Rep. Eric Swalwell
Eric Michael SwalwellMSNBC analyst to Dem rep: Has Nunes been compromised by the Russians? The Hill's 12:30 Report The Hill's 12:30 Report MORE (D-Calif.) on Sunday blasted a GOP colleague on the House Intelligence Committee for failing to disclose key information related to the recently released controversial memo.
Swalwell said he does not know why Rep. Chris Stewart
Christopher (Chris) Douglas StewartTop Intel Dem: Lewandowski refused to answer questions in testimony House headed for cliffhanger vote on NSA surveillance Week ahead: House jumps into national monuments fight MORE (R-Utah) and other Republicans on the panel are hiding context for the memo's claim that the Department of Justice (DOJ) abused critical surveillance authorities during the 2016 campaign.
The Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign funded some of the research underlying the warrant, a key point that the memo says was withheld from a judge when seeking the warrant.
According to Democrats, authorities did tell the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that information included in the warrant request came from a politically motivated source. Democrats also say the politically motivated research, known as the Steele dossier, was not key to the application for the warrant to spy on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
"There was a barrage of evidence that they presented to the court including a disclosure that the Steele dossier had a political motivation," Swalwell said on "Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace."
Swalwell said Republicans are not accurately quoting a transcript of their December interview with former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe
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“Deputy Director McCabe testified before the Committee in December 2017 that no surveillance warrant would have been sought from the FISC without the Steele dossier information,” the memo claims.
Democrats dispute that is what McCabe said in his testimony, which occurred behind closed doors. The transcript has not been released.
"Well I asked Andy McCabe, that is not what he said. They have the transcript. I don’t understand why they wouldn't quote from the transcript. They did disclose it was a politically motivated source, that is what the judge needed to know," Swalwell continued on Fox.
Stewart, who was part of the Fox interview, maintained that the memo's claims were accurate. He said he would've been "furious" if he was the judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that granted the warrant and this information was withheld from him.
"It clearly is relevant. It clearly is important," Stewart said.