The decision was made at the request of a number of congressional committees and “for reasons of transparency,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on Monday.

Trump’s order instructs the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the Department of Justice - including the FBI - to immediately declassify pages 10-12 and 17-34 of the June 2017 application to the FISA court, used to justify surveillance of Carter Page, as well as “all FBI reports of interviews prepared in connection with all Carter Page FISA applications.”