You may have noticed from your social media feeds

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You may have noticed from your social media feeds that there is a new conservative chew-toy going around. It is The Memo, as in #ReleaseTheMemo. From Politico:

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/18/rep...fbi-348024

Conaway noted that the classified report would probably remain off-limits to the public, though all members of the House are permitted to view it.

But by releasing it to other House members, it gave Trump allies outside the Intelligence Committee a chance to batter FBI leadership and underscore complaints they’ve raised about the agency’s handling of its investigation of Trump associates’ contacts with Russia. Throughout the day Thursday, a handful of Trump’s top House allies began calling for the immediate public release of the report.

For the purposes of discrediting the investigations into the president*’s contacts with the Russians, the Republicans are now pretending to argue with themselves in public, an exercise in political kabuki designed to gin up Da Base and to cloud the issue of the president*”s relations with the Volga Bagmen.

That investigation, led by Nunes, focused on what some Republicans on the panel have come to view as abuses of the FISA process by senior FBI and DOJ officials, as well as the handling of a disputed Trump-Russia dossier by intelligence and law enforcement officials.

Devin Nunes, of course, is the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee who torched his own credibility by essentially functioning as a White House messenger.

The ever-essential Marcy Wheeler pointed out two things about Nunes on the electric Twitter machine on Friday afternoon: first, that he and most of the #ReleaseTheMemo crowd voted last week to give what they think of as a corrupt FBI increased surveillance powers over every American , .... square THAT circle shademeister. It will require you to proceed to the Single Standards and Consistency Store and pick yourself up some of each.

and second, that Nunes was the driving force behind a shabby committee report concerning the revelations of Edward Snowden.

It’s all a farce, but it has legs and it should be watched very carefully.

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