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OliverQ

(3,363 posts)
Sun Jan 28, 2018, 11:47 PM Jan 2018

Do you think Trump will declassify Nunes' memo?

Lots of Trump supporters talking about the memo being declassified, maybe tomorrow. A former prosecutor said he'd file criminal charges against Nunes if it gets released.

What are the implications if it does get released? Will it benefit Trump by showing abuse of the FISA warrant, it will it again implicate Nunes in a criminal conspiracy to protect Trump?

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pnwmom

(108,980 posts)
5. And he wrote it WITHOUT the benefit of being able to read the classified
Sun Jan 28, 2018, 11:55 PM
Jan 2018

documents it referred to.

That's what the Justice Dept. deputy said to him in the letter, asking him NOT to release it till the JD had approved the release.

hedda_foil

(16,375 posts)
11. He didn't write it, a staffer who may actually have read the material wrote it for him.
Mon Jan 29, 2018, 12:39 AM
Jan 2018

I wonder if he even read the four page memo. Maybe he just skipped to the talking points on the memo that was loosely based on highly classified material.

But yeah. Theyll manage to turn it into something bigger than BENGHAZI!!!

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
2. Pretty sure the public humiliation of Hannity and Ron Johnson ...
Sun Jan 28, 2018, 11:52 PM
Jan 2018

Will lead him to the correct conclusion that it will make him a laughing stock.

Then again ... what am I saying, both Trump and Nunes are idiots, as is their knuckle-dragging cult.

But still ... I'm going w/NO. "The (rumors of the) Memo" has already served it's purpose, there's no real 'win' for them in putting it out at this point.

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,330 posts)
14. Agree. It serves as a great conspiracy. It would probably fall apart.
Mon Jan 29, 2018, 12:49 AM
Jan 2018

But who knows, even if it falls apart it's not like anyone in the bubble on bullshit mountain will know about it

Lithos

(26,403 posts)
3. Doubt it will be released
Sun Jan 28, 2018, 11:52 PM
Jan 2018

Last heard, Nunes has not shown the contents to the White House. So, Trump is operating in his usual mental vacuum of non-think. Given Nunes is using this as a nothing-burger where the only value is in it's not being released, it's doubtful the White House staff will let Trump do anything to lessen it's value - ie, release it.

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