Fox and Vox.

For Democrats the Nunes memo is a dud, while for the Republicans it proves that the FBI fabricated charges of collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign. The Nunes memo was written by the Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, David Nunes. According to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, the FBI has to obtain permission from a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, or FISC, to mount electronic surveillance on anyone suspected to be a foreign agent. In this case a FISC order was used by the FBI to spy on Carter Page, a US citizen. Page was an adviser to the Trump campaign and had been, on his own admission, an adviser to the Russian government. The application by the FBI to the FISC was based on a dossier compiled by ex-MI6 agent Christopher Steele who was paid $160,000 by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee for the dossier. "Steele was suspended and then terminated as an FBI source for what the FBI defines as the most serious of violations -- and unauthorised disclosure of his relationship with the FBI..." "Steele said 'he was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him, not being president'. Steele is British so why is it his business who the Americans elect as their president? And why was the FBI assisting a foreign agent to interfere in US elections? In their applications, more than 6 times, to the FISC the FBI did not disclose that their suspicions were based on a thoroughly discredited source, paid for by the Democrats. Why is it alright for the FBI to repeatedly lie to a court but a crime for Michael Flynn to lie to the FBI? According to the left wing Vox, "The Nunes memo is a dud." There is no proof in the memo that the FBI is biased against Trump, no proof of abuse of surveillance power by the FBI, and no proof that the investigation into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia is fundamentally flawed." For the right wing Fox, former Director of the FBI, James Comey disgraced the honorable agency. Fox News is adamant that, "Trump is right -- He and his campaign were victims of a political attack by the Justice department and FBI." Steve Hilton, an American who helped David Cameron's election campaign in Britain, wrote that, according to Tony Blair, 'deep state' is a rigid bureaucracy that will resist any change. Left wing Politico wrote that the 'deep state' in Washington comprises various institutions which influence the president by feeding him selective information or by leaking classified secrets. Trump is a real outsider and is a threat to the old nexus of politicians who attacked Iraq and Libya, business people who cheated on taxes by manufacturing in China and the armed forces which thrives on a myth of imminent Russian attack. The US establishment should not allow Britain to dictate policy, based on some imagined "special relationship". Fourth of July should not be for marches and bar-b-ques only.