Carter Page May Have Been Subject to FISA Warrants as Early as 2013

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by Colin Kalmbacher | 5:13 pm, July 30th, 2018

The Carter Page FISA warrant story keeps on chugging along.

Lost amidst most media reports on this issue, though, is that former Trump advisor Page may have been subject to such warrants as early as 2013. Centrist legal blog Just Security notes:

Carter Page came to the attention of the FBI long before he joined the Trump campaign, as the Wall Street Journal and other news outlets have reported. In 2013, Russian spies tried to recruit Page as an intelligence source, and Page passed documents to an agent of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service. In discussing the Oct. 2016 FISA warrant, the WSJ says, “It isn’t clear whether the department had previously requested a FISA warrant on Mr. Page.”

That last-quoted sentence above is from a February 1, 2018 article. But it doesn’t appear to be strictly true–at least not now.

A CNN article published on August 4, 2017 notes, “Page had been the subject of a secret intelligence surveillance warrant since 2014, earlier than had been previously reported, US officials briefed on the probe told CNN.” So, that’s an allegation from roughly six months prior, but the WSJ‘s reporting acumen isn’t strictly the point here–and maybe they just didn’t trust CNN’s anonymous sources. Fair enough. But immediately after said WSJ report ran, the floodgates on those prior warrants opened up.

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https://lawandcrime.com/analysis/carter-page-may-have-been-subject-to-fisa-warrants-as-early-as-2013/

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