It’s about time. After suffering mostly in silence as Republican political hacks and Fox state TV threw one wacky allegation after another in their direction, after President Donald Trump slurred and demeaned FBI employees, after Attorney General Jeff Sessions failed to muster the courage to rebut baseless accusations against prosecutors and the FBI, and after a United States senator laughably accused the FBI of harboring a “secret society” (note to Wisconsin: You can do much better than Republican Sen. Ron Johnson) the professionals at the Justice Department decided they had endured quite enough.
“The Justice Department warned Wednesday that it ‘would be extraordinarily reckless’ for the House intelligence Committee to release a classified memo publicly ‘without giving the Department and the FBI the opportunity to review the memorandum,’ and to ‘advise’ on possible harm to national security and ongoing investigations from its public release.