Devin Nunes MOCKS Dems and media for ‘wild rants’ over FISA application

Devin Nunes took 24 hours before he found an article sufficiently glowing enough to post on his twitter and mock the Democrats and the media with.

Here’s part of the article he posted:

On Saturday night, the denouncing started again. “The only thing the newly released FISA documents show is that Republicans have been lying for months,” the lefty think tank Center for American Progress said in a typical response.

Now, however, we have both the memo and the FISA application, if in a blacked-out state. We can compare the two. And doing so shows the Nunes memo was overwhelmingly accurate. Perhaps some Democrats do not believe it should have been written, or they dispute what it included and left out, or they do not agree with its conclusions, but it was in fact accurate.

Remember, although it was called the Nunes memo, it was Trey Gowdy who wrote it.

One of the main claims is that the FISA court wasn’t told the source of the dossier. Here’s how the article addresses that:

Readers will search the FISA application in vain for any specific mention of the DNC, Clinton campaign, or any party/campaign funding of the dossier. For the most part, names were not used in the application, but Donald Trump was referred to as “Candidate #1,” Hillary Clinton was referred to as “Candidate #2,” and the Republican Party was referred to as “Political Party #1.” Thus, the FISA application could easily have explained that the dossier research was paid for by “Candidate #2” and “Political Party #2,” meaning the Democrats. And yet the FBI chose to describe the situation this way, in a footnote: “Source #1…was approached by an identified U.S. person, who indicated to Source #1 that a U.S.-based law firm had hired the identified U.S. person to conduct research regarding Candidate #1’s ties to Russia…The identified U.S. person hired Source #1 to conduct this research. The identified U.S. person never advised Source #1 as to the motivation behind the research into Candidate #1’s ties to Russia. The FBI speculates that the identified U.S. person was likely looking for information that could be used to discredit Candidate #1’s campaign.”

Democrats argue that the FISA Court judges should have been able to figure out, from that obscure description, that the DNC and Clinton campaign paid for the dossier. That seems a pretty weak argument, but in any case, the Nunes memo’s statement that the FISA application did not disclose or reference the role of the DNC and the Clinton campaign is undeniably true.

So it, was, but in a kind of circumlocution. Is that a problem? Is that enough to say that it was being hidden from the FISA court? Trey Gowdy seems to think so.

Here’s the portion about the Yahoo article:

But when the Nunes memo was released, Democrats argued that the FISA application did not use the Yahoo article to corroborate the dossier, but rather — as it used other news accounts of varying reliability — to describe part of the Carter Page story. As it turned out, the application used part of the Yahoo piece in a way that suggested it was corroborating the dossier, but it also used part of it as a news account. So call the Nunes memo’s corroboration claim only partly accurate.

So there you are. I haven’t seen either side wave a white flag and both sides are declaring victory, so it’s another rhetorical stalemate. It would be really nice to see some absolute evidence someday, but I don’t see that coming any time soon.

Have yourselves an open thread. 

Here’s some comment fodder – I know this is supposed to be a protest, but it just looks cool to me:

And this is just funny.

OK go at it.


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