Carter Page FISA Surveillance Docs Discredit Republican Devin Nunes and GOP Memo
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The 412 pages released this Saturday related to the surveillance of former Trump presidential campaign adviser Carter Page as part of the Trump Russia 2016 probe discredit Devin Nunes (R-CA) and the GOP memo, which claimed that a Yahoo News article was used to corroborate Steele.
Former Special Counsel of the Department of Defense Ryan Goodman and now founder of Just Security pointed out that the documents discredit Republican Devin Nunes, “New FISA documents discredit Nunes Dem memo stated: “The GOP [Nunes] memo also claims that a Yahoo News article was used to corroborate Steele, but this is not at all why the article was referenced” FBI used Yahoo article for Section showing Page denied cooperation with Russia:”
The Republican memo released claimed that the warrant issued to surveil Carter shouldn’t have been issued because the FBI’s application for surveillance relied on information in the Steele dossier, which they claimed was commissioned by Trump’s political opponents. They further claimed that the FBI based its warrant on a news report.
Republicans have alleged the FBI should not have used a confidential informant who reached out to several Trump campaign officials as a source.
Ooops.
“The Carter Page FISA application also cited extensively a September 23, 2016, Yahoo News article by Michael Isikoff, which focuses on Page’s July 2016 trip to Moscow,” the memo says. “This article does not corroborate the Steele dossier because it is derived from information leaked by Steele himself to Yahoo News.”
The FBI already accused the GOP of distorting the facts in their memo, so this is just the nail in the coffin.
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https://www.politicususa.com/2018/0...edit-republican-devin-nunes-and-gop-memo.html
The 412 pages released this Saturday related to the surveillance of former Trump presidential campaign adviser Carter Page as part of the Trump Russia 2016 probe discredit Devin Nunes (R-CA) and the GOP memo, which claimed that a Yahoo News article was used to corroborate Steele.
Former Special Counsel of the Department of Defense Ryan Goodman and now founder of Just Security pointed out that the documents discredit Republican Devin Nunes, “New FISA documents discredit Nunes Dem memo stated: “The GOP [Nunes] memo also claims that a Yahoo News article was used to corroborate Steele, but this is not at all why the article was referenced” FBI used Yahoo article for Section showing Page denied cooperation with Russia:”
The Republican memo released claimed that the warrant issued to surveil Carter shouldn’t have been issued because the FBI’s application for surveillance relied on information in the Steele dossier, which they claimed was commissioned by Trump’s political opponents. They further claimed that the FBI based its warrant on a news report.
Republicans have alleged the FBI should not have used a confidential informant who reached out to several Trump campaign officials as a source.
Ooops.
“The Carter Page FISA application also cited extensively a September 23, 2016, Yahoo News article by Michael Isikoff, which focuses on Page’s July 2016 trip to Moscow,” the memo says. “This article does not corroborate the Steele dossier because it is derived from information leaked by Steele himself to Yahoo News.”
The FBI already accused the GOP of distorting the facts in their memo, so this is just the nail in the coffin.
(More at above url)
