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| A Republican-drafted memo alleging FBI bias against US President Donald Trump will be released on Friday, a senior White House official says. | A Republican-drafted memo alleging FBI bias against US President Donald Trump will be released on Friday, a senior White House official says. |
| Mr Trump is expected to declassify the document and send it to Congress for release, according to US media. | Mr Trump is expected to declassify the document and send it to Congress for release, according to US media. |
| The FBI has voiced "grave concerns" about the release of the memo, which is expected to have redactions. | The FBI has voiced "grave concerns" about the release of the memo, which is expected to have redactions. |
| It reportedly says the FBI misled an intelligence court to obtain a warrant to spy on the Trump election campaign. | It reportedly says the FBI misled an intelligence court to obtain a warrant to spy on the Trump election campaign. |
| The four-page document was compiled by staffers for House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes, a member of Mr Trump's Republican party. | The four-page document was compiled by staffers for House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes, a member of Mr Trump's Republican party. |
| Congressional Democratic leaders called on Thursday for Mr Nunes' immediate removal as head of the panel. | Congressional Democratic leaders called on Thursday for Mr Nunes' immediate removal as head of the panel. |
| They accused him of trying to discredit a federal inquiry into possible collusion between President Trump's presidential campaign and Russia. | |
| What does the memo say? | |
| It reportedly accuses the FBI and justice department of misleading a judge in March last year while seeking to extend a surveillance warrant against Carter Page, who was a foreign policy adviser to the 2016 Trump election campaign. | |
| The memo is said to argue that the FBI and justice department did not tell the judge that some of their justification for the warrant relied on a much-disputed Trump-Russia dossier. | |
| It was financed in part through the campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to dig up dirt on Mr Trump, and compiled by former a British intelligence agent. | |
| Unnamed sources told Reuters news agency the Republican memo is misleading because all the dossier excerpts used in the FBI warrant application were independently confirmed by US intelligence. | |
| Mr Page, the former Trump adviser, testified before a congressional committee last November that he met Russian government officials during a trip to Moscow in July 2016. |