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Reading the democratic memo, it didn't take long to come to the conclusion it was a total dud. It failed to discredit the republican memo and didn't debunked any of it's key points at all. (see for yourself) We should have known it was junk when the democrats decided to release it on a Friday (the classic "Friday document dump"), rather than on a Monday or Tuesday where it would get far more media coverage. The fact is, Adam Schiff and house democrats, who had hyped their counter memo since the release of the Nunes memo, knew the claims in the republican memo were valid, knew they couldn't debunk them, and wanted as little media coverage as possible when they released what they knew to be a political hail mary that would accomplished absolutely nothing.
If any of you are still under the illusion that the Schiff memo debunked anything of substance in the Republican memo, or in any way validated the use of the Steele dossier by the FBI and DOJ to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on Carter Page, then you obviously haven't been paying much attention the last 4 days. If you had, you would have noticed that in spite of all the hype we heard from the mainstream media in the lead up to the thing going public, the media has said very little about it since Schiff released it last Friday. Hell, even George Stephanopoulos and the rest of the Sunday morning political shows said very little, or nothing at all about it, which tells you just how big of a failure the democratic memo truly was. If it would have contained anything substantive that discredited the FBI's abuse of the FISA court that was laid out by Nunes and the republicans, that memo would have dominated the Sunday shows and been the #1 topic of discussion on leftist blogs and in mainstream media circles both yesterday and today... but it isn't.
With few exceptions, the only things you'll find right now about the democratic memo, come from right leaning blogs and oped's written by conservative columnists... and if that doesn't shatter the illusions of those still waiving that memo around and claiming victory, nothing will.
Well done Mr. Schiff.
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If any of you are still under the illusion that the Schiff memo debunked anything of substance in the Republican memo, or in any way validated the use of the Steele dossier by the FBI and DOJ to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on Carter Page, then you obviously haven't been paying much attention the last 4 days. If you had, you would have noticed that in spite of all the hype we heard from the mainstream media in the lead up to the thing going public, the media has said very little about it since Schiff released it last Friday. Hell, even George Stephanopoulos and the rest of the Sunday morning political shows said very little, or nothing at all about it, which tells you just how big of a failure the democratic memo truly was. If it would have contained anything substantive that discredited the FBI's abuse of the FISA court that was laid out by Nunes and the republicans, that memo would have dominated the Sunday shows and been the #1 topic of discussion on leftist blogs and in mainstream media circles both yesterday and today... but it isn't.
With few exceptions, the only things you'll find right now about the democratic memo, come from right leaning blogs and oped's written by conservative columnists... and if that doesn't shatter the illusions of those still waiving that memo around and claiming victory, nothing will.
Well done Mr. Schiff.
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