So kompromat on Clinton offered to Page and Papadopoulos.
At some point, however, the Russians made the judgment that they would release this themselves (via Wikileaks) rather than share it with the campaign. Of course we know the reason why. The patriotic Trump campaign people told them this would be illegal interference in the American political system and that they could not accept it and would be reporting all this to the FBI.
For the sake of clarity: the above paragraph is not in the memo.
What's even funnier is he Papa guilty to lying to the FBI. Most likely over how many nights a week he watched Big Bang reruns.
For the sake of clarity: the above paragraph is not in the memo.
Seems like the memo was kind of flat-o, eh?
I hope we get a more detailed description of what "the assessed poltical motivation of those who hired steele".
How much detail did the fbi provide that was at its disposal.
It is there. Bottom of p 5 and top of p 6. "DoJ in fact informed the court accurately that Steele was hired by politically-motivated persons and entities and that his research appeared intended for us to discredit Trump's campaign."
It's short on ... everything ... including sentences.
But who my friend? Who? The fbi left that part out.
We were promised a categorical disassembly of the Republican memo.
This literally does nothing of the sort, not even if you squint.
Hard to detonate a grenade when it is a dud.
The Republican memo was a dud and it blew off Schiff's arm.
They have procedures they follow to avoid "unmasking" U.S. persons not directly at issue in the application. Hence the reference to U.S. person and Candidate #1. I don't have a problem with them sticking with protocol.