Posted on 07/24/2018 11:21:52 AM PDT by detective
Back in the early sixties, Sam Cooke sang about dull Saturday nights. "Another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody." This past Saturday night, Special Counsel Robert Mueller was singing the same song, having found nobody guilty of Trump-Russia collusion despite over a year and millions of dollars spent investigating.
Instead, on this past Saturday night, what we did get was a heavily redacted FISA Court application that allowed spying on Carter Page. The application asserts at the beginning that Carter Page is "[a]n agent of a foreign power," specifically the Russian Federation, and that Page "[k]nowingly engaged in clandestine intelligence activities for or on behalf of [Russia]."
Was Page really a real-life version of cartoon character Boris Badenov? Or was he appropriated as a tool of the Deep State, the Resistance, used to put a flimsy skirt of legality on a blatant attempt to spy on the Trump campaign?
Without dissecting the hundreds of pages, much of it redacted, in the FISA application, let me pose two potential answers to my question.
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The FISA application falsely asserts that Carter Page is "an agent of a foreign power," specifically the Russian Federation, and that Page "knowingly engaged in clandestine intelligence activities for or on behalf of Russia."
The requirements for the FISA warrant that the Obama DOJ filed states that "If the agent of a foreign power is a U.S. person, the government must show that the U.S. person is engaging in espionage, terrorism, or sabotage by or on behalf of a foreign power that involves a violation of a criminal statute."
Carter Page was an undercover asset for the FBI who had caught and testified against a Russian agent.
Page electronically bugged a Russian operative using a binder full of fake reports about his industry
In March of 2016, the Russian operative pled guilty to "conspiring to act in the United States as an agent of the Russian Federation, without providing prior notice to the Attorney General."
Just seven months later (October 2016) the FBI told the FISA court that Carter Page was a Russian agent. After he just helped them take down a Russian agent.
The Obama DOJ used this assertion to obtain a FISA warrant to surveille Carter Page and through the FISA warrant they illegally spied on the entire Trump campaign and the Trump presidency.
Quite possibly CIA.
Carter Page has not been indicted, for two reasons.
1. He didn’t commit a crime.
2. If Carter was to be indicted (Mueller so lacking in ethics, he would indict a man he knew to be innocent), the government would have to provide all four unredacted FISA warrant applications to Carter Page and his attorney. They desperately want to avoid that.
Because if he does Mueller and the rest of the Democrats will try to convince the public that President Trump is interfering with the investigation.
The question is whether he knew he was being manipulated or whether he was just that stupid and gullible.
He also is a distinguished scholar graduate of the US Naval Academy who served 4 years as a Naval officer
Was Page a Russian agent? No, he was an FBI asset, and Mueller/Comey/Rosenstein/et al darned well know it.
Now, here's what interests me. They keep saying on TV that they need to declassify the FISA warrants so the public can see how the judges were misled.
But the judges already know they were misled. And they have said nothing. Which means the judges were not misled; the judges were and are complicit.
The FISA courts were in on the game.
The Russians think he’s an idiot and therefore unfit to be an agent.
Bump
I always thought that was Harry Belafonte. Or maybe Louis Farrakhan. You know - calypso beat.
Carter Page was a goofy marginal that the Russians thought they could get information out of.
The kind of guy who boasts in bars about how important he is and then leaves his briefcase behind by accident.
I believe that Page was an FBI agent, planted into the Trump Admin. Once inside he was then accused to be a Russian agent, so that all who came into contact with him (and those around them) could be spied upon.
“President Trump could order the removal of all redactions and release all documents with a phone call or a stroke of his pen. The question is why he hasn’t.
Because if he does Mueller and the rest of the Democrats will try to convince the public that President Trump is interfering with the investigation.”
It, like lots of things in this fiasco, it a booby trap.
Or EU.
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