

Rep. Devin Nunes says he's happy the Democrats' FISA memo — intended as a rebuttal to his own memo that was unclassified earlier this month — was finally released Saturday.

The contents, he says, do more damage to Democrats and do not undercut anything in his own memo.

Specifically he says the memo makes an argument in favor of politicizing the FISA court.

"What you are not going to see," in the Democrats' memo, Nunes said Saturday, "is anything that actually rejects what was in our memo."

"And what was the point of our memo? The point of our memo was for one purpose only and that was to show that FISA abuse had occurred," he continued. "And have a secret court that gets abused like this is totally unacceptable and it falls on the job of the legislative branch you created all of this to provide oversight and make sure that when we see problems we let the American people know and all of our congressional colleagues know."

The California congressman spoke about the release of the memo during an appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference Saturday. He said Democrats are "advocating" for the DoJ and FBI to use political dirt to undermine rival political campaigns.

"So, what you will read in the Democratic memo is they are advocating that it is okay for the FBI and the DoJ to use political dirt paid for by one campaign, and use it against the other campaign," Nunes said. "And I don’t care who you are, Republican, or Democrat, or independent, that is unacceptable."

Nunes also warned that the FISA court itself is in jeopardy of being shut down.



"Let me give you an example of a coverup: One of the things in the Democratic memo that they’re all hot to talk about is that in a footnote before the FISA court they put in a very convoluted complicated answer for something that was... about this [being] politically motivated," Nunes said. "Wouldn’t have been a lot easier to just say, ‘Hey, Mr. Judge. We want to let you know the Hillary Clinton campaign the Democratic Party paid a lawyer who hired a firm who hired a foreign agent to go to the Russians and get dirt on Mr. Trump’?"

If the FBI and DoJ continue to operate this way, Nunes warned, "We are not going to have a FISA court in this country any longer."