Nunes cannot be trusted: former CIA analyst

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The memo itself would not pass a college writing class because it does not support its main thesis, which alleges that at the highest levels the FBI and Department of Justice potentially abused their powers related to an October 2016 FISA warrant application on Carter Page by relying too heavily on the Christopher Steele dossier. The problem is the memo doesn't offer any evidence of the potential abuse and, in fact, the memo undermines itself.

So says Jeff Asher, a counterintelligence analyst for the CIA for five years. His column essentially calls out Nunes for endangering this country and the work of intelligence agencies by releasing a highly partisan, fact-deficient memo which has compromised intelligence sources. This compromise is similar to when parts of the Steel memo were released which led to the death of at least one of the sources for the memo.

Asher goes on to say:

Also of note, the Russia investigation started in the summer of 2016, months before the Page FISA application was submitted. The memo confirms that Trump foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, not Page, provided the impetus for opening the counterintelligence investigation.​

His ending statement says it all:

Republicans who were so concerned about leaks of classified information during the last year are now pushing for the release of top secret information to the public, cherry-picked to undermine agencies for which they are meant to be stewards. From this point forward, the House Intelligence Committee's assessment of the intelligence community should be met with skepticism by the public and Congress alike. When we look back on this administration in a few years, we believe this incident will be marked as one of the worst cases of politicization of intelligence in modern American history.​

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/07/opinions/nunes-memo-opinion-asher-bakos-otis/index.html

 

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The memo itself would not pass a college writing class because it does not support its main thesis, which alleges that at the highest levels the FBI and Department of Justice potentially abused their powers related to an October 2016 FISA warrant application on Carter Page by relying too heavily on the Christopher Steele dossier. The problem is the memo doesn't offer any evidence of the potential abuse and, in fact, the memo undermines itself.

So says Jeff Asher, a counterintelligence analyst for the CIA for five years. His column essentially calls out Nunes for endangering this country and the work of intelligence agencies by releasing a highly partisan, fact-deficient memo which has compromised intelligence sources. This compromise is similar to when parts of the Steel memo were released which led to the death of at least one of the sources for the memo.

Asher goes on to say:

Also of note, the Russia investigation started in the summer of 2016, months before the Page FISA application was submitted. The memo confirms that Trump foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, not Page, provided the impetus for opening the counterintelligence investigation.​

His ending statement says it all:

Republicans who were so concerned about leaks of classified information during the last year are now pushing for the release of top secret information to the public, cherry-picked to undermine agencies for which they are meant to be stewards. From this point forward, the House Intelligence Committee's assessment of the intelligence community should be met with skepticism by the public and Congress alike. When we look back on this administration in a few years, we believe this incident will be marked as one of the worst cases of politicization of intelligence in modern American history.​

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/07/opinions/nunes-memo-opinion-asher-bakos-otis/index.html

he's preaching to the choir. remember nunes running to trump to report a few months ago and how even the few moral republicans at the time said he should step down from the committee? everyone already knows he's a scumbag which is why the "memo bombshell" had the effect of a fart in the bathtub. if i were president and had the intelligence of, say, a house plant, would i REALLY want to piss off the intelligence agencies that are already collecting info on me? i guess they all forgot to read the chapter in the history book on bobby kennedy/j. edgar hoover.