we don t even know how close it is to reality, because we haven t seen the democratic side of things either. so what we re looking at here appears to be a document released that will to some extent call some people to question an investigation. it s going to maybe cause some people in congress or perhaps the president to question an ongoing investigation. those are all political procedures. when we get down the road to who was kept on maybe if the special investigator is fired, those were all political decisions still. so i don t think our knowledge really of the legal proceedings of what s actually happening with the russia investigation has been amplified or enhanced by this memo. it may be we are still talking about or what s disputed, whether the steeleossi was the central document in the warrant request, but i reall think right now what we re looking at is a choice to declassify a political document,
any prosecutor understands delaware v. franks and that obviously has shot the opportunity to use any of this in the foot. we know fisa courts, the washington post reported, has been weaponized against american citizens before. that s what we hope will be gleaned from that memo? i hope so. regardless of your political affiliation, you should be fearful of the government leveraging power against private s citizens, contrary to their reasonable expectation of privacy. you don t believe the fbi or entity like it should be able to investigate any american who may have some interaction with an adversary? because isn t that what s at the core of the carter page/fisa warrant request, application? not at all. i do believe, however, that due process and a duty of candor before the court undergird our legal system and that s not here. so that s the problem. we ve sort of owe mimitted information as convenient as the facts supporting probable cause, thrown it before the court and
one, cnn s own reporting is that the fbi had its own intelligence to back up this warrant request. and let s be fair. and phil mudd would know this better than me seeing as he served in an actual supervisory role in the fbi. the fbi is not going to go to the court with a document produced by someone else. they re going to come with their own goods. and whether or not that memo was mentioned in the warrant request is another question. but it appears that nunes is making the argument that this shows that they based this entire fisa warrant and therefore the surveillance during the russia investigation during the campaign on a democratically funded dossier. it doesn t seem at this point that the facts stand up to that. we haven t seen the memo. it may have something else in here. but at this point, and i ll defer to phil here as to whether the fbi would seek out such a warrant based entirely on outside research. i think your question is a
it was based on that now famous dossier and in doing so they got the warrant based on democratically funded research. the fact is this, one, cnn s own reporting is that they had its own intelligence to back up this warrant request. he would know this better than me being that he served as an actual supervise ry role. they will come with their own goods. whether or not that memo was mentioned until warrant request is another question, but it appears that nunez is making the argument that it shows they based this entire warrant and the surveillance during the russia investigation during the campaign on a democratically
s could okay it to go to the point itself. they point to the fact he had contact with a known operative in 2013 and tried to recruit him as an intelligence person. self-described junior figure who never met donald trump. there may be truth to it. no idea what was in that fisa warrant request. whether there was there there will have to remain to be seen as the investigation goes on. he is a peripheral figure in the trump universe. moreover, the whole notion that donald trump is putin s man in washington and putin handpicked president has completely destroyed by the strike on syria. if you look at the washington post today. let me hold up the front page. the carter page story. over here the story that s sub head is officials slam moscow. a story in the post today about