Last week, the president of the United States made an unprecedented move by authorizing the release of a classified memo for his own selfish purposes. The memo, written by Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Devin Nunes, was supposed to detail abuses of power by the FBI and Justice Department. Instead, it was an insubstantial, partisan attempt to discredit the investigation run by special counsel Robert Mueller. President Donald Trump even went so far as to say that this memo vindicates him in the Russia probe.