Former Trump campaign adviser: Any info given to Russian spies 'immaterial'

[TomCADem]

Source: The Hill

Carter Page, a former adviser to Donald Trump's presidential campaign, said Tuesday any information he gave Russian spies in an encounter several years ago was "immaterial."

“Any information I could give is, again, immaterial and all public information,” he told ABC News during an interview Tuesday at a New York energy conference.

The comments come after a report Monday that Page met a Russian intelligence operative three years before the 2016 race and passed him documents.

He reportedly met with Victor Podobnyy, a Russian intelligence official whom the U.S. government later charged with acting as an unregistered agent for a foreign government.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/327344-former-trump-campaign-adviser-info-given-to-russian-spies-immaterial

[liberal N proud]

1. OH hell!

We have the right to know what was said, what was given to the Russians, what the Russians did for who.

[truthisfreedom]

2. So, he admits to giving a Russian spy information. First step.

Next stop, prison.

[Chasstev365]

3. Did he say it with a smirk, like he did on Chris Hayes' Show?

I still think he will be one of the ones who will sing to save his treasonous ass!

[Leghorn21]

5. Ha! (see below) Page is such a sad-sack wannabe, and none too bright, eh - I really enjoyed

his "performance"! I think he'll sing long and loud, too, poor schmuck

[Leghorn21]

4. Sure wish this guy would come back onto Chris Hayes' show again - one more session of Page's

double-triple talk would be great viewing...he cray, man.

[Maine-i-acs]

6. Met secretly with a Russian spy to hand over "public" documents?

I smell a rat. Nutria-sized.

[thesquanderer]

7. So he was only "pretending" to be a spy?

That's a pretty sketchy defense, leading to the questions why, and for whose benefit?

[Honeycombe8]

8. If the info was public, why would they need HIM to get it? Dufus. nt

[6000eliot]

9. How lucky for him that he gets to decide what it is.

[Botany]

10. If the information was unimportant why would the Russian spy want it?

n/t

[DeminPennswoods]

11. It's how they recruit

They start small with a friendly or business relationship. I'm sure they try to see if the target is willing to turn over info/documents. If so, they'll start asking to see more sensitive info and so on.

[GeorgeGist]

12. Drip ...

in so many ways.

[Mc Mike]

13. B.S. red herring.

He's never was holding any valuable intel that we know about. He's there to bring deal terms, a go between, a bag man, not an intel leaker. He's guilty of collusion with russian intel people, not passing russian intel people our classified secrets.

[LakeArenal]

14. Did they forget they told us no one had any contact with any Russians ..

Political, business or treason -wise..?