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struggle4progress

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Sun Feb 4, 2018, 06:51 PM Feb 2018

Schiff: Key part of memo not accurate

By Gabrielle Ware
February 4, 2018

... The memo says an opposition research dossier on President Donald Trump produced by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele was used to secure a warrant to spy on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. It claims that dossier had anti-Trump motivations that were not disclosed on the warrant application.

... Schiff says the application did disclose the dossier had "likely political motivation."

The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal have all since reported the court was, in fact, aware of the memo's political motivations ...

https://www.newsy.com/stories/rep-adam-schiff-key-part-of-nunes-memo-is-untrue/

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