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<blockquote data-quote="MAKAVELI" data-source="post: 3339376" data-attributes="member: 43825"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-director-prepared-to-issue-rebuttal-if-nunes-memo-released-fran-townsend/" target="_blank">FBI director prepared to issue rebuttal if Nunes memo released, Fran Townsend says</a>The<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-has-grave-concerns-about-releasing-gop-memo/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab4i" target="_blank"> FBI issued a statement Wednesday</a> that they have &quot;grave concerns&quot; about the memo and the &quot;material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo&#039;s accuracy.&quot;&quot;I think we have to remember the Nunes memo is an advocacy piece. It&#039;s not a fact piece. This is Chairman Nunes&#039; summary of what he believes the abuses are. For that reason, it&#039;s one-sided,&quot; Townsend said. Townsend, who spent 13 years at the Justice Department, said it&#039;s simply &quot;not possible&quot; for one partisan actor to push through a FISA warrant or to obtain one based on a single piece of evidence.&quot;There&#039;s multiple internal reviews in the FBI, there&#039;s a legal review at the Justice Department, it goes to the attorney general, or in this case, the deputy who reviews it and then it goes to an independent federal judge who looks at it. No FISA warrant relies on a single piece of evidence. So if the allegation from Chairman Nunes is that they relied solely on the Steele dossier, that&#039;s not possible. It never happens,&quot; she said.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MAKAVELI, post: 3339376, member: 43825"] [URL="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-director-prepared-to-issue-rebuttal-if-nunes-memo-released-fran-townsend/"]FBI director prepared to issue rebuttal if Nunes memo released, Fran Townsend says[/URL] The[URL='https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-has-grave-concerns-about-releasing-gop-memo/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab4i'] FBI issued a statement Wednesday[/URL] that they have "grave concerns" about the memo and the "material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo's accuracy." "I think we have to remember the Nunes memo is an advocacy piece. It's not a fact piece. This is Chairman Nunes' summary of what he believes the abuses are. For that reason, it's one-sided," Townsend said. Townsend, who spent 13 years at the Justice Department, said it's simply "not possible" for one partisan actor to push through a FISA warrant or to obtain one based on a single piece of evidence. "There's multiple internal reviews in the FBI, there's a legal review at the Justice Department, it goes to the attorney general, or in this case, the deputy who reviews it and then it goes to an independent federal judge who looks at it. No FISA warrant relies on a single piece of evidence. So if the allegation from Chairman Nunes is that they relied solely on the Steele dossier, that's not possible. It never happens," she said. [/QUOTE]

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