Carter Page from the Economist 7-28-2018
"He was one of the stranger figures in a campaign that featured many oddities. In television appearances he has appeared garrulous, twitchy and prone to self-contradiction. A naval officer turned investment banker turned academic turned energy consultant turned foreign-policy adviser, he first piqued the FBIs interest in 2013, when an American-based Russian intelligence officer tried to recruit him."This admin is in trouble with this guy and they know it.
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2018/07/26/the-questions-over-carter-pages-links-with-russia
Uncle Joe
(58,272 posts)Thanks for the thread Old Crank.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Hmmm...
Seems like a lotta stuff happened in 2013.
cyclonefence
(4,483 posts)Carter Page studied for his PhD at the University of London.
Page first submitted his thesis on central Asias transition from communism to capitalism in 2008. Two respected academics, Professor Gregory Andrusz, and Dr Peter Duncan, were asked to read his thesis and to examine him in a face-to-face interview known as a viva.
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Andrusz said he had expected it would be easy to pass Page, a student at the School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas). He said it actually took days and days to wade through Pages work. Page knew next to nothing about social science and seemed unfamiliar with basic concepts like Marxism or state capitalism, the professor said.
The viva, held at University College, London, went badly. Page seemed to think that if he talked enough, people would think he was well-informed. In fact it was the reverse, Andrusz said. He added that Page was dumbfounded when the examiners told him he had failed.
Their subsequent report was withering. It said Pages thesis was characterised by considerable repetition, verbosity and vagueness of expression, failed to meet the criteria required for a PhD, and needed substantial revision. He was given 18 months to produce another draft.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/22/trump-carter-page-phd-thesis-trump
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Page complained and carried on after his second attempt was rejected. He complained in one note: Your actions to date have been far more destructive than anything I have personally experienced in my 39 years on this planet. The fate of Khodorkovsky, he adds, represents the closest analogy in recent history to my trials. Khodorkovsky was an oligarch sent to Siberia.
Eventually, in 2011, Page's thesis was accepted and he passed his orals, but the circumstances of his award are not known because of privacy rules.