Nunes FISA Memo is Out - the Damage is Underway: What Pray Tell Follows Next

“Declassified, but NOT Redacted” — still a very serious matter

(L-R: Rep. Nunes, President Trump, FBI Director Wray)

Nunes “Memogate” for lack of a better label:

For his part, Trump publicly supported and now has released “the memo 100% and unredacted,” too – here is the 4-page memo with cover letter [click wide screen for best viewing].

Now, along the way in the messy process, Rep. Nunes declined to answer questions about whether or not his efforts were coordinated with or by the White House (Spoiler alert: They were – see more below).

All of this raises even more questions about whether the president has engaged in a clear pattern of obstructing justice.

This short analysis may help in that regard, too from Reuters here.

Now this stunning update: Hannity and Nunes worked with Trump on Memo release from Media Matters here.

  

Related is this video clip from FOX News with Shep Smith (always good reporting from him):

Some believe that “Memogate” is a way for Trump to get rid of Mueller’s “boss,” Deputy AG Rob Rosenstein, who may have failed the so-called “Trump loyalty test.” Others think that Trump is directly targeting Mueller himself, though laughably, through AG Jeff Sessions who recused himself and angered Trump.

My B/L: The fact that Trump has given us every reason to take these stories very seriously is probably the most damning indictment of his entire presidency. 

To those with a working brain and limited biases, there may be no better indication that Trump really does have something horrible to hide in the Russia investigation than the grotesque lengths to which he and his GOP sycophants are willing to go in their effort to destroy the good people involved in it. That may not mean Russian “collusion,” but in a rational world there just has to be something awful to risk doing all of this (how the administration’s announcement this week that they will NOT be fully enforcing the sanctions against Russia has not been a FAR bigger news story, is a complete mystery to me).

As for the idea that maybe Nunes is really onto something big, this concept would require at least even a tenuously plausible theory to explain the vast conspiracy. 

Given what we already know, there are numerous data points which make that inherently impossible. (Again read the memo above – nothing in there we don’t know but that Nunes paints as critical – it is far from that – damaging yes, important overall – hardly).

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