On the recordFebruary 5, 2018
Last Friday, the Nunes memo was released over the objections of the FBI, the Department of Justice, Democratic Members of the House Intelligence Committee, and several Republican Senators. This selectively edited document was political in nature from the outset, as is evident in the gap between what some of my colleagues claimed it contained and what the memo actually says. The Nunes memo focuses on the most recent warrants for surveillance of Carter Page, who has reportedly been under watch since 2013 for his relationship with the Russian Government, years before his involvement with the Trump campaign. Yet this document in no way questions those facts, while new reporting has since revealed that Mr. Page boasted of his role as a Kremlin adviser as far back as 5 years ago, when the first FISA warrants against him were reportedly issued. As Oversight Chairman Gowdy has noted, the Nunes memo has no impact on the Russia probe, and Special Counsel Mueller's work must continue unabated to allow the American public to know the full truth. ____________________
