In a strange turn of events, Stephen Boyd, the Asst. Attorney General of the United States in the Dept. of Justice, urged Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) not to release the classified memo that is rocking Congress over alleged abuses by the FISA Court during the Trump campaign. In a letter to the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Boyd said, “We believe it would be extraordinarily reckless for the Committee to disclose such information publicly without giving the Department and the FBI the opportunity to review the memorandum and to advise the HPSCI of the risk of harm to national security and to ongoing investigations that could come from public release.” 
 
This comes as Congressmen with access to the memo have expressed their public shock at the contents of the classified memo, which details abuses related to illegitimate surveillance of President Trump’s 2016 campaign and transition. Boyd, who was confirmed by the Senate to his post in August, worked previously for Attorney General Jeff Sessions in his Senate office and has extensive ties to elected Alabama Republicans. Yet, he currently oversees the Office of Legislative Affairs, and reports to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who initiated the Special Counsel’s investigation. 
 
Boyd claims in his letter that releasing the memo would betray intelligence gathering techniques and damage national security, as well as faith in the rule of law. However, if the findings of the House Committee that drafted the memo are valid, they will have forfeited that trust, as the mechanisms of intelligence gathering will have been used for partisan ends in a way that is incompatible with a free people and their government. The bottom line is that elements within the Justice Department, either from Obama holdovers or recent Trump appointees, are more concerned with saving face in the swamp than exposing its misdeeds.

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