Committee Votes to Release Democratic Rebuttal to G.O.P. Russia Memo<br />“And I think that’s fair to let them have their say in the public arena.”<br />Mr. Nunes’s three-and-a-half-page memo centered on the F. B.I.’s use of material from<br />a former British spy, Christopher Steele, in the warrant application to spy on Mr.<br />Mr. Steele was researching possible connections between Russia’s election interference and Trump associates, but the memo said that the F. B.I.<br />“We will consider it along the same terms that we considered the Nunes memo — which is to allow for a legal review — national security<br />review — led by the White House Counsel’s Office,” a White House spokesman, Raj Shah, told reporters aboard Air Force One.<br />If Mr. Trump tries to block the Democratic memo’s release, House rules allow Democrats to<br />seek a closed-door vote of the full House of Representatives to override the president.<br />WASHINGTON — The House Intelligence Committee voted unanimously on Monday to make public<br />a classified Democratic memorandum rebutting Republican claims that the F. B.I.<br />Representative Adam B. Schiff of California, the Intelligence Committee’s top<br />Democrat, said the Democrats had already shared their memo with the F. B.I.
