While not as dramatic as the hyperbole leading up to it, release of the
Nunes memo confirmed:
1) that the Christopher Steele
"Russia dossier" (commissioned by the Hillary Clinton campaign, and provably salacious and untrue) was the basis for the FISA surveillance request on Trump officials
Carter Page, General Flynn, and Paul Manafort.
2) That the only verification of the dossier in obtaining the FISA surveillance request was a Yahoo News article by Michael Isikoff (which was in fact sourced from a press release to Isikoff by Christopher Steele, printed almost verbatim by Isikoff, and therefore not an actual second verifying source.)
3) As Andrew McCabe stated in congressional testimony, without the "Russia dossier", there would have been no basis for the FISA surveillance of Trump officials. IT NEVER WOULD HAVE BEEN APPROVED, AND WAS OBTAINED WITH FALSE EVIDENCE.
4) That Andrew McCabe, James Comey and others KNEW the "Russian dossier" basis for the FISA surveillance request on Trump officials was false evidence when they submitted it. That if a police officer or attorney did the same as McCabe and Comey, it would cost them their badges, and likely result in charges that would put them in jail.
5) The judges who approved the surveillance are in question too, for not investigating the evidence submitted to them by McCabe and Comey. And they could rescind the FISA surveillance order, ending all charges against Carter Page, General Flynn, and Paul Manafort. Fruit of a poisoned tree, that would throw all the evidence out of court, for the false pretenses under which it was obtained.
Finally (my own speculation) the fact that (5) has not occurred yet makes me wonder if the judges who approved the secret court FISA request are Deep State conspirators as well, that they are not outraged by the deceit of McCabe and Comey that allowed them to get the FISA request, and that they have not demanded that the poisoned fruit be thrown out by rescinding their initial FISA surveillance approval.
