The Democrats' memo confirms that DOJ used Steele's research on Trump as part of a FISA application, but quotes from that application pretty well undermine the idea that the government was trying to hide that from the court.https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4387038-Hmtg-115-ig00-20180205-sd002.html …
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A lot of the critiques of DOJ's conduct reduce to the idea that the gov't should not use political opposition research to justify surveillance - that it's too tainted, too icky. For better or worse, that's not the legal standard.
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We went through the legal questions when Rep. Nunes' memo was released. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/02/02/fisa-surveillance-nunes-memo-allegations/300583002/ … The new one provides some additional data points that could help in applying the legal standard.
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What the new memo leaves out is the extent of the *other* information the gov't had to justify its surveillance of Carter Page - in other words, how central of a source was Steele? The Dems' memo suggests DOJ had more to go on, though we don't know what.pic.twitter.com/Vnkqlso77G
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House Republicans have released a rebuttal, and it looks like the centrality of Steele's work to the FISA application is in dispute. https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/democrat_memo_charge_and_response.pdf … FWIW, we've sued for a copy of the entire application, which is the only way to really answer that question.pic.twitter.com/7Sslw2rYMB
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This kinda sounds like an intentional confusion of volume vs centrality?
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