{"id":346637,"date":"2018-02-03T14:00:19","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/biggest-nunes-memo-revelations-have-little-to-do-with-its-content-consortiumnews\/"},"modified":"2018-02-03T14:00:19","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T13:00:19","slug":"biggest-nunes-memo-revelations-have-little-to-do-with-its-content-consortiumnews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/biggest-nunes-memo-revelations-have-little-to-do-with-its-content-consortiumnews\/","title":{"rendered":"Biggest Nunes Memo Revelations Have Little To Do With Its Content \u2013 Consortiumnews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The most important revelations of the Nunes Memo relate not to its content, but the political establishment\u2019s response to its release, argues Caitlin Johnstone.<\/p>\n<p>By Caitlin Johnstone<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s fitting that the ever-tightening repetitive loops of America\u2019s increasingly schizophrenic partisan warfare finally hit peak shrillness and skyrocketed into a white noise singularity on Groundhog Day. Right now, we\u2019re right about at the part of the movie where Bill Murray is driving over a cliff in a pickup truck with a large rodent behind the wheel.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25714\" style=\"max-width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/nunes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/nunes-300x168.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25714\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\"  \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25714\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/nunes-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\"  \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., speaks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol on March 22, 2017, in Washington, DC.<br \/>Photo: Win McNamee\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>If you only just started paying attention to U.S. politics in 2017 what I\u2019m about to tell you will blow your mind, so you might want to sit down for this: believe it or not, there was once a time when both of America\u2019s mainstream political parties weren\u2019t screeching every single day that there was news about to break any minute now which would obliterate the other party forever. No Russiagate, no Nunes memo, no Rachel Maddow red yarn graphs, no Sean Hannity \u201ctick tock,\u201d no nothing. People screaming that the end is nigh and it\u2019s all about to come crashing down were relegated to street corners and the occasional\u00a0Infowars\u00a0appearance, not practicing mainstream political punditry for multimillion dollar salaries on MSNBC and Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not saying it\u2019s a bad thing that Americans are starting to look critically at the power dynamics in their country, but the partisan filters they\u2019ve pulled over their eyes are causing mass confusion and delusion. Now everyone who questions the CIA is a Russian agent and the term \u201cdeep state\u201d suddenly means \u201cliterally anyone who doesn\u2019t like Donald Trump.\u201d Your take on the contents of the Nunes memo will put you in one of two radically different political dimensions depending on which mainstream cult you\u2019ve subscribed to, and it will cause you to completely miss the point of the entire ordeal.<\/p>\n<p>The part of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1CXFnepvQamNJyuhSsVQazBO7p3-ZxVOL\/view\">the memo<\/a>\u00a0that has everyone talking today reads as follows: \u201cFurthermore, Deputy&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2018\/02\/03\/biggest-nunes-memo-revelations-have-little-to-do-with-its-content\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most important revelations of the Nunes Memo relate not to its content, but the political establishment\u2019s response to its release, argues Caitlin Johnstone. By Caitlin Johnstone It\u2019s fitting that the ever-tightening repetitive loops of America\u2019s increasingly schizophrenic partisan warfare finally hit peak shrillness and skyrocketed into a white noise singularity on Groundhog Day. Right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-346637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}