Today the President determined that the Democrat response to the Republican HPSCI memo could not be properly declassified and released to the public as written.
The letter from White House Counsel Don McGahn to the HPSCI Chairman Devin Nunes was released today. The unclassified letter offered the Executive Branch’s assistance to the HPSCI Minority in making revisions which would allow public release of the minority’s memo.
The process of rewording classified information to permit the information to be released to the public is called “sanitizing.”
Sanitizing is a very common practice, and when done honestly and diligently by knowledgeable, skillful writers, their desired message can be conveyed without revealing sensitive national security information.