The Real Purpose Of The Nunes Memo

[UCmeNdc]

Despite the distraction, the memo shows no “deep state” plot to elect Hillary Clinton.

That memo, written by GOP committee staffers, was finally released on Friday. And it has no smoking gun to discredit Mueller or any other top Justice Department officials that Trump wants to get rid of.

Its purpose is to muddy the waters, raise questions in people’s minds and provide a distraction from the fact that at the end of the day, there is still zero evidence that there was a “deep state” plot to elect Hillary Clinton president.

The crux of the memo, pushed out by committee chair Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) is that law enforcement officials abused their surveillance authority by relying on a controversial “dossier” with unproven claims to spy on Trump campaign official Carter Page.

It says then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe testified they would not have “sought” a surveillance warrant for Page without that dossier.

But the memo never answers the question of whether the dossier was the basis of the FISA court’s decision to grant the warrant. It doesn’t reveal what else was included in the application for a warrant. And at the end of the day, there’s far more to the Russia investigation than the Page surveillance.


https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/devin-nunes-memo-plot_us_5a74a311e4b01ce33eb27fde?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

[world wide wally]

1. And to give Fox News some talking points

[regnaD kciN]

2. No, the purpose is very simple...

...to give Trump a pretext for firing Rosenstein and appointing a replacement who will get rid of Mueller.

From that angle, it doesn't have to be "convincing" to anyone except Trump, Republican congresscritters, and Fox News. They'll spend the entire weekend hyping it as absolute, incontrovertible proof of deep-state treachery, then fire Rosenstein by midweek at the latest. And all the debunking efforts by responsible news sources won't change that.

[trusty elf]

3. Ultimately, this is what I think Benedict Donald is doing....