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House panel clears release of Democrats’ rebuttal to GOP memo, forcing showdown with Trump

By Karoun Demirjian and Devlin Barrett, washingtonpost.com

The House Intelligence Committee voted unanimously Monday to release a Democratic rebuttal to GOP accusations that the FBI misled a secret surveillance court. President Trump now has five days to decide whether the information will become public.

The vote means the political rancor roiling Congress is likely to continue. Each party has accused the other of misrepresenting sensitive intelligence surrounding the ongoing probe into whether any Trump associates coordinated with Russia to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.

Read more at https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-attacks-schiff-ahead-of-vote-on-democrats-russia-probe-memo/2018/02/05/abf388fc-0a8c-11e8-8b0d-891602206fb7_story.html?undefined=&utm_term=.70720a4c0dbf&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1

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