"Well yeah we basically found out that the reason for the Mueller investigation is now a total fraud by the Hillary Clinton campaign, the Democratic National Convention, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation."
We didn't find anything of the kind. Nunes three-and-a-half page memo was nothing but a dud, as there was nothing of vital importance there. There is nothing at all that even suggests proof of the FBI being biased against T-rump; no proof of abuse of surveillance powers by the FBI, and no proof that the investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia is fundamentally flawed. Nothing.
"The Memo" at it's core claimed the FBI’s use of surveillance power under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) during the 2016 campaign was “a troubling breakdown of legal processes established to protect the American people from abuses related to the FISA process.”
The memo cites one example of this claim: The request by the Department of Justice and FBI for permission under FISA powers to snoop on former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page back on October 21, 2016. Keyword is 'former' as Page left the campaign a month before this was requested. That's a major red flag right there - showing there's nothing in this memo as a cause for concern.
It goes on to allege that the Page FISA application, which was ultimately approved by a judge, was fundamentally flawed. It claims that the application depended on “the Steele dossier,” a document put together by former British spy Christopher Steele alleging deep ties between Trump and Russia which Nunes suggests is a problem. He says it omitted several key facts about the dossier that undermine its credibility: most notably that the dossier was partially funded by the Democratic National Committee and that Steele himself has expressed his opposition to a Trump Presidency.
We don't know whether these claims are factual or not since we don't have access to the FISA APPLICATION.
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