Devin Nunes’s Nothingburger

Devin Nunes’s Nothingburger
Yet the bureau only obtained a surveillance warrant after Page had left the campaign
and shortly before the election, and it insisted throughout the campaign that Trump was not a target of investigation.
The memo also claims this relationship was not disclosed to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Court when the Justice Department applied for a surveillance warrant on Page.
“It has become clear that you possess explosive information about close ties
and coordination between Donald Trump, his top advisers and the Russian government,” then Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid angrily wrote James Comey in late October 2016.
The memo does seem to have uncovered conflicts of interest at the Justice Department, most seriously by then-Associate Deputy Attorney General
Bruce Ohr, whose wife was working for Fusion GPS (and thus, by extension, the Clinton campaign) on opposition research on Trump.
Paul Manafort, the Trump campaign chairman until August 2016, is credibly alleged to have received $12.7 million
in “undisclosed cash payments” from then-Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, a Russian stooge.