The Russia Investigations: 5 Takeaways About The Inescapable Nunes Memo

This week in the Russia investigations: The much-talked-about memo finally made its public debut.

After a week of hyperpartisan madness that critics warn could shatter key D.C. institutions forever, the inescapable, once-secret spying memo wound up falling like a drop of rain into the Pacific Ocean.

There was no Friday Night Massacre in which the leaders of the FBI and Justice Department were pushed out the window or jumped on their own. The memo didn't even break much news — comments by members of Congress and reports in the press ended up setting the stage for it nicely.

But, that doesn't mean it didn't have some points of interest, including these five takeaways.

1. The Steele dossier did not launch the DOJ Russia investigation. George Papadopoulos did.

NPR and other news organizations have not detailed the infamous, unverified dossier compiled by former