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Friday on CNN’s “Wolf,” host Wolf Blitzer harangued Rep. Chris Stewart (R-UT), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, for releasing the much-anticipated FISA memo and doing so not at the same time as the Democratic Party minority memo, so

TEL AVIV — A four-page House Intelligence Committee memo released on Friday alleging abuse of surveillance authority may warrant a review of previous testimony in which former FBI Director James B. Comey admitted that he pushed back against a request from President Donald Trump to possibly investigate the origins claims made in the infamous anti-Trump dossier.

A four-page House Intelligence Committee memo alleging abuse of surveillance authority raises immediate questions about former FBI Director James Comey’s role in utilizing the infamous, largely discredited 35-page anti-Trump dossier to obtain a FISA court warrant to monitor an individual associated with Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

The FISA memo is out. Read it.

Reporters questioned the president after Democrats protested the release of the memo but neither he nor his chief of staff John Kelly would respond to questions about whether the White House would allow its public release.

Wednesday on Fox Business Network’s “Lou Dobbs Tonight,” Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC), the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, dismissed pushback from the FBI, which has expressed “grave concern” about the release of a memo by the House Intelligence Committee

President Trump told a member of Congress he would release the memo detailing abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) by senior Justice Department and FBI officials investigating his campaign.

Christopher Steele, the ex-British spy who authored the Trump dossier, also gave the FBI a “second dossier,” written by a former journalist “who was close to the Clinton White House in the 1990s” as corroboration for the first.

TEL AVIV — Carter Page, a former foreign policy adviser to President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, praised the House Intelligence Committee’s decision on Monday evening to release a classified memo purportedly revealing government surveillance abuses under the Obama administration.

The House Intelligence Committee voted Monday to release a memo detailing alleged abuse by senior Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigations officials in their investigation of the Trump campaign.

During a statement on Monday, House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Adam Schiff (D-CA) reacted to the Intelligence Committee’s decision to release a surveillance memo by stating the vote “put the president’s personal interest, perhaps their own political interest, above the

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein approved an application to extend surveillance of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page shortly after taking office last spring, according to the New York Times.

The House Intelligence Committee could vote Monday to release a classified memo detailing FBI abuse in its investigation of the Trump campaign.

The classified House Intelligence Committee could vote on releasing a classified memo detailing FBI abuse related to its investigation of the Trump campaign as early as next week, according to a Republican congressman and two sources.

American accounts inside the United States — not Russian “bots” — led to the trending of hashtag #ReleaseTheMemo, according to a report.

JERUSALEM — Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, repeatedly asked the co-founder of the controversial opposition research firm Fusion GPS for recommendations on whom to subpoena in the Congressional probe of unsubstantiated collusion between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

Members of the House on Thursday said they viewed a “shocking” classified memo allegedly detailing abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) by senior Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigations officials in relation to the investigation of the Trump campaign and called for it to be declassified and available to the public immediately.

A showdown between the White House and Congress exploded with the appearance of former White House Chief Strategist Stephen K. Bannon in front of one of the committees conducting a Russia probe on Tuesday.

Michael Schmidt writes in the New York Times that former Breitbart News executive chairman Steve Bannon testified Tuesday before the House Intelligence Committee and has also received a subpoena to testify before the grand jury assembled by special counsel Robert Mueller.

The Justice Department has agreed to make documents and eight senior officials available to the House Intelligence Committee for interviews this month, according to the committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA).

In a letter on Thursday to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, House intelligence committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) blasted the Justice Department for not fully producing documents related to the Trump dossier, subpoenaed by the committee four months ago.

The House Intelligence Committee has asked the former CEO of President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, Stephen K. Bannon, to appear before them for an interview as part of their ongoing investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) has launched a parallel investigation into corruption by Obama Justice Department and FBI officials during the election against the Trump campaign, according to reports.

Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe is being interviewed Thursday by the House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform committees, as they hone in on whether political bias tainted the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign.

The top Democrat on the House intelligence committee, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), continued to argue there is evidence the Trump campaign colluded with Russia already out there in public, in his efforts to keep the special counsel going.

The top Democrat on the House intelligence committee Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) went on a Tweetstorm on Friday afternoon, saying he was “increasingly worried” that Republicans would shut down the committee’s probe at the end of the month.

The House Ethics Committee concluded its investigation of Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) Thursday, clearing him of all misconduct when he revealed surveillance and “unmasking” of Donald Trump’s transition team.

Obama’s National Security Council leaked information about Erik Prince after they put him under “illegal” surveillance during a foreign trip, according to testimony Prince gave the House Intelligence Committee.

The House intelligence committee will begin writing a resolution Tuesday to cite top FBI and Justice Department officials in contempt of Congress after they missed a Monday deadline to turn over documents.

President Donald Trump disparaged the FBI after reports uncovered investigator Peter Strzok’s bias against the president and for Hillary Clinton.

House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) has instructed committee staff to prepare to cite the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in contempt of Congress after the agency failed to turn over documents explaining why agent Peter Strzok had been removed from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

The senior counsel for the House intelligence committee is urging lawmakers to seek a contempt of Congress citation against the FBI and Justice Department for not turning over requested documents related to the Trump dossier, according to Fox News.

Democrats have gone silent on the Trump dossier in recent weeks, as Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee have begun to find out more information about it.

Recently filed court documents revealed that Fusion GPS, the firm that produced the Trump dossier, paid three journalists who reported on Russia issues, and the House intelligence committee is trying to find out why.

House Republicans announced a joint investigation into the sale of Uranium One to a Russian company under the Obama administration.

Fusion GPS — the firm behind the Trump dossier — filed an injunction in a D.C. court on Friday to quash a subpoena for its financial records, according to a source familiar with the investigation.