https://t.me/drawandstrikechannel/19982
This consensual recording of Page was quite remarkable—or should have been, for the Crossfire Hurricane “team.” Consider the topics that Page discussed—quite candidly, it appears:
1. Page’s “recent” trip to Moscow. Well, that trip took place back in June, but OK. Here we have Page speaking—on “tape”—about the trip to Moscow that the Steele “dossier” makes so much of, and that the FBI relied heavily upon to apply for their FISA on Page. Remember? Steele claimed that Page met “secretly” with Russian officials close to Putin. In other words, by the the time the FBI began the application process they possessed not just Steele’s unverified “narrative”—they also had a recording of Page discussing that same trip with an FBI asset whom Page apparently trusted!
2. Page also discussed “a pending ‘October Surprise.’” What was that October Surprise? Page believed that by October the “conspiracy theory” (Page’s words) about the Hillary emails would be exposed as nonsense. Remember? That was the “Russian hacking” narrative, the one that the FBI somehow declined to investigate in any meaningful sense—like, obtaining the actual server. And yet that would definitely have been “Russian meddling” in an election. Page’s comment cast doubt on Downer’s story about his meeting with Papadopoulos, and therefore strikes at the heart of the supposed “predication” for the entire Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
3. Page also recounted that “he had ‘literally never met’ Paul Manafort, had ‘never said one word to him,’ and that Manafort had not responded to any of Carter Page’s emails. And yet Steele claimed in his “dossier” that Manafort was the evil genius coordinating Trump campaign collusion with Putin—using Carter Page as his ‘legman.’
As you can see from this, when it came time to submit that crucial first FISA application the FBI faced a decision. They could provide DoJ and the FISA court with all relevant information regarding Carter Page or they could slant the application by only providing the Steele “dossier” narrative.
Let’s have a show of hands. Who is surprised to learn that this remarkably relevant recording of Page—which strikes at the heart of the predication for Crossfire Hurricane as well as at Christopher Steele’s credibility—was NOT presented to either DoJ or the FISC? Because it wasn’t. Does that sound like the action of investigators who were disinterestedly seeking to “prove or disprove” the predication? And yet Pientka and Somma had the nerve to claim to OIG that this was a highly successful recording of Page because they also learned “where Page lived and what he was currently working on.” Words fail me.
https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/russia-hoax-origins-carter-page-flashback-f90