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Dulcinea

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Mon Jul 23, 2018, 07:30 AM Jul 2018

What You Need To Know About The Much-Discussed Carter Page FISA Document

A hot new document offers a sliver of new understanding to the Russia imbroglio — but has not dislodged warring partisans from their long-term deadlock about evidence and surveillance in the case.

What is it?
The FBI has released an application to conduct surveillance of an American under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. It's heavily redacted but still significant — these are some of the most secret papers in official Washington and very seldom ever seen by people without specialized security clearances.

The dispute over the document boils down to this: did the Justice Department and the FBI violate the rights of a onetime junior foreign policy aide to the Donald Trump campaign, Carter Page?

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/23/631343524/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-much-discussed-carter-page-fisa-document

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What You Need To Know About The Much-Discussed Carter Page FISA Document (Original Post) Dulcinea Jul 2018 OP
More Trump "logic". Carter Page was "coffee boy" for campaign, but is target of Obama "spying". Midnight Writer Jul 2018 #1

Midnight Writer

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1. More Trump "logic". Carter Page was "coffee boy" for campaign, but is target of Obama "spying".
Mon Jul 23, 2018, 04:39 PM
Jul 2018

Surely if Obama and/or Deep State machinery wanted to criminally spy on Trump campaign, they would have spied on someone high up, not someone Trump describes as peripheral hanger on.

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