***** BREAKING ***** FBI obtained FISA warrant to monitor former Trump adviser Carter Page

[DemocratSinceBirth]

The FBI obtained a secret court order last summer to monitor the communications of an adviser to presidential candidate Donald Trump, part of an investigation into possible links between Russia and the campaign, law enforcement and other U.S. officials said.

The FBI and the Justice Department obtained the warrant targeting Carter Page’s communications after convincing a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judge that there was probable cause to believe Page was acting as an agent of a foreign power, in this case Russia, according to the officials.

This is the clearest evidence so far that the FBI had reason to believe during the 2016 presidential campaign that a Trump campaign adviser was in touch with Russian agents. Such contacts are now at the center of an investigation into whether the campaign coordinated with the Russian government to swing the election in Trump’s favor.

Page has not been accused of any crimes, and it is unclear whether the Justice Department might later seek charges against him or others in connection with Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election. The counterintelligence investigation into Russian efforts to influence U.S. elections began in July, officials have said. Most such investigations don’t result in criminal charges.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-obtained-fisa-warrant-to-monitor-former-trump-adviser-carter-page/2017/04/11/620192ea-1e0e-11e7-ad74-3a742a6e93a7_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_page710pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.230a115e81d9

[Doodley]

1. I hope Trump Tweets about this to try to prove his Obama wiretap claim is true,

because Trump always makes things worse for himself when he sends out his angry Tweets!

[uponit7771]

2. In the SUMMER of 16 !! These guys knew something was up way before the hack IMHO

[L. Coyote]

20. The hack started a year earlier.

[boston bean]

3. Which fucking Republican Senator (MITCH)

tipped the Trump campaign off about this over the summer.

The guy was ceremoniously dropped from the campaign team over the summer.

WHO THE FUCK TOLD TRUMP???? TURTLE??? Oh come on man, IT MUST HAVE BEEN THE TURTLE, who TOLD GIULIANI, who TOLD TRUMP!

[Hortensis]

4. "This is the clearest evidence so far..."

Thanks, Democrat Since Birth. I'd passed over this story.

[triron]

5. This is a bombshell!

[triron]

6. kick for visibility

[sharedvalues]

7. Summer 2016?? Latest word was FISA warrant October 2016

And summer warrant effort against Trump had failed.

Hmm.....

[pnwmom]

11. Oct 2016 was a warrant on the Russia banks. The July warrant was on Carter Page.

[AgadorSparticus]

8. Shouldn't they already have the goods on this guy?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. Maybe. And maybe it lead them to other guys or "the guy". #TrumpRussia is huge, takes time. Patience

[oasis]

9. K and R

[spanone]

10. K&R...👍🏼👍🏼

[gademocrat7]

12. K&R!

[MADem]

14. This guy had better either sing, or run. Brush up on that Russian!

I smell toast. This bit is the part that captured my interest:

The government’s application for the surveillance order targeting Page included a lengthy declaration that laid out investigators’ basis for believing that Page was an agent of the Russian government and knowingly engaged in clandestine intelligence activities on behalf of Moscow, officials said.

Among other things, the application cited contacts that he had with a Russian intelligence operative in New York City in 2013, officials said. Those contacts had earlier surfaced in a federal espionage case brought by the Justice Department against another Russian agent. In addition, the application said Page had other contacts with Russian operatives that have not been publicly disclosed, officials said. ....The application also showed that the FBI and the Justice Department’s national security division have been seeking since July to determine how broad a network of accomplices Russia enlisted in attempting to influence the 2016 presidential election, the officials said.

Since the 90-day warrant was first issued, it has been renewed more than once by the FISA court, the officials said.

[furtheradu]

24. "renewed more than once"!

Let's keep this kicked!

[Warren DeMontague]

15. Kick and Rec

[Takket]

16. 45 is on the brink of starting WW3. i know this is a tough job but... let's get this show on the

road. i'm starting to feel weary that this investigation is just going to be allowed to drag for the next 4 years with these occasional leaks to make us think it is still ongoing. every day this country suffers irreparable harm under this buffoon.

[oasis]

17. K and R

[kentuck]

18. Carter Page met the Russian Ambassador in Cleveland...

...maybe in Cleveland...but not outside of Cleveland...

[L. Coyote]

19. Isn't he cooperating with the FBI at this point -- meaning he rolled on others already.

This may be why we are getting the info now, his part of the investigation could be over with an uimmunity deal to provide evidence on Trump, et. al. Maybe he was wearing a wire for the FBI??

[DetlefK]

21. Methinks, the sweaty weasel is really starting to sweat now.

[Achilleaze]

22. scumbag republicans selling out America to the freaking Evil Empire of russia

[Initech]

25. Yeah how does it feel to know that in the war on terror...

We're the real terrorists?

[furtheradu]

23. K & R..& thanks!

Need this to be #1 story.

[dchill]

26. K&R.

[L. Coyote]

27. K & R

[WinkyDink]

28. Page presents himself like the star of "Doofus Spy: Ask Me Anything!"

[flamingdem]

29. +1