NEWSLINK: “The Nunes memo shows the opposite of what Trump hoped it would prove” – Washington Post

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“… The memo argues that the FBI may have abused special spying authority under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), obtaining a warrant to surveil former Trump adviser Carter Page using information from the controversial Steele dossier, a collection of allegations about Mr. Trump and his circle assembled by a former British intelligence agent with funding from Democrats. The memo claims that the FBI did not disclose the dossier’s full provenance in its application for a FISA warrant, suggesting that the warrant against Mr. Page – and, therefore, perhaps, the early stages of the Russia investigation – was tainted. …”

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