The memo(s)

More like they Democrats used the power of the DOJ and FBI to spy on political opponents in corroboration with the DNC and Hillary campaign.  I can assure you with certainty that the Republicans didn't do that.

Hillary's campaign oppo resarch was used to weaponize the intelligence community against the Trump campaign.  (illegal)
Senior DOJ/FBI staff hid information from teh FISA court about the origins of the dossier.  They pretended that they didn't know about it, but did.
The DOJ officials used Yahoo News as further evidence to corroborate the FISA warrant to the FISA court, but failed to disclose that Yahoo was fed by steele.  Basically circular reporting which is a cardinal sin in the intelligence network. 

Remember when everyone was trying to say Trumps campaign was just wire tapped incidentally when we were tapping foreign people?  hah
Then throw in the massive quantities of unmasking where the white house was getting recordings of all these conversations with names associated to them.  I feel this memo is just the tip of the iceberg.
Remember, Watergate was from some Nixon aids breaking into the DNC HQ to steal information about their opposing campaign.  This is Hillary, the DNC, the DOJ and of course Obama by proxy using the entire power of the US Government to continuously spy on the Republican nominee throughout the campaign.  yeesh

That's it? This is the proof that the FBI and DOJ were targeting the Trump campaign? 

What more do you need?  They took "trumped up" information provided by the DNC and Hillary Campaign to the FISA court to get a warrant to surveil the political campaign of Trump and you're saying "that's it"?

Even after the FBI completely discredited the dossier and witheld payment to Steele, they continued to use it at the court and renew the warrants throughout the campaign.  FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe flat out said that the warrant against Page would not have been granted without the dossier.

Look at the dates Tony! They got their FISA warrant late October 2016. So let's go to the Trump campaign a month earlier and see what they had to say about Mr. Page.

Trump campaign communication director Jason Miller "Mr. Page is not an advisor and has made no contribution to the campaign." " I've never spoken to him, and wouldn't recognize him if he were sitting next to me." "He’s never been a part of our campaign. Period."

Trump spokesman Steven Cheung "We are not aware of any of his activities, past or present."

The delightful Kellyanne Conway "He's certainly not part of the campaign I'm running." "I have not spoken with him at all, in fact, meaning he's not part of our national security or foreign policy briefings that we do now at all, certainly not since I have become campaign manager."

So a month after all of that was very publicly stated, this is how the FBI attempted to surveil the political campaign of Trump? LMAO! Seriously, you can't make this stuff up. 

Links in case you don't trust me to accurate quote people here and here

I'm with you there. I have no idea why the Dems fought this release. 

One thing that's confusing to me is the timelines.  For example, as you pointed out, the memo mentions that the FBI and DOJ sought and received a FISA probable cause order authorizing electronic surveillance of Carter Page from the FISC.  Then it goes on to say the FISA order has to be renewed by the FISC every 90 days and each renewal requires a separate finding of probable cause.  It says Comey signed three applications, Andrew McCabe signed one.  Then Sally Yates, Dana Boente, and Rosenstein each signed one or more. 
Not sure if those are separate (non-Page) incidents or if they're renewals of the Page one that don't make sense form a timeline standpoint.

Sadly, you are probably correct.

However, there are blatant laws that were broken in this process that could quite easily be prosecuted so who knows.

The most glaring one is the DNC/HRC camps using a lawfirm to launder campaign money to Fusion GPS to hire foreign opposition research.  This is a blatant campaign law violation and likely several other laws related to wire fraud and such due to how the money was hidden.

Also, don't forget we are only seeing what they're letting us see.  There's a TON more information that's not being disclosed such as who was recorded, what was said, who was it distributed to, who unmasked the names, etc.  There's a lot more scandals behind other scandals.
It wouldn't surprise me that the threat of prosecution could be leveraged for political gains in other areas.  I don't like it, but it's probably going to happen.  most notably, I think of Obama.  He was very outspoken against Trump in the very early days and then shortly after the "Obama wire tapped me" tweet he's been a ghost.   It wouldn't surprise me if there was a conversation about him laying low being in his best interests going forward.  (total speculation on my part of course)

It gets better.  The author of the Yahoo article cited as corroborating evidence by the FBI worked for Fusion GPS.  You can't make this stuff up.

Also, remember that the Russian chick that had the awkward meeting with Don Jr. and company.  Said she had bad stuff on Hillary, but then wanted to talk about adoption when she got there.  She was also hired by Fusion GPS.

So basically Fusion GPS wasn't just an oppo research outfit, they were an oppo manufacturing outfit.  They manufactured the Russian interference story, they manufactured the Steele dossier, they manufactured corroborating evidence.  From the very beginning it all revolved around them and it was paid for by the DNC, HRC, and the FBI.  Absolutely incredible

Oh, and I'm still waiting for the rebuttal.  The only thing I've heard is "there were omissions".   OK, what was omitted?

From 4chan.  Kind of hard to argue with any of it.

Definitely a nothingburger

I don't necessarily think it was to throw cover, but the entire Russian collusion charge stemmed from this very investigation.  If the foundation of the investigation was a fake dossier then the investigation is over.  I think it's pretty fair to say there is no crime and there was no crime when it comes to collusion, so Mueller is simply trying to lay purjury traps for everyone and see if he can knock out a couple more people with any inconsistencies.

It appears there's a second memo that's coming about state department abuses, and I've seen the below information mentioned in several places.  The FBI agent who interviewed Flynn was Strzok.

I think I figured out why we haven't heard out of LB for a couple days:

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