Byron York: As memo fight rages, critics ask: All this over Carter Page?

Published February 1, 2018 12:25pm ET



As expected, there is a desperate last-minute fight going on over the release of the House Intelligence Committee “FISA abuse” memo. In a statement Wednesday, the FBI expressed “grave concern” over the memo, saying it contained “material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy.”

Committee Chairman Devin Nunes hit back, at first accusing the FBI of making material omissions of its own by withholding information from Congress in the long fight over Trump-Russia documents. Later, Nunes specifically denied the “material omissions” charge, saying, “The memo contains all the relevant facts on FISA abuse.”

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