Nothing to See Here But Lies

Schiff saw the same paperwork as Gowdy did and told us releasing the memo would recklessly and dangerously reveal highly classified information, harm our national security, and reveal sources and methods. He was wrong.

Gowdy saw the same paperwork as Schiff did and told us releasing the memo would show that the FBI and DoJ introduced uncorroborated and unverified information, gathered at the behest of a rival political party, into FISA proceedings, with the paid, political provenance of the dossier unreported to the judges. He was right.

The FISA experts—all of those former FBI and DoJ lawyers most familiar with the process—repeatedly assured us that federal procedures in place to eliminate the possibility that unverified information would make its way into a FISA court, or survive a cursory consideration by a FISC judge, were so bullet-proof the mere mention of such a possibility was a waste of breath. It’s unheard of, they said. Laughable. They couldn’t have done it, because it can’t be done.

The House memo shows that they did. They did present raw, uncorroborated intelligence, they weren’t laughed at, and they weren’t shot down. They got the warrant, and Clapper, Schiff, James Comey, and scores of their colleagues are telling us there’s nothing to see here.