Threatened with impeachment, FBI Director Wray hands over Russia probe memo to Devin Nunes, Trey Gowdy

We don’t yet know what Nunes and Gowdy discovered by reading the memo, but we do know that Christopher Wray coughed it up quickly – and largely unredacted – after Nunes went on Laura Ingraham’s show last night and vowed to pursue impeachment against Wray if he didn’t turn it over. At issue was a chain of e-mails – known as EC (or Electronic Communication) – in which key FBI figures discussed the origins of the Russia/collusion probe. This document has been under congressional subpoeana since August 2017, yet it wasn’t until February that members of the House Intelligence Committee were allowed to even see the documents because the FBI continued to stonewall the request. And even then, they were only allowed to read the documents, not keep copies, and what they were allowed to see was so heavily redacted as to be virtually useless to the committee members. Nunes continued to demand access to the full, unredacted memo, and the FBI continued to stonewall – until Nunes upped the ante last night, and got results: