Posted on 04/18/2017 6:47:22 PM PDT by Mariner
The FBI used information from the explosive, unverified dossier detailing President Donald Trump's alleged ties to Russia to obtain a warrant to secretly monitor former Trump adviser Carter Page.
That same dossier — a collection of memos compiled by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele — has been used in other elements of the US investigation into whether there was any inappropriate contact between Trump campaign associates and Russia.
CNN first reported the FBI's use of the dossier to secure the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant on Page, the former Trump foreign-policy adviser who has appeared to be at the center of the Trump-Russia investigations — due in part to his previous work in Russia and his communications with Russian officials.
President Donald Trump has previously called the dossier "phony stuff" and "fake news."
Page has resurfaced in headlines at several points since the 2016 election — most recently last week, when he declared that he could not "definitively" say that he never discussed US sanctions with any Russian official. The dossier alleges Page met senior Russian officials during a trip to Moscow last July, when he gave a speech critical of US policy toward Russia. It also alleges Page discussed sanctions and business opportunities with the Russian officials. Page has denied the information contained in the dossier.
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I think it was a Rino pac that paid for the smut repoprt on Trump. They gave it to McBackstabber who turned it over to the FBI.
The FBI wanted to be conned.
Our intelligence agencies are like the KGB and the agencies are like Soviet communist party organizations. The mass murder of refusniks...it may be coming right up. They have built the camps.
The base of the rat party wouldn’t lose a moment of sleep sending you, me, and every other Freeper to a labor camp.
Nothing is going to happen to anyone. If anyone here believes indictments are coming for any of these players he is being delusional. DC does not work that way.
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