Trump Aide Carter Page May Have Been Russian Agent

[DonViejo]

TRUMP CAMPAIGN AIDE CARTER PAGE MAY HAVE BEEN RUSSIAN AGENT, JUSTICE DEPARTMENT BELIEVED ACCORDING TO NUNES MEMO

BY CRISTINA MAZA ON 1/29/18 AT 9:29 AM

President Donald Trump’s Justice Department had reason to suspect that former Trump campaign associate Carter Page was a Russian agent, according to a Republican memo.

The contentious and secret memo, allegedly created by Republicans to discredit the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, shows that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein approved an application to continue surveillance of Page, sources told The New York Times.

The memo alleges that the FBI and Justice Department did not adequately explain to a judge that they were relying partly on research by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele when they sought to renew a FISA warrant for surveillance of Page. Steele was the author of the highly controversial Russia dossier, which alleged that Russia had been cultivating Trump for years. Many of the allegations in the dossier remain unproven one year after its publication.

Some sources said the Republican memo, spearheaded by House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes, could be used to attack Rosenstein for allegedly renewing the warrant to spy on Page without having properly vetted the information in the application. The memo allegedly claims that the FBI abused FISA surveillance law by using the dossier.

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[MineralMan]

1. Well, now, that's embarrassing, isn't it?

This is all collapsing into a comedy of errors on the part of the Republicans. What on Earth will the punch line be for this long joke?

[appal_jack]

6. "It was the Aristocrats!" nt

[annabanana]

32. HA!. . . .n/t

[lagomorph777]

7. Looks like the memo will need to be forgotten.

Oops!

[MineralMan]

8. Comedy of errors. However, the laughter is bitter, I'm afraid.

We're seeing who runs this circus, and it's not reassuring.

[trotsky]

18. "RELEASE THE MEMO!"

"OK NOW HIDE IT AGAIN! NO, BURN IT!!"

[Fred Sanders]

21. Funny how the fire breathers in RW bubble land have suddenly clammed up.

[sunonmars]

2. and the Trump campaign knew about.......what a surprise.

No maybe about it, Carter Page is a russian agent. This is devastating, it basically means Russian agents were working on the Trump campaign.

UNBELIEVABLE.

[Wounded Bear]

15. And are now working in the White House...

[MFM008]

27. Busy

They are "busy"...like maggot says he is so " busy"....

[Motley13]

3. He is more like a stooge, he is an imbecile

[Wounded Bear]

17. Like Malcom Nance put it: a useful idiot...

Page comes across as a clown.

[dalton99a]

4. Who can ignore Page's blatant whoring for Putin and Russian causes

[Fred Sanders]

22. Good catch. Better research on DU than MSM combined.

[YessirAtsaFact]

5. Same old bullshit about the Steele dossier being used to get FISA warrants

The dossier corroborated information that the FBI had already received from other sources.

If Nunes keeps on, there are a lot of foreign intelligence services who may back up Mueller because the situation here is so dangerous to the Western alliance that the repugnant goons can’t be allowed to get away with the continued subversion of our government.

Our NATO allies may release information they would not normally releas, because Trump is so compromised

[Fred Sanders]

23. FISA court eventually approved the warrants...happens all the time. Warrants resubmitted.

Republicans loved the FISA process...until their lack of self awareness of their hypocrisy made them forget.

[BobTheSubgenius]

35. Exactly! The same thinking could be applied to this, the so-called nuclear option, and

all kinds of situations and tactics, the potential blowback from which ought to make you VERY leery of using, when it may well be used against you later.

Their lack of self-awareness is also a lack of awareness in general, an ability to use reason and logic, and possibly even a basic understanding of object permanence. That last one especially seems to apply to things that are not really "objects" in that sense, but are things they say or do when they really shouldn't. At least in terms of self-interest.

From that standpoint, they need to be made aware that there are devices that can record their words and actions.

News cameras come to mind.

[dewsgirl]

9. I personally find Carter Page sort entertaining. If he is an actual Russian agent, how? Why in the

World would anyone trust this buffoon? This idiot has been on Chris Hayes 2 or 3 times with no attorney, just babbling away.

[wishstar]

25. He may be smarter and more devious that he appears- I suspect the clownishness is an act

Not to give him much credit, as he seems nutty as a fruitcake with his Hillary derangement syndrome, but he knows Putin hates Hillary and Page was trying to get involved in big oil deals that required lifting of sanctions. Russians were undoubtedly interested in him to see if he could help with lifting sanctions, given his impressive resume-
He is a graduate of US Naval Academy at Annapolis and was in Navy before going to Georgetown and NYU and then getting a PhD from School of London before working for Merrill Lynch and then trying to ingratiate himself with Russian oil people.

[ananda]

10. It's been clear that he was for at least a year.

Clear.

[sarah FAILIN]

11. What a shock!!

I thought he was just a simple minded kid, lol.

[RandomAccess]

34. He may be an unwitting asset -- thanks to that simplemindedness

[Corgigal]

12. Does Nunes have any idea how a criminal investigation works?

All agencies, everywhere. You received a tip, you check how who gave you the tip, then you check to see if the tip is probable, then you ask the Judge why you believe you need a warrant to further the investigation.

Man, is congress stupid. Watch some crime shows, seriously. Nothing wrong here.
Well, besides getting caught up in the treason.

[SunSeeker]

33. The GOP knows damn well how a criminal investigation works, they are just being dishonest.

They are blatantly committing obstruction of justice.

[gibraltar72]

13. If I remember correctly

US recorded two spies recruiting him. They had actually planted mics. in their notebooks. I wonder why in the world a FISA warrant would be issued on him.

[Corgigal]

16. American citizen.

To use the information in court. That is the procedure.

[Corgigal]

14. While I'm at it

Yo Newsweek, the Christopher Steele dossier is NOT controversial. That is failed journalism, it might not be liked by one political party but that doesn't controversial. That what our govt was trying to force, work the tip through the process.

[gibraltar72]

19. My point was

they had the recruitment process on tape. Of course next step was keep track of the traitor. That was tongue in cheek. Damn in this day and age the other sides arguments are so crazy satire is lost. Can't we save satire is it to go extinct.

[Corgigal]

20. Still doesn't make my point moot.

Like you mentioned, the investigation was ongoing, they just needed to bump it up to the use in court setting. It's all good. It's just different acts in a play.

[NewJeffCT]

24. Carter Page was only an assistant to the coffee boy

he bought the k-cup refills and paper coffee cups and would give them to Coffee Boy George Papadapolous.

[gibraltar72]

26. George served

the coffee black. He saved the cream for Mueller.

[SHRED]

28. No shit?

[Faux pas]

29. What???

page is a blithering lying idiot! Is that a requirement to be a Russian spy? The world, as I thought I knew it, is doomed.

[UCmeNdc]

30. It is no doubt about. Carter Page was a Russian agent.

[Gothmog]

31. Carter Page is an idiot and was easily recruited

This kills the premise of the Nunes bogus memo