Inquiry and Memos
At this moment the only thing that seemed to be of any value to Republicans was the memos from the DOJ.
The memo from Devin Nunes was definitely causing a problem. However the Comey memos didn’t face the same dilemma, at least for now.
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg said “as it prevails here, the Comey Memos, at least for now, will remain in the hands of the Special Counsel and not the public.”
Rep. Jerry Nadler said “nothing about the source of Steele’s funding or his later opinions about Donald Trump speak to the credibility of his work, or its inclusion in the FISA application.”
“The Nunes memo gives us no reason to doubt the court’s determination of probable cause to believe that Carter Page was an agent of the Russian government – particularly given Page’s later admissions to the press about his interactions with Russian officials,” Nadler said.
It was quite amazing how the same memo could have such opposing views. Republicans believed it showed discrepancies by the DOJ. Yet Democrats say otherwise and argued that it implicated some of Trump’s former employees.
“Carter Page was, more likely than not, an agent of a foreign power. The Department of Justice thought so. A federal judge agreed. The consensus, supported by the facts, forms the basis of the warrant issued,” Nadler said.
