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Looks like everyone's done downplaying this and spouting the CNN talking points...

Here are some things the media do not want you to know about the Nunes memo:

1.The so-called Russian Dossier, the creation of Fusion GPS and former British spy Christopher Steele, is a political document namely, opposition research, created for the Democrat National Committee and Hillary Clintons 2016 presidential campaign.

2. Using what it knew was opposition research paid for by the Clinton campaign, in October of 2016, the FBI and DOJ obtained a FISA warrant from the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to install a wiretap to spy on Hillary Clintons opponent the Trump campaign, specifically Carter Page. This spying would last for a year.

3. It should be noted that the FISA court was set up to stop foreign terrorists. The fact that the FBI and DOJ would use this court to not only wiretap an American but to wiretap a presidential campaign belies belief. Why Obamas FBI and DOJ used this court as opposed to a normal court is obvious. As you will see below, a normal court probably would have denied the wiretap.

4. Worse still, in the summer of 2016, Obamas DOJ had already opened a counter-intelligence investigation into the Trump campaign. The fact that nothing from that months-old partisan investigation was used to obtain the Page wiretap is revealing.

5. According to the Nunes memo, an essential part of the FISA wiretap application was the Steele dossier, which again is a partisan political document created for the Clinton campaign.

6. So essential was this partisan dossier, Andrew McCabe, the disgraced former-Deputy Director of the FBI, admitted in December that no surveillance warrant would have been sought without the dossier.

7. Not only did the FBI knowingly use a document from a partisan campaign to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on the competing campaign, the FBI knew the dossier was mostly salacious and unverified. We know this because disgraced former-FBI Director James Comey told us so in June of 2017.

8. According to the Nunes memo, Steele told [former FBI official Bruce] Ohr, he was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president.'

9. Ohr, who was part of the FBIs anti-Trump Russian investigation, was not only friendly with Steele, Ohrs own wife worked with Steele at Fusion GPS doing opposition research (the dossier) against Trump for the Clinton campaign.

10. Despite a) knowing the dossier was opposition research paid for by the Clinton campaign b) knowing the dossier was salacious and unverified c) knowing Steele was desperate to destroy Trump d) the breathtaking conflict of interest in having an investigators own wife working on the dossier, the FBI still went to the FISA court to obtain permission to spy on Hillary Clintons opponent.
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