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  1. …in reply to @amconmag
    @amconmag 1/ No, @amconmag, tell Merry the point is that his original piece, putting forward the risible thesis that it was bad journalism to flag which factual claims in the Nunes Memo were contested by Dems/law enforcement officials familiar with the underlying FISA materials,
    1. …in reply to @charlie_savage
      @amconmag 2/ justified that bad take by accusing me of speculating without evidence that various specific parts might be problematic. In fact, as was obvious to everyone but him at the time but as the belated unveiling of the 2nd memo underscores, I was accurately reporting out the dispute
      1. …in reply to @charlie_savage
        @amconmag 3/ so readers were informed when it mattered, not weeks later when the news cycle had already moved on to guns. To the extent that he is backing away from his initial description of what would "seriously discredit" the Nunes Memo and maintains that "questions remain,"
        1. …in reply to @charlie_savage
          @amconmag 4/ that’s why I'm petitioning the court to unseal the underlying materials, contra the particularly dumb attached point. In sum, he put forward a bad take on journalism while displaying confusion about the specific facts, which should, but probably won't, make him re-evaluate.
          oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API