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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNunes drops his cherry-picked memo: This is it?! By Jennifer Rubin
By Jennifer Rubin February 2 at 1:06 PM
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We know that other materials included with the dossier to obtain the warrant were left out of Nunes account, and that a point-by-point rebuttal from Democrats has been suppressed. There is plenty else left out of the memo:
There is no explanation that FISA courts set a high bar for issuance of warrants and generally require multiple pieces of evidence.
There is no acknowledgment that Steele was a respected former MI6 agent or that some of his findings were confirmed by evidence provided from other sources. (Nunes says they were minimally sourced.)
There is no recognition the intelligence community already had Page on its radar screen as early as 2013.
There is no indication Steele knew who had funded the dossier (which was begun for a right-leaning publication and later financed by a Democratic associate of Hillary Clintons campaign).
There is no proof Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein thought the dossier was unreliable.
There is no proof anything in the dossier was in fact false.
There is no proof that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III or FBI Director Christopher A. Wray (whom Trump hired) had anything to do with the application for the warrant or that it affected their work. Both were hired the year after the initial FISA warrant request.
There is no reason spelled out why Rosenstein, whom Trump later appointed, would have intentionally misled the court.
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full article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2018/02/02/nunes-drops-his-cherry-picked-memo-this-is-it/?utm_term=.3ad895aff851
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Nunes drops his cherry-picked memo: This is it?! By Jennifer Rubin (Original Post)
DonViejo
Feb 2018
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lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)1. And the memo admits info about Papadopoulous (pre-Dossier) was key.
Papadopoulous has already been convicted for his part in the plot.
The memo contradicts its own flimsy premise.
underpants
(182,826 posts)2. Memo BS
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Thanks
PJMcK
(22,037 posts)3. The final sentence in the column
"If Trump is not a Russian agent, he surely is acting as effectively as one."
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)4. Time for a little Peggy