"Halper’s handling agent told the IG it was “serendipitous” that Source 2 — the moniker used for the unnamed Halper — “had contacts with three of their four subjects, including Carter Page.” thefederalist.com/2020/01/08/exc…
"They “couldn’t believe [their] luck,” the handling agent noted, upon learning that Halper knew Michael Flynn and Paul Manafort, and had crossed paths with Page just weeks before." @ProfMJCleveland
@ProfMJCleveland The IG report noted that Halper said he “had been ‘non-committal’ about joining the campaign when discussing it with Carter Page.”
“That is quite clearly not a correct characterization,” Page said. “I never asked him ‘to be a foreign policy advisor for the Trump campaign,’”
“That is quite clearly not a correct characterization,” Page said. “I never asked him ‘to be a foreign policy advisor for the Trump campaign,’”
..."although it is possible, Page acknowledged, that they explored some ways Halper might get involved indirectly at some point down the road." thefederalist.com/2020/01/08/exc…
.@ProfMJCleveland : "Page’s comments raise more questions about Halper and whether Halper’s mid-July meeting with the Trump adviser was truly “serendipitous.”The IG report unequivocally stated the FBI had not used any confidential human source, prior to the July 31, 2016...
..launch of Crossfire Hurricane. Yet there was Halper at a small dinner gathering, chatting with Page, possibly about the Trump campaign. And it was Halper, not the FBI, who raised Page as a potential person of interest in the Crossfire Hurricane team’s first meeting with Halper"
Did Halper hope to be tasked by FBI with targeting Page? Had Halper been tasked by another agency already? And did Halper exaggerate the content of his conversation with Page to make Page appear instrumental in the Trump campaign. If so, for what purpose? thefederalist.com/2020/01/08/exc…
