As best I can tell, the memo's "revelations" are: 1) Info from the Steele dossier featured in the FISA application for surveillance on Page 2) FBI agent Peter Strzok opened the investigation based on info that originated with George Papadopoulos We've known both for a while.
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There aren't any new names in the memo, nor information that wasn't already in the media, so I'm not sure what prompted all the worry about revealing sources and methods. Maybe that's a risk with the underlying documents, but I don't see any in the memo itself.
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The memo contains some howlers: "In early January 2017, Director Comey briefed President-elect Trump on a summary of the Steele dossier, even though it was--according to his June 2017 testimony--'salacious and unverified'" You mean the FBI didn't hide it from the president? GASP!
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Having watched the long pre-memo hype and now read the memo, it looks like this prediction was spot on:https://twitter.com/NGrossman81/status/958420043188105216 …
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If you want to read it, here's the link. But it's probably a waste of your time. There's nothing big that wasn't in the news. And it's Nunes' spin, not actual evidence. All will declare preconceptions "proven," none will be convinced of something new (END)https://www.scribd.com/document/370598711/House-Intelligence-Committee-Report-On-FISA-Abuses#fullscreen&from_embed …
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There's something to be said about using bogus documents in FISA applications.
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I've seen this elsewhere too and find it odd. Do you really think the FBI blindly uses tips it receives in legal proceedings, rather than investigating and trying to corroborate them first?
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Certainly the memo says that it sometimes does. I'm interested to see the Democrat memo, too.
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