The CIA's director during the Bush administration, Michael Hayden, who criticised the release of the memos, warned on Sunday that agents could be vulnerable because of the memos, facing civil lawsuits or congressional inquiries.
But the U.S. attorneys in several states that had legalized medical marijuana rebelled, and what was known as the Ogden memo faced stiff resistance from career prosecutors.
Now, one could take the memo at face value as a genuine attempt to rally the spirits of prisoners who are feeling out of sorts.
The president seemed to take their hyperbolic descriptions of the Nunes memo at face value, and is portraying its release as the silver bullet that ends the Mueller investigation.
It only took Kenner mayor Ben Zahn a week to rescind his memo after facing protests from locals and pressure from the ACLU.
If you have something you want to tell someone else on the job, you'll send an email, maybe write a memo, have a face-to-face meeting, or sometimes prepare a presentation deck.
No one seems to have got the memo about sucking face with your subjects.
In addition to face-to-face interviews, interpretive memos and field notes, written during and after the interviews, were included in the analysis.
He added that the lawyers who drafted the torture memo in March could face professional sanctions.
And it's why a 15-year-old intern's memo is taken at face value because it offers a simple roadmap for navigating social media use among teens.
Republican Congressman Trey Gowdy, who helped write the Republican memo, told CBS programme Face the Nation on Sunday: "There is a Russia investigation without a [Steele] dossier". He expressed "tremendous respect" for and trust in the FBI and the Department of Justice.
