efernand wrote:
"According to the head of the FBI's counterintelligence division, Assistant Director Bill Priestap, corroboration of the Steele dossier was in its "infancy" at the time of the initial Page FISA application." Most of the dossier remains uncorroborated.
See, I think you are interpreting that the way Nunes wants to. Why does the memo not say something like "And the FBI has not been able to corroborate the Steele Dossier any further." All the memo states is the state of collaboration at one point in time. If Nunes (or his staff/white house that actually wrote the memo) knew that the most corroboration that happened they would have stated as such. Instead they just stated what was known at the time, not what is known now. Other places in the document they talk about what is known now and not at the time of the FISA application, like McCabe's testimony about the application, so it is not limiting itself to that.
Simply, either Nunes/surrogates do not know if dossier has been corroborated further or that it has and it was not stated in the memo because it would hurt the purpose of the memo. I would imagine that Nunes or someone else on the committee asked McCabe during the same session referenced in the memo if more of the dossier had been corroborated, since it is an obvious question. So I would bet large sums of money more of the dossier has been corroborated since the initial FISA application and quote in the memo.