The four-page memo not only fails to reveal a titanic scandal. It reveals no scandal at all. And that is even if you take it at face value — even though the FBI says it contains “material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy.”
The most astonishing thing about the memo is not some shocking new fact. (The memo contains none.) It’s that a partisan document, written by pro-Trump Republicans and declassified by Trump himself, actually ends up weakening Trump’s case that the probe is tainted.
Had Nunes simply declared that he had evidence that the FBI asked for a warrant based on information from Steele, and that he had evidence Steele was no fan of Trump, he would have received little coverage.
Only because the information was put in a classified memo, a memo framed as shocking by professional spinners, did it acquire mythical status.