The Nunes Memo: Watergate, It Ain't
After weeks of frenzied hype — stirred by Republican politicians, Fox News and Russian bots — "The Memo" has finally dropped.
Here's what you need to know:
The four-page document was written by the staff of Republican House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes – who previously served on the presidential transition team of Donald Trump, and whose alleged misconduct later forced his recusal from the Trump/Russia investigation. The declassification and release of the partisan memo was opposed by the FBI and many top Republicans, but cleared by the Trump White House on Friday.
Far from explosive – "bigger than Watergate" according to numerous GOP politicians – the hotly anticipated memo is a reed-thin whinge.
The memo cries foul that a foreign intelligence surveillance court issued and renewed warrants to surveil Trump aide Carter Page based on incomplete information. Page, you recall, was a Trump adviser who maintained frequent, dodgy back-channel contacts with Russian officials.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-nunes-memo-heres-what-you-need-to-know-w516292?utm_source=rsnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=daily&utm_campaign=020218_15
