In December, House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes (R-CA) told Fox News that abuse of government surveillance practices had been uncovered by his investigators. Yesterday the Republicans on that committee voted to make a classified memo regarding FISA abuses available to the entire House. 

A review of a classified document outlining what is described as extensive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuse was made available to all House members Thursday and the revelations could lead to the removal of senior officials in the FBI and Department of Justice, several sources with knowledge of the document stated. These sources say the report is “explosive,” stating they would not be surprised if it leads to the end of Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel investigation into President Trump and his associates.

The House Intelligence Committee passed the motion along party lines Thursday to make the classified report alleging extensive ‘FISA Abuse’ related to the controversial dossier available to all House members.

By last night, #ReleaseTheMemo was trending.

The reactions from members of Congress who read the four-page memo in a secure room is quite revealing.

Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) stated, “I viewed the classified report from House Intel relating to the FBI, FISA abuses, the infamous Russian dossier, and so-called ‘Russian collusion.’ What I saw is absolutely shocking.”

Others took to Twitter to call for the memo to be declassified and released to the public.

I have read the memo. The sickening reality has set in. I no longer hold out hope there is an innocent explanation for the information the public has seen. I have long said it is worse than Watergate. It was #neverTrump & #alwaysHillary. #releasethememo

— Steve King (@SteveKingIA) January 19, 2018

Just read the Intelligence Committee memo. The public has a right to know the information regarding the FBI and the DOJ. #releasethememo https://t.co/KGicKGjqO5

— Raúl R. Labrador (@Raul_Labrador) January 19, 2018

The classified report compiled by House Intelligence is deeply troubling and raises serious questions about the upper echelon of the Obama DOJ and Comey FBI as it relates to the so-called collusion investigation.

— Ron DeSantis (@RepDeSantis) January 18, 2018

While the report is classified as Top Secret, I believe the select committee should, pursuant to House rules, vote to make the report publicly available as soon as possible. This is a matter of national significance and the American people deserve the truth.

— Ron DeSantis (@RepDeSantis) January 18, 2018

Keep in mind, the Obama administration weaponized the DOJ and other agencies against Americans.

Obama’s admin weaponized agencies to target tea parties, armed cartels and suggested it was our own gun laws to blame; WI progressives conducted John Doe raids on innocent progressives — not a stretch to think FISA was also abused to try to impact election.

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) January 19, 2018

We’ve pointed out many times over the last year that this Russia collusion stuff was driven by Hillary, the DNC, and the Obama Administration.

So, will this throw a roadblock into the Mueller collusion investigation? It very well could. Particularly since, as the guys at Powerline point out, Glenn Simpson has admitted in recent weeks (as we now know via the release of his testimony) the following

• Simpson has no idea if any of the info is true.
• Simpson doesn’t know who any of Steele’s sources are.
• Simpson isn’t sure if Fusion GPS was target of Russian disinformation.
• Simpson admitted under oath that, at the urging of his clients (the DNC and Clinton), he went to the press in order to counterbalance Comey’s reopening of the Clinton email investigation in October 2016.

So, how does this tie into the four-page memo? This from Lee Smith at Tablet via Daily Wire is illuminating.

[I]f the FBI and Department of Justice used a piece of opposition research paid for by a political campaign as evidence for a warrant to intercept the communications of a rival campaign—and the questions asked by congressional investigators suggest they did—then we are now living in a very different America than the one that generations of civil libertarians and small-government conservatives alike desired to maintain, and which large majorities in Congress have repeatedly voted for.

I suggest you read it all, and check out this from Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and the information regarding Bruce and Nellie Ohr and their ties to the Steele dossier and Fusion GPS:

Kellyanne Conway also offered her take on the FISA memo:

Kellyanne is correct, Americans distrust the institutions because of the sheer lack of accountability from those who are in positions of real power.

“The document shows a troubling course of conduct and we need to make the document available, so the public can see it,” said a senior government official, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the document. “Once the public sees it, we can hold the people involved accountable in a number of ways.”
The government official said that after reading the document “some of these people should no longer be in the government.”

The document also apparently outlines “several problematic” issues with how FISA warrants were “packaged, and used” state several sources with knowledge of the report.

Hold people accountable? Remember this?

Did Obama's FBI use oppo research from Fusion GPS and dress it up to look like an intelligence document which was submitted to the FISA court in order to spy on the Trump campaign? #ReleaseTheMemo pic.twitter.com/XaosIhyhPf

— Nick Short (@PoliticalShort) January 19, 2018

How about this?

The democrats are Constantly attacking the alleged "secrecy" of the Trump presidency, yet here they are now saying we shouldn't see this memo. #ReleaseTheMemo

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) January 19, 2018

He’s right. Meanwhile, this from Comey didn’t age well.

#ReleaseTheMemo and remember this tweet: pic.twitter.com/aR2G8mxPdC

— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) January 19, 2018

If there are sources and methodologies present in the memo, redact them. Outside of that, I can see no compelling reason as to why this memo shouldn’t be made public.