TPM - Ex-Trump Campaign Adviser Carter Page's Accounts Of Russia Ties Keep Shifting

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/former-trump-adviser-carter-page-shifting-accounts-russia-ties

By ALLEGRA KIRKLAND Published APRIL 14, 2017, 6:00 AM EDT

Carter Page, a onetime foreign policy adviser to President Donald Trump’s campaign, is eager to clear his name.

After coming under scrutiny by the FBI and the press for his ties to Kremlin-linked officials, Page has conducted interview after interview in an attempt to downplay his interactions with the Russian government and business communities. But Page, who dodges his interviewers’ questions with a slight smile, repeatedly bumbles through his recountings of which Russians he met with and what they discussed. The conversations tend to open new lines of inquiry rather than close them.

The Trump team has long tried to distance itself from Page, casting him as a peripheral figure who never met with the President in person or assisted with crafting speeches or policy. Surely to White House officials’ irritation, the investment banker, who advised the campaign on Russia and energy policy, was back in the news this week. Reports revealed that the FBI last summer obtained a warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to surveil Page out of suspicion he was acting as a foreign agent on Russia’s behalf.

Page told TPM on Thursday that he was “jammed” and unable to conduct a phone interview, but that the FBI was “unjustified” in monitoring his communications.

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[Vinca]

1. He really is a daffy character. You'd think a person would be embarrassed when it's revealed the

Russians decided he was too dumb to be a spy. Instead, he's hitting all the media outlets. LOL.