10 Actual Very Smart People Who Might Even Be Very Stable Geniuses Explaining Why the Nunes Memo Is a Joke

‘This Is a Complete Sham’

The highly controversial Nunes memo that was supposed to discredit the FBI and, in the words of Fox News host Sean Hannity, reveal a scandal that “will make Watergate look like a parking ticket,” is looking like not even a parking ticket.

It’s a dud.

Before its release GOP Congressman Steve King of Iowa ludicrously insisted the memo is “worse than Watergate” and suggested it would take down former President Barack Obama:

You can read the four-page memo here, but since most people are not attorneys, much less experts in intelligence gathering or prosecutions, it’s probably a good idea to see what actual experts who are, in fact, “like, really smart,” and possibly even “very stable geniuses,” to see what they think.

Fortunately, there are such people who have already weighed in on the Nunes memo. Here’s what some of them have to say.

President, Council on Foreign Relations:

Washington Post’s Fact Checker columnist:

Sr. Fellow at Brookings:

Washington Post intelligence & national security correspondent:

Democratic Vice Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee:

Senior Writer at the (very right wing) National Review:

New York Times reporter:

Staff Writer at The Atlantic:

Director of the Aspen Institute’s Cybersecurity & Technology Program:

And this thread from a former federal prosecutor running to be Attorney General of Illinois: