# Are these the basics of the "Memo" story?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-the-basics-of-the-memo-story/808054>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [February 2, 2018, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-the-basics-of-the-memo-story/808054 "2018-02-02T18:23:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2018, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-the-basics-of-the-memo-story/808054/101 "2018-02-07T22:07:13Z")

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Cite the second: [Text From 2016 Shows Obama’s Interest in FBI Employees’ Work - WSJ](https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/texts-from-2016-show-fbi-employees-preparing-obama-briefing-on-russia-1518036629)

“Text messages from 2016 show preparation to brief Barack Obama about Russia’s interference in that year’s election, according to associates of the FBI employees involved in the exchange, not, as a Republican senator suggested, meddling by the then-president in the federal Hillary Clinton email investigation.”

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2018, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-the-basics-of-the-memo-story/808054/102 "2018-02-08T01:12:03Z")

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Just goes to show you don’t need to have a lot on the ball to be a Committee Chairman.

I think I’m going to start calling him Senator Alex Jones.

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**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2018, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-the-basics-of-the-memo-story/808054/103 "2018-02-10T13:39:19Z")

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Trump blocks release of Democratic rebuttal memo citing “National Security”. Does anyone (even Trump supporters) believe that is the real reason?

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