The weekend release of a highly-redacted version of the FBI's application for a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to wiretap onetime Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page has renewed the argument over the Nunes memo - the brief report produced by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes detailing problems in the application.
When the Nunes memo was released, there was controversy over its assertion that the dossier formed an "Essential" part of the Page FISA application.
Senate Judiciary Committee staff, who reviewed the FISA application separately from the House, concluded that the dossier allegations made up the "Bulk" of the application.
Even a Washington Post article Sunday purporting to debunk the Nunes memo in light of the FISA application conceded that the dossier played "a prominent role" in the FISA application.
Finally, the Nunes memo's assertion, noted below, that former FBI number-two Andrew McCabe agreed that "No surveillance warrant would have been sought from the FISC without the Steele dossier information," was not challenged by Democrats when the Nunes memo was made public.
B) The initial FISA application notes Steele was working for a named U.S. person, but does not name Fusion GPS and principal Glenn Simpson, who was paid by a U.S. law firm representing the DNC. The application does not mention Steele was ultimately working on behalf of - and paid by - the DNC and Clinton campaign, or that the FBI had separately authorized payment to Steele for the same information.
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.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fisa-warrant-application-supports-nunes-memo
When the Nunes memo was released, there was controversy over its assertion that the dossier formed an "Essential" part of the Page FISA application.
Senate Judiciary Committee staff, who reviewed the FISA application separately from the House, concluded that the dossier allegations made up the "Bulk" of the application.
Even a Washington Post article Sunday purporting to debunk the Nunes memo in light of the FISA application conceded that the dossier played "a prominent role" in the FISA application.
Finally, the Nunes memo's assertion, noted below, that former FBI number-two Andrew McCabe agreed that "No surveillance warrant would have been sought from the FISC without the Steele dossier information," was not challenged by Democrats when the Nunes memo was made public.
B) The initial FISA application notes Steele was working for a named U.S. person, but does not name Fusion GPS and principal Glenn Simpson, who was paid by a U.S. law firm representing the DNC. The application does not mention Steele was ultimately working on behalf of - and paid by - the DNC and Clinton campaign, or that the FBI had separately authorized payment to Steele for the same information.
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.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fisa-warrant-application-supports-nunes-memo
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