The members, led by Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.), are asking Trump to publicly release 20 pages from the FBI’s application to conduct surveillance against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, along with footnotes, omitting only information that would expose intelligence-gathering techniques. They also want the president to make public documents they believe contain exculpatory evidence that was left out of the FBI’s application, which have already been shared with the Gang of Eight, a group of congressional leaders and the head of the intelligence committees that are privy to the most sensitive intelligence.

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Finally, the conservative Republicans want Trump to declassify the “302s,” or official memos, from 12 interviews Justice Department official Bruce Ohr conducted between late 2016 and May 2017 with Christopher Steele, the author of a controversial dossier alleging Trump had various business and personal ties to Russia. Conservative Republicans have charged that the dossier was the entire basis for the surveillance application on Page — a charge federal law enforcement and intelligence officials dispute.

The FBI’s application to surveil Page that is in question was filed in October 2016, and then periodically renewed. Members of the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees interviewed Ohr behind closed doors last month.

The members believe that once declassified, the combined documents will show that the FBI knew, but failed to tell the court, things about the dossier that would have undermined the merits of the application — including that Steele was against Trump’s campaign to be president.

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“Powers were abused, the FISA court was misled, and we have zero tolerance for any of it,” Zeldin said. “The government has a responsibility not only to provide its best evidence in support of its application but also the best evidence it has against its case. In this case, the DOJ failed to do so.”