NYT article explaining FISA and why The Memo is a desperate propaganda ploy:
If The Memo is released then the Information to Obtain (ITO), filed to obtain that warrant, which is no doubt very detailed and from multiple sources and very long, should be released, or a redacted version.
They will go after the Steele dossier as being "incomplete Clinton research" without the full context, or ALL the info the FISA court saw. Which is where security issues arise. How many confidential sources did the FBI use? Even disclosing Steele information was used is irresponsible...future informants might want to think twice if Congress can by pass law enforcement promises of confidentiality!
Who and what will Nunes reveal and what will he hide, under cover of "security"? The Democratic memo no doubt makes that clear, so must be released or at least mirrored in public comments...which will happen, no doubt.
So I am not that worried about all this. This hair on fire will will fizzle shortly because the ploy is so transparent and so foolish. I do not think Nunes thought this through.
As a last resort the FISA court has a Chief and itself could intervene and inform the public Nunes is lying. A Courts credibility being questioned like this is yet another unacceptable attack on the rule of law.
"Rosenstein’s signing off on applying for an extension indicates that the Trump administration’s Justice Department agreed that there was probable cause that the president’s former campaign aide was an agent for Russia. Another implication of Mr. Rosenstein’s move is that he, too, approved providing Mr. Steele’s information to the FISA court — an act many Republicans and conservative news media commentators are portraying as scandalous."
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/29/us/politics/fisa-surveillance-applications-how-they-work.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
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