the memo was commissioned by the republican house intelligence committee chairman devin yunus. it describes alleges surveillance abuses by f.b.i. and justice department officials looking into the russian affair. investigators are accused of failing to disclose that their probe was partly based on research financed by hillary clinton's campaign republicans claim this shows an teach from bias that the f.b.i. they're calling for the memo to be released there may have been mail fees and at the f.b.i. by certain individuals so it is our job in conducting transparent oversight of the lead of the executive branch to get to the bottom of that sunshine is the best disinfectant and so what we want is all of this information to come out so that transparency can reign supreme and accountability can occur but the f.b.i. has warned against releasing the dancey in a rare public rebuke we have grave concerns about material emissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memos accuracy. for their part democrats claim the memo cherry picks highly classified information in an effort to discredit