From
Walter Shapiro, in The Guardian:
To summarize: in a document that the FBI called inaccurate, House
Republicans claim that the Democrats had some shadowy role in a
pre-election Fisa warrant against a “very low-level” Trump adviser who
had already left the campaign. Compared with the Nunes memo, the
never-ending, dry-hole Republican Benghazi investigations look like
textbook examples of prudent congressional oversight.
To Trumpian true believers, the Nunes memo proves that the FBI and
the rest of the Deep State were conspiring to throw the election to
Hillary. Of course, this omits the pesky detail that on 28 October 2016,
the FBI director, James Comey, announced that he was reopening the
Clinton email investigation based on what had been found on Anthony
Weiner’s computer.
Guess which late October event had more effect on wavering 2016
voters: Comey’s dramatic public statement raising fresh doubts about the
Democratic nominee or a secret warrant against a peripheral Trump
adviser?
And this:
All this raises the question of why Nunes, the Republican majority on
the House intelligence committee, Paul Ryan and Trump were so willing
to go to war with the FBI over a cap-gun memo. We even have
hyper-ventilating Republican congressmen shouting “treason”.
The glib answer is that this a pretext for Trump to fire Mueller and
the deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein. But Mueller is never
mentioned in the Nunes memo and Rosenstein makes only a cameo
appearance. More attention is devoted to articles by journalists David
Corn (Mother Jones) and Mike Isikoff (Yahoo News).
Perhaps a more convincing answer is that we have reached that
alarming moment when right-wing Republicans actually believe the
conspiracy theories peddled by the likes of Sean Hannity on Fox News,
who claims the memo reveals an “attempted coup” against Donald Trump plotted by the “Deep State”.
And for more Australian Right wingnut stupidity, here's Mark
Lithium Latham:
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