pretty good job at rooting out waste and malfeasance and fraud and general horowitz found the text messages. bill: you re right about that. i remember that as we went through it. i think 99% of the cases that have gone to the fisa court have been approved. what s the 1% of cases not approved? that s the case and why i want fisa reform and a lot of this debate finished after the debate on reform. yes, i think nobody in law enforcement should be looking at american s information without first get warrant. that s what i fought for and we re close to getting the bill and getting reform for fisa but we didn t quite get there and then the nunez memo came out the day after we finished talking about reform. i talked to the president about this and i think we should bring back up fisa reform and should
nunes was trying to do, it was not about fisa reform, not about surveillance abuse. in fact, devin nunes has always been a cheerleader of fisa and the intelligence community, including electronic surveillance. so this has been a canard the whole time, a total she rachara. what this was about was trying to discredit the mueller investigation by claiming our law enforcement and intelligence professionals illegally used this dossier to wiretap an american citizen. what the schiff rebuttal makes very clear is that to the extent any information from the steele dossier was used, it was used narrowly and the court was apprised by the basis of the information, including the political context in which it was provided to the fbi. adam schiff has done a great service to not only the fbi, the department of justice, intelligence community, but also the american people by releasing this memo and in so doing,
you know, before nunes was the chairman, if there was a serious issue that needed investigation and, look, fisa reform and how the fbi goes and gets a fisa warrant is a serious issue with a lot of interesting reform ideas out there. look, the committee would do a private investigation. they might issue a report that would have redactions. you d have a majority view, a minority view. but this whole way of staff partisan-driven memos that get leaked and then there s a twitter campaign behind making it public, that the president of the united states then leads, this entire process is insane and has really, really damaged one of the most important institutions in the house and made it operate like just another partisan committee, and it s really sort of tragic what s happened. now the democrats are getting drawn into this in the same way. jeff, you look so skeptical right now. well, it s just, you know, i think trump has won this fight because now you know, look, it s hard to follo
makes me look like. or having it so redacted it doesn t have meaning. maybe he ll release it. and put it out exactly as it is. there s nothing in the past showing he would be shamed to putting it out. i m sure he doesn t want to. the political pressure will be tough. and i think if he doesn t release it, the temptation for someone just to leak it will be very strong. so my guess would be one way or the other we ll see memo. and i want to see it. the nunes memo raises legitimate questions. we need more information rather than less. i want to see the schiff memo. and the under lying intelligence as possible to release. the larger issue is nunes has blown up the way that the house intelligence committee has worked for decades. in before nunes was the chairman if there was a serious issue that needed investigation, like fisa reform and how the fbi goes and gets a fisa warrant is a
fbi director said he had grave concerns about this memo being released because he said omissions made it inaccurate, ryan. that s right. look, you know, i was always in favor of this memo is not going to be the end of the world, you know, journalist. if there is a secret memo out there, i want to see it. so i was a little bit skeptical of official government position on this being so secretive that sources and methods would lead to some kind of the sky is falling scenario. on the other hand, i find this argument that republicans are doing this because they care about the civil liberties and they care about fisa reform. i find it really disingenuous. i mean, the patriot act and fisa has been debated recently in congress. there were a lot of civil libertarians out there saying if you want to reform fisa, the first thing you do is have an independent advocate who works