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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 02:26 PM Feb 2018

'Are you kidding me?' National security lawyer tears apart Nunes' 'pathetic joke' of a memo

BRAD REED
02 FEB 2018 AT 13:07 ET

The controversial Nunes memo is out — and one national security expert is decidedly unimpressed.

Bradley Moss, an attorney who specializes in litigating national security matters, has written a tweet storm in which he shreds the memo and says that he believes it amounts to a “pathetic joke.”

“This is the scandal??” Moss writes incredulously of the memo. “Are you kidding me?”

He then goes on to explain why there is simply no major scandal embedded within Nunes’ memo, and he says that British spy Michael Steele’s personal biases against then-candidate Donald Trump are completely irrelevant to whether a FISA court should have granted the FBI a FISA warrant to surveil former Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page.

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https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/kidding-national-security-lawyer-tears-apart-nunes-pathetic-joke-memo/
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'Are you kidding me?' National security lawyer tears apart Nunes' 'pathetic joke' of a memo (Original Post) DonViejo Feb 2018 OP
Great post! triron Feb 2018 #1
The memo is so very very weak that it is funny Gothmog Feb 2018 #2
Everything related to Trump is weak. C Moon Feb 2018 #17
LOL those poor, dumb Republican staffers thought they were geniuses, until procon Feb 2018 #3
How many staffers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? BigmanPigman Feb 2018 #14
Trick question gratuitous Feb 2018 #16
It works the other way around. keithbvadu2 Feb 2018 #20
This was the bunch who couldn't figure out how to turn the lights on in the WH. procon Feb 2018 #19
So the guy who requires loyalty oaths is concerned with bias? Mr. Ected Feb 2018 #4
The Nunes Memo is a yawner. TomSlick Feb 2018 #5
The memo is a joke. Hamlette Feb 2018 #6
K&R... spanone Feb 2018 #7
K&R Solly Mack Feb 2018 #8
isn't the steele of the dossier named christopher? niyad Feb 2018 #9
Steele, Christopher Steele. lagomorph777 Feb 2018 #13
Yes. Michael Steele is the former chairman of the RNC. nt tblue37 Feb 2018 #15
And, what does the term bias mean? spooky3 Feb 2018 #10
Nunes is starting to cost Turbineguy Feb 2018 #11
Covfefe Boy Papadapadupadoppolos is to blame, not Steele. lagomorph777 Feb 2018 #12
Heard Rick Wilson describe it as a fart in a windstorm. Enoki33 Feb 2018 #18
This guy is NOT on our side -- not at all RandomAccess Feb 2018 #21
"a hack, stupid, nave, incompetent and/or is completely and unapologetically unaware" lindysalsagal Feb 2018 #22

procon

(15,805 posts)
3. LOL those poor, dumb Republican staffers thought they were geniuses, until
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 02:35 PM
Feb 2018

the experts like Brad Moss took them to school.



procon

(15,805 posts)
19. This was the bunch who couldn't figure out how to turn the lights on in the WH.
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 05:24 PM
Feb 2018

Forget the lightbulbs, their problems are much worse than that.


Donald Trump’s team cannot find the light switches to the cabinet room in which they conduct their meetings, and have to speak in the dark and feel their way out of the room, according to a report that sheds interesting detail on life inside the White House.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-bannon-conway-meetings-light-switch-darkness-a7565136.html

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
4. So the guy who requires loyalty oaths is concerned with bias?
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 02:36 PM
Feb 2018

Retroactively?

This is as laughable as the tagline "fair and balanced".

TomSlick

(11,098 posts)
5. The Nunes Memo is a yawner.
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 02:36 PM
Feb 2018

Even taken at face value, it says nothing.

Either Nunes or I are missing something.

Hamlette

(15,412 posts)
6. The memo is a joke.
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 02:44 PM
Feb 2018

As a lawyer I think of things differently and these posts hit upon my reaction. It doesn't matter if Steele was a Hillary supporter. Shit, the majority of Americans were. Nunes is a tool.

spooky3

(34,457 posts)
10. And, what does the term bias mean?
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 04:55 PM
Feb 2018

If you discovered a lot of evidence suggesting a candidate was guilty of a lot of wrongdoing, any reasonable and objective person would disapprove of the candidate.

It’s an ad hominem attack. Are the facts Steele alleged supported with evidence?

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
12. Covfefe Boy Papadapadupadoppolos is to blame, not Steele.
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 05:03 PM
Feb 2018

How was this supposed to work? I don't get it? Is Nunes just trying to give us all a nice laugh on Superbowl weekend?

 

RandomAccess

(5,210 posts)
21. This guy is NOT on our side -- not at all
Sat Feb 3, 2018, 02:03 PM
Feb 2018

In this thread of his:





Trump's winning caused a problem for Comey & Comey's firing caused a problem for Rosenstein. Both Comey & Rosenstein signed off on the bogus affidavits to the FISA court to continue spying on Trump team members post-election and post-inauguration. They needed Mueller to cover up.

Key fact about Mueller: he is very close friends with Comey, and was the mentor and close friend of Rosenstein. Mueller is also expert at covering up for lawless law enforcement: see his role with Whitey Bulger, BCCI, HSBC, Waco, Noriega, IRS/Tea Party & Fast & Furious.

FBI turned over their NSA spying capacity to a private lobbying company in order to promote a smear campaign against a domestic political opponent. Fearing being caught, they appointed a special counsel (Mueller) to cover for them by accusing the man (Trump) who might expose them

Last addendum: FISA court was created in 1978 as a post-Watergate reform to PREVENT exactly what happened here.

lindysalsagal

(20,692 posts)
22. "a hack, stupid, nave, incompetent and/or is completely and unapologetically unaware"
Sat Feb 3, 2018, 02:13 PM
Feb 2018

Hey Bradley: you left out "narcissistic" , "illiterate", and "she can't effing stand the sight of you, asshat."

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