New Court Docs Blow Open FBI's Abuse of Carter Page, 'Most Egregious' FISA Violations in 40 Years

The FBI had applied for warrant from the court to spy on a foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign named Carter Page.

The Horowitz report on the FBI probe found no less than 17 of what it described as "Significant errors or omissions" in the FBI's applications for Page surveillance to the FISA Court.

The report revealed that the FBI had been informed by memo as early as August 2016 that Carter Page had worked as a source for "Another U.S. government agency" - assumed to be the CIA. An explanation of the whole story of corruption would require an entire book, but I will focus upon the actions of an FBI lawyer named Kevin Clinesmith, now 36, who worked closely with then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, Special Agent Peter Strzok, then-head of FBI counterintelligence and the lead agent on this case, and then-FBI lawyer Lisa Page, who was having an affair with Strzok at the time.

After discovering a collection of "Little noticed" documents which had been submitted by special counsel John Durham, who is investigating the origins of the FBI Trump probe, court filings by Carter Page's lawyers, and conducting interviews with former FBI officials, RealClearInvestigations' reporter Paul Sperry has published a painstakingly prepared report on his findings.

The documents submitted by Durham and Carter Page's attorneys, Sperry writes, confirm that Clinesmith, McCabe, Strzok, Lisa Page and other FBI officials had received a memo from the CIA on Aug. 17, 2016 which confirmed that Carter Page had worked on the CIA's behalf.

Sperry reports the memo stated that "Page had been approved for 'operational contact' from 2008 to 2013 and described Page's interactions with Russian intelligence officers, including some cited nefariously in the FISA applications. It further informed Crossfire investigators that Page briefed the CIA about these contacts, and the CIA determined that Page was 'candid' in his reporting."

The August 2016 memo from the CIA about Carter Page, Sperry writes, "Was entered in the FBI's system of record known as 'Sentinel,' and everybody on the Crossfire team had access to it - including Strzok and McCabe's legal counsel Page - and yet nobody told the FISA court about it."

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