Trey Gaudy, très bêtes

It turns out when you boil it down, that Trey Gaudy's bone of contention with the FBI is really about font size. The Nunes memo, which he was trying to defend on Face the Nation this morning, alleges that the FISA warrant was granted solely on the back of the uncorroborated "opposition research" Steele dossier. This claim is almost certainly false because 1) this was a FISA warrant "renewal", not the first granting and the FISA process requires the judges, plural, hearing the application demand that prior warrants have produced material intelligence, 2) the filing contained a great deal of other supporting documentation, so the Steele dossier was by no means the only evidence presented, nor indeed was it likely to have been pivotal, and 3) the fact that the Steele dossier was opposition research was caveat-ed in the filing as a footnote. So it would seem that it is the size of the font of that foot note that is the central claim of malfeasance in the Nunes memo.