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You thought the memo drama was over? It's just heating up

WASHINGTON - It is a dubious distinction, but in the Donald Trump era, a single shorthand phrase - "the memo" - now connotes some of the same breathless intrigue, cloak-and-dagger characters and partisan fire of distant political scandals, from Watergate to Whitewater.

Just as those swirling cases took on a life of their own, the high drama over the Republican memo - and the dispute over whether it shows wrongdoing by the FBI and Justice Department - only heated up Monday.

Republicans vowed to keep investigating what they see as anti-Trump bias in the government, Democrats pushed for the release of their own classified document and President Donald Trump tweeted

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