Seth Abramson has done a signature tear-down of the memo. It’s the best analysis I’ve read so far.
In other words, this memo is written like a campaign ad—not an official document, and *certainly* not a legal document. It gets every fact wrong and every point of law wrong and *wildly* so. This is an embarrassing piece of work, but I'll keep on analyzing it anyway. We must.
Unrolled-for-easy-reading thread here: [72 tweets from @SethAbramson]
This isn’t much of a diary, but I know some folks appreciate Seth’s analyses and like getting a heads-up. If you don’t appreciate his work, you really don’t need to tell me or anyone else. Please, no pie fights today.
If you prefer reading on Twitter, here’s the starting tweet:
In closing…
PS/ I really want to hammer home a point: the sum total result of this memo is a catastrophic *underscoring* of how bad a situation this is for Trump and how *little* bias—to be clear, zero—was involved in his treatment by the FBI. This memo *supports* Trump critics' contentions.