NBC Reporter: Could Be ‘Huge Repercussions’ If Trump’s Declassifying Docs Over Objections of Intel Agencies

President Donald Trump has ordered the declassification of FISA documents and other materials related to the Russia probe. NBC News intelligence and national security reporter Ken Dilanian said today this is “not normal.”

“I’ve never before seen a statement from the White House ordering the declassification of something that the intelligence agencies were not ready to declassify,” he told Steve Kornacki on MTP Daily. “And that’s gonna have huge repercussions, I think.”

Dilanian noted the concern intel agencies may have about the release of sources and methods. And while Trump can “declassify anything he wants,” doing this “potentially over the objection of his own agencies is incredible.”

He also pointed to how the Carter Page FISA application––one of the key documents that Trump ordered declassified––has been the subject of much discussion on Fox News “to show that this investigation is illegitimate.”

Watch above, via MSNBC.

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