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| To Spy on a Trump Aide, the FBI Pursued a Dossier Rumor the Press Shot Down as 'BS' |
| 2022-05-06 |
| [Real Clear Investigations] The FBI decision to spy on a former Trump campaign adviser hinged on an unsubstantiated rumor from a Clinton campaign-paid dossier that the Washington Post's Moscow sources had quickly shot down as "bullshit" and "impossible," according to emails disclosed last week to a D.C. court hearing the criminal case of a Clinton lawyer accused of lying to the FBI. Though the FBI presumably had access to better sources than the newspaper, agents did little to verify the rumor that Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page had secretly met with sanctioned Kremlin officials in Moscow. Instead, the bureau pounced on the dossier report the day it received it, immediately plugging the rumor into an application under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to wiretap Page as a suspected Russian agent. The allegation, peddled to both the press and FBI in the summer of 2016 by Fusion GPS, an opposition research firm hired by Hillary Clinton’s campaign to dig up dirt on Trump during the presidential race, proved to be the linchpin in winning approval for the 2016 warrant, which was renewed three times in 2017 — even though the FBI learned there were serious holes in the story and had failed to independently corroborate it. Related: Carter Page: 2022-01-29 Durham Court Filing Reveals DOJ Inspector General Horowitz Withheld Key Evidence From Special Counsel Carter Page: 2021-12-12 Federal watchdog: Customs and Border Protection anti-terror unit investigated journalists Carter Page: 2021-11-19 VDH - Can the FBI be salvaged? |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #3 Yes |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2022-05-06 12:43 |
| #2 It seems like a lot of people inside and outside the government "wanted" to believe the B.S. Maybe they all knew it was B.S. and pushed it anyway to try to get rid of Trump. They knew Trump was a danger to all their Deep State cozy relationships. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2022-05-06 09:29 |
| #1 It will likely soon be revealed that Carter Page was a vehicle, a recruited intelligence community source who knew exactly what he was doing and whom he was working for. No one was "spying" on Carter Page, he was not the target. Intelligences sources are monitored. Carter Page was the source of the reporting. His reporting was being monitored, until he was forced to leave the campaign team. A likely 'Red Herring' albeit a poor very one. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-05-06 07:00 |