FBI told the OIG it was snooping on Page and Papadopoulos because of their contacts with #Russia. (Thread 👇) theepochtimes.com/fbi-targeted-t…
The informant has been identified by @EpochTimes and others as Cambridge professor #StephanHalper.
#IGHorowitz made the revelations in a Dec. 9 report on his review of a #FISA warrant taken out by the FBI against Page and other aspects of the related FBI investigation.
As opposed to criminal investigations, counterintelligence investigations don’t require any allegation of a crime.
The #FISA warrant on Page was obtained in Oct 2016, was renewed 3 times, and lasted well into 2017.
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@FBI ditched him in 2011 for “aggressiveness toward handling agents as a result of what [Halper] perceived as not enough compensation” and “questionable allegiance to the [intelligence] targets.”
His new handler, who later joined the #CrossfireHurricane team, called Halper “mercurial” but said he was kicked out because the previous handler was “not the right match” for Halper.
The agent said it was a coincidence that Halper happened to have met with Page…
“The Crossfire Hurricane team ‘couldn’t believe [their] luck’ that Source 2 had contacts with three of their four subjects,” the agent said.
Halper talked to both multiple times.
But the denials were excluded from the @CarterWPage #FISA warrant.
Another two informants were supposed to talk to Papadopoulos too, but “those attempted contacts did not lead to any operational activity,” the OIG report says.
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They were only given unclassified “counterintelligence awareness” briefings.
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