Republican Rep. Paul Gosar Paul Anthony GosarPelosi must go — the House is in dire need of new leadership LWCF modernization: Restoring the promise Trump tweets his people have all left Drudge MORE (Ariz.) said the FBI's surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser detailed in a controversial intelligence memo released Friday "constitutes treason."

Gosar said in a statement that he will co-author a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions Jefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsTrump's policies on refugees are as simple as ABCs Ocasio-Cortez, Velázquez call for convention to decide Puerto Rico status White House officials voted by show of hands on 2018 family separations: report MORE seeking "criminal prosecution against these traitors to our nation," referring to those who authorized the surveillance warrant.

My full statement on the declassified memo: pic.twitter.com/eRo6ugpWQ9 — Rep. Paul Gosar, DDS (@RepGosar) February 2, 2018

The House Intelligence Committee memo, declassified for public release on Friday, claims that a dossier of information alleging ties between President Trump Donald John TrumpHR McMaster says president's policy to withdraw troops from Afghanistan is 'unwise' Cast of 'Parks and Rec' reunite for virtual town hall to address Wisconsin voters Biden says Trump should step down over coronavirus response MORE and Russia "formed an essential part" of the warrant obtained in October 2016 for surveillance on Carter Page. At the time, Page was no longer an adviser to the Trump campaign.

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Gosar zeroed-in on the Republican memo's claim that the surveillance requests to the FBI and Justice Department did not mention that the work of Christopher Steele, the former British spy who compiled the dossier, was funded in part by Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonHillicon Valley: FBI chief says Russia is trying to interfere in election to undermine Biden | Treasury Dept. sanctions Iranian government-backed hackers The Hill's Campaign Report: Arizona shifts towards Biden | Biden prepares for drive-in town hall | New Biden ad targets Latino voters FBI chief says Russia is trying to interfere in election to undermine Biden MORE's campaign and the Democratic National Committee.

"This is third world politics where the official government agencies are used as campaign attack dogs," Gosar said.

The Republican called former director and deputy FBI directors and two former deputy attorney generals "traitors to our nation" for approving the surveillance request of Page and three extensions on the former Trump adviser.

Congressional Republicans are now saying that the memo proves that thethe Justice Department investigation into Russian election meddling, led by special counsel Robert Mueller Robert (Bob) MuellerCNN's Toobin warns McCabe is in 'perilous condition' with emboldened Trump CNN anchor rips Trump over Stone while evoking Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting The Hill's 12:30 Report: New Hampshire fallout MORE, is tainted by political bias in the FBI.

Democrats argue the memo omits key information about the Russia investigation and the surveillance warrant for Page, which the FBI obtained roughly three months after it began a counterintelligence probe looking at the Trump campaign.

They are pushing to release their own memo that they say provides a different picture.

“The premise of the Nunes memo is that the FBI and DOJ corruptly sought a FISA warrant on a former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser, Carter Page, and deliberately misled the court as part of a systematic abuse of the FISA process.

"As the Minority memo makes clear, none of this is true. The FBI had good reason to be concerned about Carter Page and would have been derelict in its responsibility to protect the country had it not sought a FISA warrant," Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee said in a statement.

Applications for the secret surveillance warrants typically involve several layers of authentication. Justice Department lawyers must show probable cause that the target of the surveillance is acting as an agent of a foreign power.