Mediaite founder and ABC News chief legal analyst Dan Abrams talked about the much-hyped Nunes memo on This Week this morning.

Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General Matt Olsen said the memo was “amateurish” and only raises more questions, telling George Stephanopoulos the idea that “there was a conspiracy… to provide misleading information to the FISA court is a zero.”

Abrams offered this pretty blunt assessment of the memo:

“This memo reads like a defense attorney’s brief to try to exclude evidence, because in just about every high-profile case I cover, the defense argues that the investigators and the prosecutors had tunnel vision, they were out to get the defendant from the beginning, they never looked at any other possible defendants, they included all sorts of unverified information and warrant applications. This is a relatively weak legal argument, really, coming from the Nunes memo, because in the end, what they’re talking about is motivations. They’re not talking about facts they got wrong or laws that were broken.”

He concluded, “This just sounds like they’re saying, ‘They wanted to get him.’ And that’s what defense attorneys argue every day in this country.”

Watch above, via ABC.

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