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Trump and his allies claim the Steele Dossier was the sole basis for a surveillance warrant of Carter Page. They are lying.
ADAM PECK JUL 22, 2018, 11:07 AM
On Saturday night, the New York Times published a report detailing the public disclosure of more than 400 pages of heavily redacted documents related to a FISA warrant filed in 2016 against Carter Page, an adviser for Donald Trumps presidential campaign.
Page has been a key focus of the intelligence communitys investigation into Russian interference from the very beginning. And as Saturdays disclosure reveals, the FBI presented enough probable cause suggesting Page had been recruited by Russian officials that four separate Republican-appointed judges authorized still-undisclosed surveillance measures targeting Page.
Oddly, both Donald Trump and Carter Page tried to spin Saturdays disclosure as some kind of victory. Several members of the far-right fringe in Congress led by Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) lied to the public several months ago via a memo that falsely asserted the FBI sought the warrant on the sole basis of the infamous Steele dossier, a Republican-conceived memo written by a former British intelligence officer containing several salacious rumors about Donald Trump.
As Democrats and the FBI later disclosed and as Saturdays release makes clear the dossier was far from the only evidence provided to the FISA court, and its inclusion contained a lengthy caveat noting the politicized nature and unsubstantiated claims contained within the document. Incidentally, several of the allegations contained in the dossier have since been verified. On Sunday, CNNs Jake Tapper invited Page to respond to Saturdays revelations, and it took exactly one question for him to trip over the facts of the case.
https://thinkprogress.org/fisa-release-gop-lying-9973e5c28101/
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