Following President Trump's block (due to sources and methods needing to be redacted), and Rep Adam Schiff's admission that the Democratic Party memo (rebuttal of the GOP memo) also needed to be redacted further, House Intelligence Committee Democrats have released their memo countering the GOP document that alleged surveillance abuses in the Justice Department and FBI. The Democratic countermemo, which is published in entirety at the bottom, claims to "correct the record" on what the Democrats say is a "transparent effort to undermine" the FBI and Justice Department, as well as the Russia investigations, on the part of the committee's GOP members. In the memo, the House Intel Democrats claims that: "FBI and DOJ officials did not "abuse" the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) process, omit material information, or subvert this vital tool to spy on the Trump campaign. In fact, DOJ and the FBI would have been remiss in their duty to protect the country had they not sought a FISA warrant and repeated renewals to conduct temporary surveillance of Carter Page, someone the FBI assessed to be an agent of the Russian government. DOJ met the rigor, transparency, and evidentiary basis needed to meet FISA's probable cause requirement, by demonstrating: contemporaneous evidence of Russia's election interference; concerning Russian links and outreach to Trump campaign officials; Page's history with Russian intelligence; and Page's suspicious activities in 2016, including in Moscow. The memo's key counterarguments are as follows: The Steele Dossier was not the catalyst for launching the Trump-Russia probe The rationale for surveilling Carter Page was carefully weighed. The Nunes memo used classified information selectively and included distortions and misrepresentations Papadopoulos’ role as the original catalyst for the Trump-Russia investigation outlined. DOJ’s FISA application was carefully vetted and wasn’t used to spy on Trump or his campaign Steele’s information about Page’s contacts with Kremlin insiders like Sechin was consistent with Papadopoulos information Moments after the memo's release, the White House issued a statement saying "while the democrats' memorandum attempts to undercut the president politically, the president supported its release in the interest of transparency." Here is the full White House Response to the House Intelligence Committees release of the minority's memorandum, from Sarah Sanders: While the Democrats' memorandum attempts to undercut the President politically, the President supported its release in the interest of transparency. Nevertheless, this politically driven document fails to answer serious concerns raised by the Majority's memorandum about the use of partisan opposition research from one candidate, loaded with uncorroborated allegations, as a basis to ask a court to approve surveillance of a former associate of another candidate, at the height of a presidential campaign. As the Majority's memorandum stated: the FISA judge was never informed that Hillary Clinton and the DNC funded the dossier that was a basis for the Department of Justice's FISA application. In addition, the Minority's memo fails to even address the fact that the Deputy FBI Director told the Committee that had it not been for the dossier: no surveillance order would have been sought. As the President has long stated, neither he nor his campaign ever colluded with a foreign power during the 2016 election: and nothing in today's memo counters that fact." - Sarah Sanders: White House Press Secretary Full Democratic Rebuttal Memo below: