UPDATE 2:
UPDATE: The Department of Justice has written to Chairmen Goodlatte, Gowdy, and Nunes explaining it is sending both redacted and unredacted versions of Comey's memos to Congress. The redacted versions were included with the letter.
From CNN's National Security, Congress, and Russia reporter:
The Justice Department Just Sent The Comey Memos To Congress (BuzzFeed News)
The Daily Beast reveals the Department of Justice will hand over former FBI Director James Comey's memos to Congress either today or tomorrow.
Comey's memos are contemporaneous notes of his interactions with President Trump, kept due to concerns the president might lie about those interactions in the future.
On Wednesday, three GOP House chairmen—Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte, Oversight Chairman Trey Gowdy, and Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes—suggested they would subpoena the Justice Department to obtain the memos as part of their probe of the FBI’s 2016 investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails.
Comey tells CNN's Jake Tapper the DOJ releasing his notes to Congress is fine by him. He says he has no views on it other than believing in transparency, He says his story has been consistent from the beginning.
Comey confirms there are between five and 10 memos and some are classified, but he does not know how many. Comey says a number of conversations he had with the president he considered classified at the time so he cannot reveal what the classified memos written about those conversations may concern.
A few journalists, lawmakers, and former government officials weighed in on the DOJ decision, worried about the precedent releasing the memos sets and concerned about what may come next from House Republicans working to undermine the Russia investigation.
“The Deputy Attorney General should be aware that no matter what he gives to these members of Congress, it will never be enough,” Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, told me this morning. “The point is to create a conflict with the Justice Department that would give the president grounds to get rid of Mueller or Rosenstein. They don’t care what damage they do to our institutions to protect the president.”
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