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The Office of Legal Counsel memo asserting that it was lawful for DNI to withhold whistleblower complaint from Congress, which DOJ put out today & is
dated Sept. 24, is not the real memo that controlled what happened in real time. justice.gov/olc/file/12045…
DOJ has now put out the real OLC memo. @kpolantz identified what was different: the cleaned-up version put out yesterday was missing footnotes 3 and 4
@kpolantz My colleague @ktbenner also points out that DOJ also deleted specific details of the call in the first paragraph in the bowdlerized version it put out yesterday
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