February 1, 2018

Carter Page will be a household name if they release the 'Meme'

https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/959127357809414144

I find it hard to believe a lot of people are going to be shocked that the FBI was following and bugging Carter Page, but despite what the WH wants to happen, Page and Russia will be the residual focus from the release of the republican propaganda memo.

Page has openly admitted contacts with Russians during the campaign, and he was an acting Russian foreign agent during the campaign.

There was a FISA warrant approved on Page for months before Rosenstein sought to get it renewed. The FBI was watching him before they even got the Steele Dossier...

Brian Krassenstein🐬 @krassenstein Jan 29
1 - Carter Page has a FISA warrant
2 - Carter Page's FISA warrant expired
3 - The FBI reapplies for Page's FISA warrant
4 - Rosenstein approves the FISA application, sends it to FISA court
5 - A FISA Judge approves a new FISA warrant
6 - Nunes blames the whole thing on Rosenstein


Philip Bump @pbump 9h9 hours ago
Two key things to remember about the FISA warrant for Carter Page:

1. He was on the FBI’s counterintel radar nearly three years before he joined the Trump campaign.

2. The warrant was issued after he resigned from the campaign.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/01/31/what-we-know-about-the-warrant-to-surveil-carter-page/ …

Natasha Bertrand @NatashaBertrand Jan 29
"The renewal shows that the Justice Department under President Trump saw reason to believe that the associate, Carter Page, was acting as a Russian agent."


Amy Siskind @Amy_Siskind 5h5 hours ago
When Trump was just a real estate bigot, not even in politics:
“Court documents, testimony show foreign-policy adviser was known to authorities as early as 2013.” https://www.wsj.com/articles/forme


Rebecca Ballhaus @rebeccaballhaus 8h8 hours ago
Around the same time that the FBI and DOJ were applying for a surveillance warrant in fall 2016 against former Trump campaign aide Carter Page, Page's name was surfacing repeatedly in classified briefings given to high-level members of Congress. https://www.wsj.com/articles/former-trump-aide-carter-page-was-on-u-s-counterintelligence-radar-before-russia-dossier-1517486401 …


Norm Eisen @NormEisen 8h8 hours ago
If gist of the Nunes memo is that the FISA application to surveil Carter Page was unfounded, GOP picked wrong hill to fight on. Seldom has there been as much basis for a FISA warrant as to someone. place 2complain is FISA court, or DOJ IG, but GOP won't--because they will lose