[ironman]

Isn’t the first bullet misleading (that because the FBI did not receive the Steele dossier until Sept 2016 it did not inform the start of the investigation). I thought Steele met with the FBI in early July 2016, even before they were aware of what Popadopolis had blurbed in a bar months earlier (that Russia may have Crooked’s deleted emails). The Aussie’s didn’t bring it up to the US until Wikileaks started publishing the hacked DNC emails later in July.

[Cboldt]

I'll confess to not being up to speed on the details. I don;t recall Nunes making any argument or statement about "start of the investigation in July 2016," but even if he did, of course he would not associate that with evidence that didn't exist until months later.

Schiff's first bullet makes me wonder if the Clinton dossier wasn't part of the justification to snoop on the Trump campaign in July 2016, then what was?

[Almondjoy]

Considering they the FBI was considering payment to Steele, they knew full well some of the information that was going to be disclosed, very disinegenous.

[Cboldt]

Just opened the Nunes memo ... most of it is a timeline that starts in September 2016. However, the last page supports Schiff. It even ID’s the info used. Papadopolous info triggered opening a counterintelligence investigation, by Strzok, in July 2016.

[ironman]

“Isn’t the first bullet misleading (that because the FBI did not receive the Steele dossier until Sept 2016 it did not inform the start of the investigation). I thought Steele met with the FBI in early July 2016, even before they were aware of what Popadopolis had blurbed in a bar months earlier (that Russia may have Crooked’s deleted emails). The Aussie’s didn’t bring it up to the US until Wikileaks started publishing the hacked DNC emails later in July.”

Bringing this thread back to life. So the Rats were wrong in their response.