Let's talk "Secret Memo."

Courtesy of NBC News:

President Donald Trump is expected to tell the House Intelligence Committee that he does not object to the release of a classified memo about the Russia investigation, a senior White House official said Thursday. 

A decision not to block the memo's release would fly in the face of warnings from law enforcement officials — the FBI has said it has "grave concerns" about the memo's disclosure — as well as Democrats, who contend the memo is designed to distort the federal probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election. 

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, the senior White House official said the White House has had time over the last couple of days to look over the memo "to make sure it doesn’t give away too much in terms of classification." 

"Right now, I think it will be that we tell the Congress, probably tomorrow, that the president is okay with it," the official added, noting that the ultimate public disclosure of the memo is in the hands of Congress. 

So all day journalists have been breathlessly awaiting the release of the memo, only to learn that if it is released it will not be until tomorrow.

If you have been watching any news (Or regularly visiting here.) you likely already know that this memo contains information cherry picked by House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes, and that it is being used to undermine Rod Rosenstein, attack the FBI, and derail the Robert Mueller investigation.

And there was quite a lot of activity concerning the release of this memo yesterday and today.

First there was this:

FBI takes aim at the secret memo drafted by GOP staff of Rep. Nunes... FBI statement: pic.twitter.com/RrNLnvEThE

— Mike Levine (@MLevineReports) January 31, 2018

That is the FBI coming out publicly to say that releasing this memo is a bad idea for the country.

Not typically something you would see the FBI do.

There were also reports that Trump's own FBI Director may quit if this memo is released in defiance of the FBI's wishes:  

Top White House aides are worried FBI Director Christopher Wray could quit if the highly controversial Republican memo alleging the FBI abused its surveillance tools is released, multiple sources with knowledge of the situation tell CNN. 

Wray has made clear he is frustrated that President Donald Trump picked him to lead the FBI after he fired FBI Director James Comey in May, yet his advice on the Nunes memo is being disregarded and cast as part of the purported partisan leadership of the FBI, according to a senior law enforcement official. 

Wray's stance is "raising hell," one source familiar with the matter said.

There were also some reports that Wray was planning to debunk the memo point by point.

And then there was this today from Adam Schiff:

BREAKING: Discovered late tonight that Chairman Nunes made material changes to the memo he sent to White House – changes not approved by the Committee. White House therefore reviewing a document the Committee has not approved for release. pic.twitter.com/llhQK9L7l6

— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) February 1, 2018

Nunes claimed that he only altered some inconsequential things like dates.

Because you know, how often are getting the dates accurate really that important? Sheesh!

Then another odd thing happened.

Remember how after Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe quit and the official reason given was that it had something to do with his work on the Hillary Clinton email investigation?

Well here it is to remind you: 

FBI Director Chris Wray made clear in a message sent to all bureau employees on Monday night that Deputy Director Andrew McCabe's decision to step aside was a result of forthcoming information to be detailed in an inspector general report, according to a copy of his message obtained by NBC News. 

Wray alluded to having seen aspects of the IG's report into the way the FBI handled the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private e-mail server.

Yeah, that's the one!

Well today Junior kind of fucked up that story line as well.

ATTORNEY: Hello?
DON, JR: Hey, it's me. I did it again.
ATTORNEY: JFC.... pic.twitter.com/PdSsBb1TLn

— Eric Schmeltzer (@JustSchmeltzer) February 1, 2018

Talking about the secret memo:

"It was good enough to fire McCabe, no one argues it's factually inaccurate, but now days later they want to protect the names  of those involved in a scandal that was big enough to fire a senior official a month before retirement? They don't deserve a pass on that!"

So much for Eric being the dumb son.

If you ever wondered what it would be like if the Keystone Kops, who also were secret Russian operatives, ran the White House, well now you know. 

Republicans on House Intelligence Committee are planning to defy DOJ and release a classified memo to Donald Trump.

Courtesy of Politico:

Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee are on the verge of defying the Department of Justice and voting to release a classified memo they say will reveal misconduct by senior FBI officials involved in investigating President Donald Trump's campaign. 

POLITICO contacted or reviewed statements by the committee’s 13 Republicans, and found near-unanimous support for making public the memo, which Democrats call a misleading effort to discredit special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Trump’s ties to Russia. 

A vote by the committee — expected as soon as Wednesday — to release the controversial document would put its fate into the hands of President Donald Trump, who has not taken a clear position on its public disclosure. 

The committee sentiment suggests that House Republicans are unfazed by a top Justice Department official’s warning that doing so without first consulting the department would be “extraordinarily reckless,” and underscores the GOP’s determination to shift attention from Russian election influence onto alleged anti-Trump bias among federal Russia investigators.

Keep in mind that this is the same Devin Nunes created document that the House Republicans refuse to allow the FBI to fact check, or let the Senate Intelligence Committee take a peek at, and the one about which a Democratic member of the committee had this to say:

A member of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Jim Hines (D-CT) has read chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) hyped and secretive “Justice Department abuses” memo — and says its contents are far from the bombshell his GOP colleagues claim they are. 

“Having read it,” Himes told MSNBC host Chris Matthews during a Thursday evening interview, “you’d hope that whoever wrote that was a couple of whiskies into the bag.”

So this memo is too secret for even the FBI or the Senate to see, but it is perfectly okay for Donald "Here let me call my friend Vlad" Trump to read on the toilet.

We already know that Trump is going to overreact once he has somebody explain the big words to him, because that is what he does.

If they do give it to Trump, and he starts ranting about it on Twitter, then the Democrats are simply going to have to leak it to the press so that all the rest of us can see it for ourselves.

Because I think we can rest assured that this is most likely another nothing sandwich like that Putin calendar kerfuffle.

Representatives Dianne Feinstein and Adam Schiff send letter to Mark Zuckerburg urging him to investigate Russian bots pushing the #releasethememo campaign.

Sen. Feinstein and Rep. Schiff have sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg and @jack urging them to investigate involvement of Russian bots pushing #releasethememo campaign. Here’s my story about it that they cited: https://t.co/YNufBFfOCR pic.twitter.com/5WaTjKh7PM

— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) January 23, 2018

Good for them.

Since our own Justice Department and the Republicans are currently busy helping the Russians to undermine the FBI and the Mueller investigation, I guess we have to turn to the powers that be behind social media to help protect the American people.

Keep in mind that there is STILL no actual coherent plan from this administration to prevent or deal with the next foreign interference in our election process.