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Nomadic View posted...

Its confirmation of widespread speculation.

True
There was a FISA surveillance on Page since 2013 - they had recordings from Russian spies that Carter was their agent
The counterintelligence investigation began before the FISA applications against Page, Papadopoulos was already under investigation

Really wouldn't be surprised if the memo is going to backfire on them. They think the memo says "the FBI used information from the Steele memos," but it ends up confirming a lot of the information reported by the "fake news."
Now we have government confirmation that Carter Page was under investigation since 2013, Papadopoulos was the reason the FBI started a counter-intelligence investigation into the Trump campaign, and that a Trump appointed member of the Justice Department thought the evidence against Page was strong enough to approve a renewal of a FISA warrant.
And what gets me is that the biggest paragraph is the last one. Basically confirmed the investigation started with Papadopoulus and the Australians, not Carter Page. So they inadvertently confirmed something (the NYT story) they claimed was fake news.

They're hoping that the Trump-faithful will completely over-look the fact that there are, in fact, many reasons why the FBI should be investigating Page's shady dealings and instead focus on the words "Clinton," "Democrats," "clear bias against Trump," etc.

This memo was set up for a single reason: give the right-wing propaganda machine enough faux-ammo to cry "BIAS" and hope it works well enough that this whole "Russia thing" goes away.
Guess what: it's not. And if you think it is, you're being played.
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There are some things where I just bypass critical thinking. - ROD