What does the release of this memo mean for the overall House Intelligence Committee investigation into russian interference . Mr. Heath it is hard to know. It is hard to assess whether this is a legal or political document or something else, and it is hard to assess the claims that it makes. It is saying this is surveillance that was legally questionable, but it does not really say what the Legal Standard was or what law might have been broken, and it is not clear as a reader where that comes from. You tweeted about that, saying the curious thing about the memo is it does not accuse the fbi or justice with any particular law. There are Legal Standards for warrant applications, but it does not reference them. Why is that important or do you think this memo is just meant to make a statement . Mr. Heath i do not know what the intention is. I am wary of anybody, including the authors of this memo, who are trying to make assessments about peoples motives. It is interesting to me that there is a pretty clear Fourth Amendment standard. There are hundreds of fairly recent cases on this about what kind of information the government has to put into a warrant application. And the memo does not really say how, leaving out the fact that steele was a paid opposition operative would violate the standard. The memo talks about what was left out of the fisa application, but not what was included. We do not know what other fbi evidence they had. Do not know what the fbi said about steele to begin with. When the committee decided to release the republican report, they at the same time did not agree to releasing the democrats report. Well let happen, and what is expected to be in the democrat memo on this . Mr. Heath you can see representative schiff, the ranking member, has taken exception to the way republicans have handled this. You have seen from the speaker there is some willingness to make the democrats memo public. There is a transcript released today of the Intelligence Committee meeting where they decided to release this. There were some description of the democrats memo that is 10 pages long that includes 36 footnotes. The trick with that is that if you want to talk about the legal side of this and leave the political bit alone, the way you look at whether a warrant application is valid, whether this information about steele needed to be disclosed is by looking at Everything Else the fbi put in that warrant application. So to have that conversation, youre going to start bringing a lot of other facts, resume ugly about a lot of other intelligence sources, out into the light of day, and it is not clear the fbi did not want this out, which does not say a lot about other sources. So if this gave the Intelligence Community harper, it is hard to imagine what the schiff memo might do. There is an investigation in this senate committee. Mark warner said earlier today unlike almost every house member who voted in favor of this memos release, i have read the underlying documents on which the nunes memo was based. They separate did not support its conclusions. Do you think there will be an impact in that investigation in that second look at russian interference . Mr. Heath this hard to know. Every committee that looks at this seems to have a slightly different focus. The House Committee may be more than anybody else is looking at the Justice Department and the fbi wrote in the early stages of the trump investigation and their handling of matters related to secretary clinton, too. But it is hard to know how tied together they are, and at some point that political currents become unalterable. The one thing this case has reminded me of and maybe especially the special counsel side of it, there is some capacity here force apprise. Brad heath covers issues of law and justice at usa today. Thanks so much. 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