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From that same Lawfare article:

"Then there is the still-classified response memo drafted by committee Democrats, which they say they will seek a vote to release Monday. The New York Times reports that this rebuttal questions some of the Nunes document’s key claims. The Democrats assert that the FBI disclosed more to the FISA court than the Nunes memo suggests, including the fact that the information provided by Steele was politically motivated. Furthermore, the Times reports, while the memo says that Andrew McCabe testified before the House intelligence committee that the Steele dossier was the motivating factor in seeking the FISA warrant, the Democrats note that the memo does not mention that McCabe also testified of other factors in the decision to seek a FISA application: Russian targeting of Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos, Carter Page’s July 2016 trip to Moscow and Russian hacking aimed at the Clinton campaign.

The Wall Street Journal, citing a source who has reviewed the FISA application, reports that the dossier constituted only part of the application. Contradicting the Nunes document’s claims, the source indicated that the FISA application did, in fact, disclose that Steele was paid by a “law firm working for a major political party.”

There’s actually a lot more. But you get the point. The bottom line is that there are multiple reasons to expect that Nunes has not given a full and fair account of the FBI’s FISA process and that his memo is as factually deficient as it accuses the Carter Page warrant application of being."

 

He's not worth this discussion. This is Laughing At Idiots Rick.

 

Daily reminder:

 

There's a point where you have to realize that you've twisted yourself into a pretzel and there are only two possible possibilities:

1) There's a massive conspiracy involving large number of high-ranking law enforcement officials, many of whom were appointed by Republicans originally and have a lifetime of donating exclusively to Republican candidates while working in a heavily Republican field.

or

2) Donald Trump is corrupt and surrounded himself with people who run afoul of the law.

If you choose 1, you're too far gone down the rabbit hole.

 

Good. Next time the President shouldn't use them as props for his racist bullshit.

 

Daily reminder: Trump chose not to have any family members from the Las Vegas mass shooting.

 

Sequels are always worse, and the original "The Memo" sucked wicked hard.

 

If he did, Dems wouldn't have stood for them either.

 

But he didn't. Because it's only when brown people pull the trigger that your folks get riled up.

 

I wonder how many warrants will be unsealed when the charges are revealed, and how many of them will go to places that are unanticipated? There are lots of former White House insiders who could get tapped. K.T. McFarland might have dropped out because she heard something was coming. A number of the R's who have chosen not to run again are several who were committee chairman and had access to secret documents. Trey Gowdy, maybe?

The Watergate Grand Jury charged six people with thirteen counts. The inner circle around Trump with possible/probable exposure is what, maybe twenty people? Trump, Fredo, Jared, Ivanka, Bannon, Kellyanne, Sessions, Miller, Manafort, Gates, Flynn, Papadopoulos, Hope Hicks, Priebus, Page, that's fifteen easy ones. Throw in others like Pompeo, a number of lawyers and campaign finance people and you can get to twenty easily.

 

This is sweet.



Former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.), a former Tea Party congressman:

“With Nunes, I found it was all about politics, almost never about policy,” Walsh wrote. “He wants to please whomever he sees as the person or people running the show. Back then, it was House GOP leadership. Now it’s President Trump.”

 

If they did, Rush and Hannity would be screaming that they were cheering the deaths of God-fearing country music fans.