The plea agreement, which was released on Wednesday, suggests another area ripe for inquiry: FBI Agent Stephen Somma's earlier misrepresentation of former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page's status to those preparing the initial Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act applications to surveil Page.
While Clinesmith bears responsibility for altering the email concerning Page's status, thereby clearing the way for the fourth FISA warrant, someone or some-many are responsible for failing to inform the individuals drafting and approving the initial FISA application about the details of the August 17, 2016, memo.
More People Hiding the Truth about Carter Page Additionally, no one from the Crossfire Hurricane team provided attorneys from the National Security Division-the division that assists with FISA applications-the August 17, 2016, memorandum or informed them of that memorandum's contents.
Specifically: In response to a question from the OI Attorney in late September 2016 as to whether Carter Page had a current or prior relationship with the other agency, Case Agent 1 stated that Page's relationship was 'date' and 'outside scope.
Case Agent #1 was instantaneously interested in surveilling Page.
While the assistant special agent in charge assured Gaeta the reports would be "Walled off" from agents in New York field office, might Somma nonetheless have known of Steele's reporting? Was that why he was so anxious to obtain a FISA warrant on Page? Other Crossfire Hurricane Members Implicated in Lies Beyond these questions, there also remains the question of what other members of the Crossfire Hurricane team knew of Page's relationship with the other agency and who else bore responsibility for the omission in the initial FISA application.
Further, the IG report stated that "On September 28, 2016, the OI Attorney emailed Case Agent 1 a draft of the FISA application, copying other members of the Crossfire Hurricane team. As noted above, in a comment in the draft application, the OI Attorney asked 'do we know if there is any truth to Page's claim that he has provided information to -was he considered a source/asset/whatever?" What we don't know from the report is who those other members of the team were, although the IG report suggests that Supervisory Special Agent 1 also received the August 17 memorandum.
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