Still on the fence about the Nunes memo? The left has the answer – it’s the Schiff memo

FILE- In this March 20, 2017, file photo, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., center, flanked by the committee's ranking member Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., left, and Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., listens on Capitol Hill in Washington during the committee's hearing on allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Two weeks after President Donald Trump blocked its full release, the House Intelligence Committee published on Saturday, Feb. 24, 2018, a partially blacked-out version of a classified Democratic memo aiming to counter a GOP narrative that the FBI and Justice Department conspired against Trump as they investigated his ties to Russia. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

By Debbie Lord for The Atlanta Journal Constitution

Feb 27, 2018

The Democratic memo showed the Republican memo to be exactly what it is – red meat to the right. A roundup of editorials Tuesday takes a look at the issue.

Opinions from the left:

1. Democratic memo shows no abuse of power with wiretap

From USA Today: The memo shows that the FBI had good reason to wiretap Carter Page.

A bombshell footnote left unredacted in the just-released memo "correcting the record" on the Russia investigation shows why, as early as 2013, the FBI thought Carter Page might be a Russian spy https://t.co/yqbVaHMOF7
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) February 27, 2018

2. Democratic rebuttal to the Nunes memo tears it apart

From Vox: The Democratic memo shows that the FBI did not use the Steele dossier as a reason to go after Page, but as supporting evidence for its action.

Not surprised the White House tried to bury our memo, or that the President would feel the need to go on Fox to explain why two of his foreign policy advisors were having secret discussions with the Russians. Hard to claim “vindication” with these facts. pic.twitter.com/Jnlf9ynXE7
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) February 25, 2018