The Nunes memo has been released

The House Intelligence Committee has released, without redactions, the classified Nunes memo on alleged FISA abuses. The release was vehemently opposed by the intelligence community, with the FBI issuing a rare public statement to express its “grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy.”

What the memo alleges:

• The dossier authored by Christopher Steele was “an essential part” of the FBI and the Justice Department’s justification for conducting electronic surveillance of Carter Page. It also notes the dossier was funded by the DNC and Hillary Clinton’s campaign.


• Steele said he was “desperate that Donald Trump not get elected.”


• This “clear evidence of Steele’s bias” wasn’t reflected in any of the applications to authorize the electronic surveillance.

One more thing: The memo also says that information about Trump campaign adviser George Papadopolous “triggered the opening of an FBI counterintelligence investigation” in July 2016 by Peter Strzok, one of the FBI agents who later got in trouble for texts about Trump and Clinton.

• Twitter is abuzz with speculation — like this tweet from David French — that this fact undercuts the memo’s thesis that the Russia investigation sprung mostly from the Steele dossier.

Read the memo here

 

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