So what do you suppose was in the other 400 pages of the warrant application besides additional material to establish probable cause? Every person who's read the memo speaks to it's length and additional evidence. Let me say that again, because you drumphers keep denying it: EVERY SINGLE MEMBER OF THE HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE THAT HAS READ THE WARRANT APPLICATION MENTIONS THAT IT CONTAINS A SHITON OF MORE EVIDENCE THAN THE STEELE DOSSIER.
Repeat that line in your head, and punch yourself in the dick every time you are about to make something similar to the above post.
And that additional info isn't corroborating the dossier. The additional info establishes probable cause (unless you think the judge that granted the warrant, or was incompetent).
Christ. I've worked as a prosecutor. I've drafted warrant requests before. You present to the judge whatever you have to make your case. If one piece of evidence is found to be lacking, the judge correctly ignores it. He doesn't toss the whole application in the bin. He just ignores the one thing he finds lacking and moves on and evaluates the rest on its own merits. So it doesn't matter if the devil himself commissioned bin laden to draft the worlds most biased memo and included it in the application. If the rest of the concluded material gave rise to probable cause, then the warrant should have been issued. Now so far, everyone who's read the memo says there was more to it. Nunes, who admitted that he never read the application, vaguely writes about the dossier. Somehow, you're compelled by the later. Surely it can't be for partisan reasons.