BOOM! POTUS Orders Declassification of FISA and Russian Investigation Documents and Text Messages

President Trump told us declassification would happen on Jan.13, 2018

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President Trump ordered the declassification of various documents and text messages related to the Russia investigation that both the House Intelligence and House Oversight committees have requested.

The order included selective portions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act application on Carter Page and "all FBI reports" prepared in connection with the FISA warrant request, according to a statement Monday from White House press secretary Sarah Sanders.

The President also ordered the Justice Department to release all text messages related to the Russia investigation from former FBI Director James Comey, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, former FBI agent Peter Strzok, former FBI lawyer Lisa Page and Bruce Ohr, a Justice Department official. Trump has singled out all of those individuals in the past with withering criticism, often on Twitter.

"When the President issues such an order, it triggers a declassification review process that is conducted by various agencies within the intelligence community, in conjunction with the White House Counsel, to seek to ensure the safety of America's national security interests. The Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are already working with the Director of National Intelligence to comply with the President's order," a Justice Department spokesperson said in a statement.

A source familiar with the declassification process confirmed that the public release will not happen Monday night.

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Democrats on Capitol Hill immediately decried the order.

Conservatives in the House of Representatives have been outspoken in calling on Trump to declassify materials related to the Russia investigation for weeks, even though they acknowledged they are not sure whether the documents will help or hurt their arguments about improper conduct in the probe.

"We don't know, which is why we need to see them," said Rep. Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican who's a member of the House Freedom Caucus and a leading critic of the Russia probe, when asked last week what he believes the declassified materials will show. "Transparency is a good thing, and the American people need to know what's in there."

Trump's allies on Capitol Hill have for months championed the narrative that the FBI and the Justice Department wrongfully obtained a surveillance order on Page, a Trump campaign foreign policy aide, under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Their main argument focused on memos authored by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, who Republicans believe harbored anti-Trump bias they claim was not fully disclosed in the FISA application or its renewals.

The FBI released redacted versions of the FISA warrant applications in July, which showed that the agency did raise concerns that Page was a target of Russian recruitment and might have been working with the Kremlin. Page has denied the allegations. A footnote also disclosed a political motivation behind the Steele dossier and said the person behind it was likely looking for information to discredit Trump's campaign, but Trump did not order the vast majority of that portion of the October 2016 FISA declassified Monday.