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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe staffers behind the Nunes memo
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/551825/?__twitter_impression=true...."Nunes has been conducting a parallel investigation into the FBI and the Justice Department since March 2017, when he first began examining whether top officials improperly unmasked and then leaked the names of Trump associates who surfaced in intelligence reports during the transition period. Nunes did not write the three-and-a-half-page memo outlining the initial findings of that investigationwhich is ongoingby himself, however.
Two sources familiar with the matter told me that much of the heavy lifting was done by Kash Patel, a top Nunes staffer and senior committee counsel. Patel previously attracted media attention by traveling to London late last summerwithout the knowledge of the U.S. embassy or British governmentalong with committee staffer Doug Presley in search of Christopher Steele, author of a controversial dossier on Trump.
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Boyds letter to Nunes referred to the document as a staff-drafted memorandum that purports to be based on classified source materials that neither you nor most of them have seen.
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The Nunes memo is not Patels first foray into the FISA and unmasking controversy that was drummed up by his boss back in March 2017. Patel circulated an internal memo last November urging Nunes to hold top officials at the Justice Department and the FBI in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over documents related to the Obama administrations alleged use of the dossier to surveil Trump associates during the transition period, one of the sources told me. That memo was first reported by Fox News in November.
Patel also formally invited Erik Prince to testify before the House Intelligence Committee last summer following a meeting between Prince and Nunes over the summer or early fall, according to a transcript of Princes interview, which was conducted on November 30. The meeting raised eyebrows given Nuness recusal from the Russia investigation at the time and Princes status as a witness in that probe.
Prince was questioned by the committee about his meeting with Emirati government officials and a Russian hedge-fund manager in Seychelles just before the Inauguration. His prior conversation with Nunes, he told the panel, revolved around Nuness investigation into the unmasking of intelligence on Americans.
Patel set off for London last summer without first informing Ranking Member Schiff and Republican Representative Mike Conaway, who took over the panels Russia probe after Nunes stepped aside last April. The trip was characterized by a committee official at the time as an intelligence committee trip whose main purpose was not to meet with Steele, one of the sources told me. Steeles lawyer denied the staffers access to his client.".....
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The staffers behind the Nunes memo (Original Post)
Tanuki
Feb 2018
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Gothmog
(145,264 posts)1. WH Counsel-These are only opinions of GOP staffers
meadowlander
(4,395 posts)3. The decision to release the memo over the objections of the IC
is an implicit endorsement of its contents.
It is unprecedented to just "set out there" the "opinions of staffers" when those opinions include classified information.