re: How Many Here Know That Intelligence Told Obama That Trump/Russia Was False, But.....

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list him as a foreign policy advisor to Trump.

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Did he have that role when the FISA warrant was approved? Simple yes or no answer will suffice.

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Did he have that role when the FISA warrant was approved? Simple yes or no answer will suffice.

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How far do you want to move the goal posts ?

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How far do you want to move the goal posts ?

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Huh? Those are your goalposts.

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Was Carter Page part of the Trump Team and was he spied on?

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Was Carter Page on the Trump team and was he spied on

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Carter Page was on the Trump transition team - he was spied on. Those are verifiable facts.

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The fact that I answered your question, in detail, multiple times indicts you may be experiencing some cognitive issues.

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Did he have that role when the FISA warrant was approved? Simple yes or no answer will suffice

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Let's see - first warrant issued in October 2016

Left Trump team in September 2016

So yes - he had a role

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I already told you, and your link confirms exactly what I wrote about the timeline of the FISA warrant.

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False

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Not sure what calendar you use but here in America October comes after September......exactly what I wrote.

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They were looking into him as early as 2013 with suspected Russian ties. So while you're trying to get by on a technicality. They were spying on him long before the FISA warrant was issued.

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January: Russian agents posing as bankers approach Page at an energy symposium in New York City and try to cultivate him as a source for economic information about the U.S. energy industry.

April: The FBI secretly records one of the Russians complaining to another agent about Page: “I think he is an idiot and forgot who I am.” He advises his comrade to try to massage Page for information and then “tell him to go frick himself."

June: FBI interviews Page again and he reveals he has spoken with the CIA “since his last interview with the FBI,” according to another FBI EC. Page agrees to cooperate as a key witness in the FBI’s undercover investigation of the Russian agents in New York.

2016


Evgeny Buryakov, left, at his 2016 sentencing in New York on espionage charges. Though Carter Page helped the FBI bust him, it later made Page out to be a suspected Russian agent.
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March: Page meets with FBI agents and federal prosecutors in New York to help them finalize their case against one of the Russian agents, Evgeny Buryakov, who agrees to plead guilty to conspiring to act as an unregistered Russian agent. He is sentenced to 30 months in prison.

March 21: Page joins the Trump campaign as a foreign policy adviser.

April 1: FBI headquarters advises the New York field office to investigate Page.

April: Hillary Clinton's campaign hires the Washington-based opposition research firm Fusion GPS to dig up dirt on Trump. In turn, Fusion hires retired British intelligence officer Christopher Steele to compile a dossier on Trump and Russia.

July: Page travels to Moscow to give an economic speech at a college where President Obama previously spoke. Steele drafts a memo falsely claiming Page met with Kremlin officials during his trip as part of a “well-developed conspiracy of cooperation” between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. Steele begins feeding his dossier to the FBI.

Aug. 10: FBI HQ opens an investigation of Page and prepares a request to eavesdrop on him under FISA.

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Aug. 17: The CIA sends a memo to FBI HQ advising the Crossfire Hurricane team that Page had been approved as an “operational contact” for the agency from 2008-2013, during which he provided information on Russia directly to Langley. The FBI team does not follow up with the CIA, even though the information is highly relevant to its FISA request.

Sept. 23: Steele leaks the FBI probe of Page based on his dossier to Yahoo News, which quotes a “senior U.S. law enforcement official” confirming that Page’s contacts with Russian officials is “being looked at.” (Yahoo reporter Michael Isikoff sends no emails to Page, and despite leaving phone messages on his voice mail, never gives him advance warning of the bombshell he’s dropping.)

Sept. 25: Enraged by the story, Page sends FBI Director James Comey a letter denying contacts with sanctioned Russian officials and requests an interview with agents to clear his name. He also reminds Comey of his decades-long record of cooperation with both “the FBI and CIA." Comey shares the letter with Strzok and others on the Crossfire team, but does not respond to Page.

Sept. 26: Strzok texts FBI lawyer Lisa Page: “At a minimum, the letter provides us a pretext to interview [Page]."


Stuart Evans, Justice Department attorney: He questioned but ultimately accepted FBI representations about Page.
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Sept. 28: Stuart Evans, a Justice Department attorney who signs off on FBI applications for FISA warrants, emails Page case agent Stephen Somma and asks, “do we know if there is any truth to Page’s claim that he has provided information to [the CIA] — was he considered a source/asset/whatever?"

Sept. 29: Somma replies to Evans that although Page “did meet with [the CIA],” he maintains that his past 2008-2013 history with the agency is “dated" and irrelevant to the FISA request. Based on his response, Evans agrees to leave Page’s prior relationship out of the FISA application. (Somma's portrayal, however, “was inaccurate,” according to Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz, who would note in a later report that the FISA application included allegations about 2007-2008 meetings Page had with Russian intelligence officers which "Page had disclosed to the agency” in 2010. So contrary to Somma’s assertion, Page's disclosures to the CIA were in fact relevant, especially since the CIA had assessed that Page “candidly” described these earlier contacts with Russian officers. The CIA emphasized Page’s truthfulness in its August memo to the FBI. The agency did not terminate him as a source due to any wrongdoing or suspicions about him.) Somma also got a high-level nudge from then-Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, who asserted to Evans that he “felt strongly” that he should let the warrant move forward.

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This was long before the official FISA warrant was issued.


It's also suspected he had FISA warrants on him as early as 2013 although

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Also on February 4, Jake Tapper said, "In 2013, 2014, Carter Page was spied on by the FBI in a different FISA warrant."

The next day, on February 5, CNN's Jessica Schneider said, "In 2014, the FBI began surveilling Page's communications under a FISA warrant."

Later that month, Representative Patrick Lynch (D-MA) told far-right outlet World Net Daily, "The first warrant on Carter Page went back to 2013. He had been surveilled back then as a possible Russian agent. FBI had the evidence. That may have had some influence on the court."

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that's never really been investigated

It’s been public knowledge for years.