something improper going on in relation to the origins of the investigations into Ohr and Page, as well as the Steele dossier.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/09/20/huh-democrats-really-dont-want-carter-page-fisa-docs-released/
Leading congressional Democrats are looking to stall the process to release documents related to the Russia investigation, which President Donald Trump ordered declassified on Monday.
The Democrats argue that Trump's action is a "Brazen abuse of power" aimed at undermining the special counsel's investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government.
The curious part of all this is that some of the people who have been screaming the most loudly about transparency are now suddenly the people who are concerned about protecting sources and methods or compromising the investigation.
If there were any other people involved in connecting the dots to come up with Page and Ohr's names, their identities can be redacted easily enough.
I've been seeing analysts on CNN commenting on how this request could somehow undercut the Special Counsel or the investigation itself.
The senior Democrats involved in this have been poo-pooing the idea that there was something improper going on in relation to the origins of the investigations into Ohr and Page, as well as the Steele dossier.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/09/20/huh-democrats-really-dont-want-carter-page-fisa-docs-released/
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