I guess all I wanted to say was something I read in a Twitter thread by Kimberley Strassel.
At the time it dropped, the Nunes Memo made a big splash, with many people (myself included) who had argued the FISA process with Carter Page had potentially serious problems feeling vindicated. And the Nunes Memo is in complete accord with the IG report.
But Schiff came out with his own competing memo at the time, and it came to completely different conclusions than the Nunes Memo. It is also at odds with what we know now from the IG report. He had the same information Nunes had, yet contradicted what we now know to be the facts. His job at the time seems to have been, in hindsight, to just control the narrative. Who could possibly know who was telling the truth at the time, and by the time people knew, it would be well past the expiration date. Who even remembers the Nunes Memo? It was just two entities with security clearance arguing about what the secure documents said; they could get away with a lot. And it turns out it wasn't Nunes fudging the facts, it was Schiff.
I bring it up because this is the guy who just ran the impeachment process, as Strassel notes. Schiff pulled a fast one and nobody is too fired up about it. I would have genuinely been disappointed if Nunes had tried to put up his memo as a stunt when he knew there were little grounds for his claims. But it wasn't a stunt. So Schiff threw out a competing memo at odds with the facts from the
same source material, and that turned out to be the stunt, we now know.
It's a good thread:
https://www.twitter.com/KimStrassel/...00899133919232