Donald Trump seems determined to release a Republican-doctored memo that accuses the FBI and Justice Department of abusing their authority by investigating Russian influence over Trump's presidential campaign.

The memo was produced by House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, a Republican from California.  But the top Democrat on that Committee Rep. Adam Schiff says Nunes has been playing a shell game:  The version of the memo shared with lawmakers on the committee is not the same as the one Nunes sent to the White House.

"This evening the Committee Minority discovered that the classified memorandum shared by the Committee Majority with the White House is not, in fact, the same document that Members of the House of Representatives have been reviewing since January 18, 2018 and that the Committee Majority voted on Monday to release to the public, over objections from the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation," Mr. Schiff wrote.  He says that after Democrats found the document "had been secretly altered," committee Republicans offered them the opportunity to compare the memo sent to the White House with the memo that was made public to all House Members.

Schiff accuses Republicans of flying into a panic because the Russia probe might get too close to Congress, as well as Trump.  "GOP members recognize that the probe threatens not only the president but also their majorities in Congress," he wrote.

Other Democrats who've seen the original draft say it contains cherry-picked information, and amounts to nothing more than a list of talking points that Republicans would use to speak against the Russia probe and special prosecutor Robert Mueller. 

The Justice Department said that releasing the classified memo would be "extraordinarily reckless" and could "risk harm to national security and to ongoing investigations".  Trump's hand-picked FBI director Christopher Wray and hand-picked Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein both oppose releasing the memo.