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Read: Democrats’ response to the Nunes memo was just released

Here’s the full text of the Schiff memo, with some redactions.

Andrew Prokop
Andrew Prokop is a senior politics correspondent at Vox, covering the White House, elections, and political scandals and investigations. He’s worked at Vox since the site’s launch in 2014, and before that, he worked as a research assistant at the New Yorker’s Washington, DC, bureau.

Earlier this month, Republicans released the Nunes memo, which alleged improprieties in the Department of Justice and the FBI’s surveillance of former Trump adviser Carter Page. But Democrats on the committee led by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said the memo was misleading, and put together their own memo in response.

Now, after a back-and-forth with the Trump administration, Democrats finally got permission to release their own memo in response, with some redactions. You can read the memo below, or at this link.

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