Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd sent a letter to lapdog Devin Nunes today reminding him of some of the finer points of law.
"We believe it would be extraordinarily reckless for the Committee to disclose such information publicly without giving the Department and the FBI the opportunity to review the memorandum and to advise the [committee] of the risk of harm to national security and to ongoing investigations that could come from the public release," a top Justice Department official wrote in a letter today to Rep. Devin Nunes, R-California. "Indeed, we do not understand why the Committee would possibly seek to disclose classified and law enforcement sensitive information without first consulting with the relevant members of the Intelligence Community.”
The letter, posted here by CNN, went on to warn that release of the memo could “damage national security”, and denying any wrongdoing that it alledges by the FBI.
Not that Nunes gives a rip about national security, he supports a Putin Puppet in the Presidency.
The Intel committee will likely use this letter to not release the memo, so they can continue to distort the info it is based on as fodder for their right wing base, and pump up conspiracy theories even more.