IIRC, the court was led to believe that Carter Page was a soviet agent. This means that anyone he came in contact with could be spied on-even if he just exchanged a few words in the lobby of some building.
In actuality, it looked to me like Carter Page was an FBI asset used to set up stings for trapping Russian spies. So they used his work for FBI to make it look like he was an agent to get the warrant to spy on everyone in Trump Camp that they wanted to.
I always think of Carter Page as a Russian Rabbit - gleefully hopping around and tagging everything and everyone encountered - tag your it - Another Russian Agent.
EXCLUSIVE – After he escaped from Al Qaeda in Syria, American photojournalist Matt Schrier investigated his own kidnapping and uncovered what he describes as a pattern of “betrayal” by FBI agents handling his case.
While he was tortured and held by al Nusra, the brutal Al Qaeda franchise in Syria, Schrier claimed the FBI put intelligence gathering ahead of his personal security, hoping to track the computers and tablets to learn more about Al Qaeda recruits and future plots. After his harrowing escape, Schrier started demanding answers from the FBI, which at the time of his kidnapping was led by Mueller.
NIKK-I very much believe your correct especially this sad story.