Four page memo

Here is the four-page House Intelligence Committee memo, accompanied by a two-page cover letter from White House counsel:

Cover Letter page 1/2

Cover Letter page 2/2

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) memo page 1/4
HPSCI memo page 2/4
HPSCI memo page 3/4
HPSCI memo page 4/4
The word/abbreviation crossed out at the top and bottom of each page is "TOP SECRET/NOFORN" meaning no foreign nationals are allowed to read it.

This did NOT come from the two jimmied-open file cabinets sold by the used furniture store in Canberra.

Addendum:  Dahlia Lithwick, one of the few liberals whose opinions I value, if not necessarily agree with or treasure for their predictive validity, weighed in on the "meaning" of the memo with a fence-straddling "don't say I didn't warn you" hands-thrown-up-in-the-air response on Slate.com.  Here is her last paragraph, appended only for the picturesque "turkey in a prom dress" twist on lipstick applied to a pig, a much smarter and oppo-friendlier snub than Jim Comey's smarmy dismissal.

We have arrived at the moment in our re-living of Watergate, in which truly the only thing that can tilt the country from business-as-usual mode into holy-shit-constitutional-crisis mode is whether any one dot on this pointillist moving masterpiece of insanity can focus the mind and public attention enough to break through. If you are asking yourself whether this is the “break the glass” moment, that answer depends on predictable and coherent responses to outcomes. The dismissal of Mueller is one of them. The madcap weirdness of the Nunes memo is another, even if it’s dressed up like a turkey in a prom dress. If the real, real long game here is to create just enough chaos and distraction to lead citizens to wonder whether this last action represents the death of constitutional democracy, this latest act is a big win from House Republicans and Donald Trump. Robert Mueller is just fractionally less safe than he was on Thursday, the country is fractionally less confident in the independence and efficacy of the national intelligence apparatus, and everyone is slightly more baffled that something as stupid as the Nunes memo serves to achieve those ends. In a Zeno’s paradox of constitutional meltdown, another nothing just inched us closer to a really big something. But nobody knows if we will ever get there.

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