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<blockquote data-quote="BrownArmy" data-source="post: 3342115" data-attributes="member: 18225"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/opinion/nunes-memo-trump-taxes.html?action=click&amp;contentCollection=Politics&amp;module=RelatedCoverage&amp;region=EndOfArticle&amp;pgtype=article" target="_blank">We’ve Got the Memo. Now What About Trump’s Tax Returns?</a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/opinion/nunes-memo-trump-taxes.html?action=click&amp;contentCollection=Politics&amp;module=RelatedCoverage&amp;region=EndOfArticle&amp;pgtype=article" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/opinion/nunes-memo-trump-taxes.html?action=click&amp;contentCollection=Politics&amp;module=RelatedCoverage&amp;region=EndOfArticle&amp;pgtype=article" target="_blank">&quot;...This is all potentially interesting information. How significant is it in context? For starters, what other evidence did the intelligence court rely on in finding probable cause to issue the warrant? The memo doesn’t say. What about the court’s rationale for issuing three separate extensions, each of which required investigators to present new evidence beyond the dossier? The memo doesn’t say. Was any significant piece of information in the dossier found to be inaccurate? The memo doesn’t say. Did the court assume bias on the part of Mr. Steele or the funders of his research, as courts regularly do when considering evidence supporting a request for a warrant? The memo doesn’t say.</a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/opinion/nunes-memo-trump-taxes.html?action=click&amp;contentCollection=Politics&amp;module=RelatedCoverage&amp;region=EndOfArticle&amp;pgtype=article" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/opinion/nunes-memo-trump-taxes.html?action=click&amp;contentCollection=Politics&amp;module=RelatedCoverage&amp;region=EndOfArticle&amp;pgtype=article" target="_blank">You know what would help to answer questions like these? Even more transparency. It would be useful, for instance, if we could see all of the supporting evidence in the warrant application — with necessary redactions, of course, to protect sources and methods. Also helpful would be the 10-page response memo prepared by Representative Adam Schiff, the committee’s ranking Democrat, who, unlike Mr. Nunes, has actually seen the intelligence underlying the application...&quot;</a></blockquote>

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