The Harm Releasing the Nunes Memo Caused
By emptywheel
February 3, 2018 at 05:21PM
via emptywheel https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/02/03/what-harm-did-releasing-the-nunes-memo-cause/
«I did two pieces elsewhere on the Devin Nunes memo yesterday. At Vice, I tracked all the holes in the memo; subsequent reporting showed that I hit virtually all the big ones that Adam Schiff hit in his response memo: the memo misrepresented what FBI told FISC about the political nature of Christopher Steele's, it misrepresents Andrew McCabe's testimony, and the memo misrepresented why George Papadopoulos was mentioned in the application. At HuffPo, I described how on the twin FISA events of the last few weeks — 702 reauthorization and the Nunes memo — both Nunes and Paul Ryan were on the wrong side of the principles of rule of law and civil liberties.
Since the memo has proven to be such a dud, a lot of people are now questioning DOJ's and Democrats' claims that releasing the memo would harm national security. I want to lay out three ways (DOJ surely believes) it may well do that.»