Carter Page was a CIA asset, not a Russian spy, and the FBI knew it early on but plowed ahead with its fantasy anyway.
The FBI actually used information from Page in a prosecution of Russian spies.
More to the point, in August 2016, Page had credibly insisted to a covert FBI informant, Stefan Halper, that key allegations about Page were false: Page did not even know Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, let alone act as Manafort's intermediary in a Trump-Russia espionage conspiracy; and Page had not recently met in Moscow with Putin-regime heavyweights Igor Sechin and Igor Divyekin.
Weeks before the FBI and the Obama Justice Department first applied for a FISA warrant on the theory that Page was a spy for the Kremlin, the FBI team conducting the investigation had information showing the theory was untenable.
The decision to represent to the FISC that Page was a Russian spy had been made way above his pay grade.
If Page had been a CIA operative during meetings with Russians - meetings that the FBI had sworn to the court showed Page was a traitorous spy - then the FBI would have some serious explaining to do.
Bear in mind: The incumbent Democratic administration had opened an election-year investigation of its Republican opposition, and the FBI had heavily relied on bogus evidence generated by the Democratic campaign to claim that Page was a spy for Russia.
Monday, August 24, 2020
Kevin Clinesmith & Russia Probe: FBI Knew Carter Page Was Not a Russian Spy
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