You will hear on Monday that the FBI withheld exculpatory evidence Trump campaign advisors provided to Halper. Recall: @jsolomonReports on “Damning proof of innocence that FBI likely withheld in Russian probe”. thehill.com/opinion/white-…
Page said “he was incredulous at the suggestions and told everyone he knew, including Halper, that he had not met either Russian intel figure and knew of no Trump-Moscow coordination...
...Page: “I'm certain that nothing I said that day at the professor's farm could be deemed as anything other than exculpatory. And once again, in September, I explained reality to the FBI.” in a letter he sent to then-FBI Director Comey a few weeks after his Halper meeting...
Solomon: “Multiple sources tell me none of the FISA applications the FBI submitted to judges over the course of a year's surveillance of Page made any mention of exculpatory statements or protestations of innocence that Page made to informants.”
Solomon: “Papadopoulos told me he pointedly remembers his response: "I made it clear to Halper that what he was suggesting did not only amount to treason, but that I had absolutely no idea what he was talking about and had no information at all about anyone involved with the...
...campaign who might have been involved with a conspiracy because there never was a conspiracy and no one was colluding with a foreign power, especially Russia.” Sources familiar with FISA applications say they contain no evidence that Papadopoulos made exculpatory statements...
...unwittingly to an FBI informer.
If such statements exist, in the form of a tape or a transcript or an FBI interview report - three routine investigative tools the FBI uses when managing informers - then it would be a huge omission that likely violated FBI rules.”
If such statements exist, in the form of a tape or a transcript or an FBI interview report - three routine investigative tools the FBI uses when managing informers - then it would be a huge omission that likely violated FBI rules.”
