{"id":16777,"date":"2018-07-23T19:54:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T00:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=16777"},"modified":"2018-07-23T19:54:44","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T00:54:44","slug":"nunes-memo-roundup-ctd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/07\/23\/nunes-memo-roundup-ctd-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Nunes Memo Roundup, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember the Nunes memo concerning the FISA<\/strong><\/em> warrant for Carter Page? On\u00a0Lawfare\u00a0<\/b><\/i>David Kris\u00a0opines\u00a0<\/a>on the release of the\u00a0Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act<\/b><\/i><\/a>(FISA<\/b><\/i>) warrant under an\u00a0FOIA<\/i><\/b>:<\/p>\n

First, a huge amount of information is redacted in these FISA applications, but they still represent a monumental disclosure to the public. The government considers FISA applications to be very sensitive\u2014and their disclosure, even heavily redacted, may have long-term, programmatic consequences long after we\u2019re finished with President Trump. The government seems to have accepted that FOIA applies to FISA.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The balancing act when it comes to these sorts of things is very difficult, indeed. Did ham-handed President Trump just make it worse?\u00a0Does he even get involved in this sort of thing?\u00a0<\/i>I don’t know.<\/p>\n

But the real story here is the vindication of the Democrats’ position in the Nunes Memo imbroglio, at least according to Kris:<\/p>\n

Now we have some additional information in the form of the redacted FISA applications themselves, and the Nunes memo looks even worse. In my earlier post, I observed that the FBI\u2019s disclosures about Steele were contained in a footnote, but argued that this did not detract from their sufficiency: \u201cAs someone who has read and approved many FISA applications and dealt extensively with the FISA Court, I will anticipate and reject a claim that the disclosure was somehow insufficient because it appeared in a footnote; in my experience, the court reads the footnotes.\u201d Now we can see that the footnote disclosing Steele\u2019s possible bias takes up more than a full page in the applications, so there is literally no way the FISA Court could have missed it. The FBI gave the court enough information to evaluate Steele\u2019s credibility.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also more detail on the previous disclosure from the House intelligence committee Democrats\u2019 memo on how Steele went to the press with the \u201cdossier\u201d when FBI Director James Comey sent his October 2016 letter to Congress disclosing the possible newfound importance of the Weiner laptop in the Clinton investigation. According to the FISA applications, Steele complained that Comey\u2019s action could influence the election. But when Steele went to the press, it caused FBI to close him out as an informant\u2014facts which are disclosed and cross-referenced in the footnote in bold text.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nunes’ mid-term opponent,\u00a0Andrew Janz<\/a>, has been handed a tool for his attempt to unseat Representative Nunes, and it should go something like this:<\/p>\n

Nunes was given the opportunity to take on an extremely responsible position, and he treated it disrespectively and completely missed its point, which would be to monitor the President, not to defend him against all charges. This has endangered the Country, and so Nunes must be replaced.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And were the FISA<\/strong><\/em> judges biased against Republicans? Kris again:<\/p>\n

But it is worth noting that\u2014and as the Democrats previously pointed out\u2014the judges who signed off on these four FISA applications were all appointed by Republican presidents, including one George H.W. Bush appointee (Anne Conway<\/a>), two George W. Bush appointees (Rosemary Collyer<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Michael Mosman<\/a>) and one Reagan appointee (Raymond Dearie<\/a>). I know some of those judges, and they certainly are not the types to let partisan politics affect their legal judgments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember the Nunes memo concerning the FISA warrant for Carter Page? On\u00a0Lawfare\u00a0David Kris\u00a0opines\u00a0on the release of the\u00a0Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act(FISA) warrant under an\u00a0FOIA: First, a huge amount of information is redacted in these FISA applications, but they still represent a monumental disclosure to the public. The government considers FISA applications \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16778,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16777\/revisions\/16778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}