BREAKING: Transcript of House Intel Committee debate on Nunes Memo released
http://docs.house.gov/meetings/IG/IG00/20180129/106822/HMTG-115-IG00-Transcript-20180129.pdf
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THE CHAIRMAN: Do any members wish to be heard?
MR. SCHIFF: Mr. Chairman, I seek permission to address the committee.
THE CHAIRMAN: Yes, Mr. Schiff, you are recognized for 5 minutes.
MR. SCHIFF: Thanks, Mr. Chairman.
I want t.o begin by expressing my alarm at where we are in this committee.
I have served on the committee for 10 years now. This is the first time we have sought to declassify highly sensitive information for a political reason. It is, I think, a terrible line to cross.
The memoranda which the majority will seek to make public today contains any number of misleading representations and factual problems.
The FBI has sought to appear before our committee to have an opportunity to fully inform members of the underlying circumstances and address any concerns that members have before we take the step -- which the Department of Justice has, I think, all too accurately described as extraordinarily reckless -- to publicly release classified information that affects investigative equities and could potentially reveal sources and methods.
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