The long awaited memo by Democrats on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence was publicly released over the weekend.

Before you use that link to read the memo, you might find it useful to read this column from the Lawfare Blog, “Takeaways From the House Intelligence Democrats’ Memo.” It’s useful in focusing on the broad themes that give the memo weight, as well as noting an essential contradiction in the GOP majority’s arguments.

You’ve got to read the column itself for the details. But here’s its overall answer to the central question: Should the Democrat’s memo be believed?

There’s one very good reason to believe that it is, broadly speaking, factually accurate. That’s that the Republican members of the House intelligence committee aren’t contesting its factual claims. In a document released by the majority Saturday, the Republicans cite a letter released by Sens. Chuck Grassley and Lindsey Graham to argue that the dossier, in fact, made up “the bulk of” the FISA application. That’s a genuine disagreement with the Demo, which says that the FBI “made only narrow use of information from Steele’s sources about Page’s specific activities in 2016”—and that dispute is impossible to resolve without seeing the FISA application itself.

But otherwise, the Republican talking points seem to be what Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee famously termed a “non-denial denial.” The Republicans argue that the FISA application does not mention Steele’s personal antipathy toward Trump, in addition to Simpson’s political motivations; that the FBI “buried” the information on the partisan cast of Steele’s work in a “convoluted” footnote; and that the Steele dossier was the only source for the FBI’s claim that Page had met with particular Russians while in Moscow.

But the Republican talking points largely don’t contest the factual statements made in the Demo. That is a damning omission about a document that itself alleges a set of damning omissions.