“It’s Page. The question is what are the implications?”
That the whole thing was simply a deliberate attempt by the Obama Administration to illegally use intelligence capabilities to spy on their domestic political opponents, and steal an election.
Carter Page was a long term FBI asset. He was probably sent to the Trump Campaign, so they could use his prior years in Russia, and contacts with known Russian Intelligence Officers to meet the threshold to get FISA surveillance warrants on Page - and therefor, two hops out (anyone who communicated, with anyone who communicated with Page). They probably had Page send some innocuous email to anyone in the campaign that they really wanted to monitor, just so they could monitor all of their future communications.
Page was an FBI asset, fraudulently presented as a subject of interest, to illegally capture and disseminate all the communications of the Trump campaign, to Democrat operatives throughout the Obama Administration.
An illegal day by day, blow by blow spying operation on a domestic political campaign was conducted by the Obama Administration, at the highest levels. Some reports indicate that significant Trump campaign information that was collected through this fraud (and other illegal abuses), was even brazenly included in the Presidential Daily Brief, and automatically distributed to dozens of Administration figures - including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
This is so much worse than Watergate, where a few Republicans affiliated with the campaign, tried to to peek into the files of the DNC one night. This was the systematic wholesale corruption of the intelligence capabilities of the Nation to comprehensively monitor every communication of an opposition political campaign.
If not adequately punished, there may not be another opportunity to prevent such abuse in the future - elections could be effectively rigged in perpetuity by such a lawless clique, the next time they wield such power.
Your reasoning is sound and logical. People try to make things more complicated than necessary IMO!
If it was Page, then this is consistent with the old saw that in any group of 10 KKK members, or 10 “militia” members, at least 8 were FBI agents provocateur. The FBI is single-handedly more responsible for creating high-profile crimes through entrapment than the targets of the charges themselves.
The entire leadership of the FBI and DOJ when this plot was hatched and carried out need to go to prison for life, or hang by the neck at the end of a rope. This kind of abuse of power must be made so costly that (like treason in the Civil War) it isn’t repeated for well over a century.
Phuck these people, each and every one - they take the power and trust that We The People give them, and turn it around for use against US.
Very good summation.