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Sharyl Attkisson Interviews Carter Page - The Post & Email thepostemail.com/2019/03/31/sha…
In the 23-minute interview, Attkisson uncovered a fact perhaps not widely known: that in late September 2016, Page contacted Comey in response to a Yahoo! News article titled, “U.S. intel officials probe ties between Trump adviser and Kremlin”
The article, from September 23, 2016 and written by longtime NBC reporter Michael Isikoff, was much later revealed to have been the product of “circular reporting,” meaning that it was written as a result of information provided by a single source and not by independent research
The information for the article was provided by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, whose collection of allegations against the Trump campaign, now known as the “dossier,” remains unverified.
The result of Isikoff’s article, Page said, was that he became the subject the following month and continuously for a year of surveillance warrants issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC).
Although unverified, Justice and FBI officials, including Comey and Rosenstein, signed their names to warrant applications based largely, if not entirely, on the dossier, and failed to reveal to the FISA court its political origins with the Clinton campaign and DNC.
Beginning on October 21, 2016, four successive warrants were granted to monitor Page’s communications. That meant, Page confirmed, that his conversations with then-Trump advisor Steve Bannon, who might have then spoken with Trump, were likely captured by the US intell community.
Rather than acting against U.S. interests, Page explained to Attkisson, “going back many, many years,” he has provided intelligence to the FBI and the CIA as a result of his Navy training and “relationships.”
On Twitter, Page has reported threats against his life as a result of the false allegations. In response to Attkisson’s question as to the most troubling aspect of the Russia “collusion” investigation, he responded, “The damage that it’s done to the country.”
