Whitehouse: ‘I Concur with Rep. Schiff’s View that the Nunes Memo Was Sorely Misleading’

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WHITEHOUSE: "Well, I think it’s good news. I’ve been a prosecutor, I’ve obtained wiretaps, I have reviewed the underlying materials, I’m one of the senators that’s been given access. And I concur with representative Schiff’s view that the nunes memo was sorely misleading. So to get out the full story I think will be very helpful. I understand that Chairman Grassley on our side is going to release some unredacted materials tomorrow that should help also shed some additional light, so I hope that that continues to go forward and the White House approves the release. None of that, however, puts the horseback in the barn of a political party on a purely partisan basis against the advice of national security officials being willing to selectively release declassified information. Allies around the world are going to look at that and say, whoops, this is a new risk within the United States that the Congress will get its hands on classified information and they’ll release it for partisan political purposes and it will put our sources and methods at risk, and that is not cured by getting all the information out. That was the original mistake of the nunes memo."