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Rh The problem is your staff isn't in any position to be able to vet our memo or your own for the equities of the investigation and sources and methods. Neither of our staffs is in that position. That is precisely why we have asked the FBI and the Department of Justice to do that.

We can wait a week. I understand the political stratagem. You want your memo to be out there for a week and the public to have only one version for a week so you can set the narrative. That makes this political exercise all the more transparent.

Your staff isn't going to be able to tell you anything about whether your memo or ours could compromise sources and methods, and you are preventing the people who could from being able to speak.

And so let's be honest about what is happening here. This is obviously a Member-canvassed stratagem that was decided before this hearing. "Well, we can't very well prevent the minority; that would look bad. We are calling for transparency. God, we had the whole release-the-memo campaign. How will it look if we don't want to release the Democratic memo? Will that hashtag come boomeranging around on us? Well, okay, maybe the best we can do is delay theirs so that we can get out and set the agenda."

I mean, is that really where we are now? The majority is going to vote to release classified information without it being vetted, even though the Department says that is extraordinarily reckless. Each one of you, to a person, castigated Clinton, Secretary Clinton, for being extremely careless with emails, and now you are going to be extraordinarily reckless with this? I don’t know how you reconcile that.

But you certainly can't reconcile it by saying that you are going to get