unless one happens to be a Putin supporter.

This was the best the WH could come up with so far.

I see no problem.

but think they know more that a federal judge.

... Dems in congress or specialist talking heads bring this up except this one judge. Instead they are at pains to point out that the last para in "the memo" invalidates their claim that it was THE source. But, hey, so what if it was THE source?

You guys watch for the good stuff so I don't have to see the rest. Thanks DU!

It's just that about 30% of average Americans turn out to be rabid zombies.

They just want their tax cuts.

that democrats had paid for the dossier......irrelevant

and mr tapper, according to Mr. Schiff the FISA court knew it.

That's it.

I just heard a reference to a poll that 47% of people believe the FBI is compromised because of this “memo”. My guess is that probably 95% of the people polled who said this haven’t bothered to read the memo, whereas I would venture that probably 95% of the people who frequent this website couldn’t wait to read it for themselves.

was paid for by the Clinton Administration (they almost never mention that the dossier was originally purchased for/by a republican or that the Steele dossier is ACCURATE), any FISA warrant issued on its basis constitutes a political witch hunt by the FBI under the Obama Administration...

It's all grasping at straws on the part of the Russians/republicans but to their low-info supporters, FISA warrants issued on the basis of the dossier are the smoking gun that proves Obama spied on Trump during the election campaign...

Republicans are good at some things.

The sucky things.

The right wing owns the microphone so idiotic narratives that serve the right wing must go unchallenged.

Nothing else in the Russian investigation involves Democrats because John McCain, Peter Strzok (who voted for Kasich in Repub primary), James Comey, Rosenstein, Mueller, McCabe (who voted in Repub primary and didn't vote in general) and the other officials and investigators were Republicans and Bush/Trump appointees (except a few of Mueller's most recent prosecutors) Glenn Simpson of Fusion has investigated people of all political stripes and Christopher Steele is a British citizen with no involvement in US politics.

So once they discovered that Fusion GPS 's hiring of Steele was paid by a Clinton Campaign lawyer, that gave them a way to claim the entire probe is merely a partisan Democratic plot that should be discredited.

Democrats didn't reach out to hire Fusion GPS, but after Fusion had conducted several months of research into Trump (before Steele was hired and before Trump won primary) Fusion's Glenn Simpson reached out to contact someone connected to Hillary's campaign to solicit funding for the investigation of Trump to be continued.

When you're facing possibly spending the rest of your life in the slammer and going down in history as the most corrupt U.S. President ever, you'll pretty much try anything to see if it will stick. The fact that this was the best they could come up with tells me they are in VERY DEEP TROUBLE.

Friday night; Ari, Tweety, Rachel and Lawrence all had guests on discussing it.

get an extension if they had not been getting information from the investigation that was already in progress and had been since before the Trump campaign even started.

The Republicans look for any excuse to dismiss unhelpful information. Their reason might not make sense. They might know it doesn't make sense. But they will still use it if they think it will work to their political ends.

No truth at all

Yep