Releasing the Memo

THERE EXISTS, WE ARE TOLD, a top secret four page memo, drafted by a republican congressperson, outlining alleged inappropriate behavior by, among others, the FBI, pertaining to the various investigations into Donald trump's behavior. Several republicans assure us that upon the memo's release, which might be today, wondrous events will transpire/ Among these, perhaps, will be the exoneration of Donald J. Trump from even the mere appearance of any wrongdoing, the incarceration of Hillary Clinton, and, one might hope, the fulfillment of a long standing pledge to "make America great again", if that hasn't already happened. When America was most recently great, and precisely when it stopped being so, has never been articulated, and quite likely won't be. The democrats have their own memo waiting in the wings, with corrections and amendments to the republican version. The republican version is accused of cherry picking and distorting facts so as to make the FBI look guilty of misbehavior, and the FBI insists that the memo's release engenders the ability of the agency to function at full effectiveness. Nonetheless, the president, ever critical of the agency, desires transparency, at the risk of damaging the FBI's reputation. A few folks who have been given an inside look at the document have mentioned that it politicizes an investigative process which should not be in any way politicized, and should instead be conducted with impartiality and objectivity. The cherry picking, it is asserted, has led to faulty conclusions. We shall soon see. And why is this thing being called a "memo"? isn't a memo a note written on a small piece of sticky yellow paper which says something like: "meet Fran 4 lunch", stuck to a computer screen o r refrigerator? This thing is a four page essay, likely full of fabricated nonsense trying to convince a country which largely despises its president that the FBI can't do it job, and that therefore if it finds anything incriminating about the president, its invalid. Out your money of the FBI, not the G.O.P.