Doubt cast upon Nunes memo's bombshell claim about Andrew McCabe's testimony on Trump dossier

Democrats are pushing back on the House Intelligence Committee memo’s assertion that Andrew McCabe, deputy director of the FBI, informed the panel that the agency would not have pursued placing a Trump campaign adviser under surveillance without the unverified “Trump dossier” written by former British spy Christopher Steele.

“Deputy Director McCabe testified before the Committee in December 2017 that no surveillance warrant would have been sought from the FISC without the Steele dossier information,” a controversial memo composed by Rep. Devin Nunes’ staff claims in regard to the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The memo was released Friday.