justice department for in its application for this wiretap order, which was granted, using information from christopher steele, that was opposition research financed by democrats, without adequately explaining to the judge that chris steele was being financed by the campaigned an the dnc. one of the things that supposedly is so misleading about this is that there was all kinds of evidence from all kinds of sources woven together in this application of which this was a single thread. but supposedly the memo focuses on it as if that was it. they just used this one thing and but for that there wouldn't have been a wiretap order. the catch-22 is that the fbi cannot and the justice department cannot talk about all that other stuff to defend itself, to show this was just one thing among many, not the pivotal thing. because to talk about the other stuff would blow all these other intelligence sources the government has for keeping track