Mach
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114 pages and you're still not getting it?You posted nothing that in any way discredits the republican memo... NOTHING..
The House Intelligence Committee was supposed to be investigating in a bi-partisan fashion, and because Nunes was part of Trump's campaign/transition, he recused himself.
Later, he denied this, and had apparently been conducting his own, partisan investigation in secret.
Nunes himself was part of the approval of the FISA surveillance process, just recently re-approved by him.
Nunes conducted this "memo investigation" by having Gowdy look at the classified information, and decide himself, with no bi-partisan oversight, or any oversight whatsoever, what information to bring to Nunes.
Nunes then translated Gowdy's findings into a "memo", the purpose of which was to release directly to the public. Not to bi-partisan back and forth in committee. Not to prosecutors because it's not a crime. Intended apparently, to cast doubt on the FBI/special counsel investigation...of Trump, the guy he worked for.
The FBI said the memo should not be released and that it had factual omissions and accuracy problems.
The U.S. intelligence community said it should not be released.
The hashtag was played up on social media, including ironically with the help of Russian-linked Bots on twitter.
Democrats on the committee being justifiably outraged, attempted to release their own counter-memo to dispute it, but they were prohibited by Republicans until weeks later in a redacted version.
There is no claim of any crime from the Memo.
To my knowledge it was not intended, or has been used to, begin any formal inquiry into what occurred with the FISA warrants, or any peep from the Republican FISA judges that approved it, repeatedly.
While the content of the memo is irrelevant, the intent and the process by which Nunes conducted himself, is clearly improper and unethical.
Even Gowdy, the guy who viewed the classified information directly, said this after the memo:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunes_memoGowdy went on to say he was "100 percent" behind Mueller: "Look, Russia tried to interfere with our election in 2016 with or without a dossier."[SUP][68][/SUP]
On January 24, 2018, Trump expressed support for releasing the Nunes memo. He reportedly told close advisers that he believed the memo would reveal the FBI's bias against him, and provide grounds for him to fire Rod Rosenstein.[SUP][74][/SUP]
It's irrelevant and improper in every way imaginable. Since it was not intended to be a fix of FISA or legal action, one has to conclude it was meant to harm the Mueller investigation and/or provide Trump with political support to obstruct justice.