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Belated kudos to @JasonLeopold and BuzzFeed for their (ongoing!) prying loose of the Mueller 302s.

Full stack (and summary) of the latest tranche is here:

buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…

For my money, the best part is page 161...

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...where we learn that Trump campaign adviser Carter Page interrupts the FBI agents questioning him so he can insist to them that he considered himself to be a "highest level contact" for the Russian intelligence services:

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"Page referenced himself being 'on the books'."

"[The FBI Special Agent] asked if Page understood that the interviewing agents define that phrase as being in some form of a source-handler relationship, either witting or unwitting, with the [Russian Intelligence Services]...

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"[The Agent] then asked Page if he agreed that -- including the circumstances of his relationship with Bulatov and Podobnyy [Russian spies caught in the US] -- Page was 'on the books' of the [Russian Intelligence Services]. Page agreed that he was on the RIS books."

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Emma Loop
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I’m reading through KT McFarland’s FBI interview summaries (302s) from today’s batch of #MuellerMemos.

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