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Rh agreement and aired for the whole public something that we have been trusted to conduct privately.

And so, again, l reluctantly support doing this. And I would only support disseminating our memo, which is 10 pages, to correct the record on a four-page memo. to the public if the members of our committee vote to release the majority memo. I hope it doesn't happen. I hope we restrict access to just the House.

And I would yield to the ranking member.

MR. SCHIFF: I thank the gentleman for yielding.

I just want to respond to a concern that Mr. Conaway expressed in connection with the motion to release the minority memo to the House. He expressed a concern that he hopes it was written in a way that wouldn't compromise any sources or methods by its disclosure to the House of Representatives in a classified setting.

I share those concerns. I raised those concerns when the majority made a similar motion a week ago that the FBI and Department of Justice be able to read the memo and brief the committee on whether there would be risk posed by dissemination to the House and the likely leaks that would accompany that. That was voted down.

And the majority had no way of knowing prior to the release of its own memo to the House what impact a leak of that memo might have. Similarly, we don‘t have any way of knowing what effect it might have.

This is part of the reason why I would hope that the further step of making either of these memoranda public will be only following a brieﬁng from the Department of Justice and the FBI as to the impact on investigative equities and sources and methods by the release of either or both memoranda.