1.) And remember, Bill Priestap was the supervising agent for all FARA investigations performed by the New York Field Office in 2013, when Page was the UCE placing electronic surveillance within the SVR Residentura in New York City.
2.) In other words, Priestap was supervising the agents who were running Page against Sporyshev and Podobnyy, the two SVR agents who were running Buryakov as an unregistered foreign agent.
3.) Even though he left that position sometime in 2014 or 2015, and eventually head to FBI HQ to oversee FBI FARA investigations, Priestap was responsible for Carter Page operationally throughout his contact with Sporyshev and Podobnyy.
4.) Priestap would have known everything operationally about the Buryakov investigation and prosecution when the US Attorney for SDNY announced Buryakov’s guilty plea on March 11, 2016.
justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/e…
justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/e…
5.) Priestap would have known all of this information — Page’s UCE status, his operational importance to burning three SVR agents — when the order to open a FARA investigation into Page came down through his office on April 1, 2016. 
6.) Carter Page was a key chain of custody witness against Buryakov. Without his testimony, SDNY could not prove the predicate for the recorded conversations between Sporyshev and Podobnyy to be admitted into evidence to link Buryakov to the SVR.
7.) And who do you think was Director of the FBI when Page was engaged operationally against Sporyshev and Podobnyy?
Answer: Robert Mueller
Answer: Robert Mueller
8.) Do you think the Director of the FBI, Robert Mueller, might have wanted to know about [and sign-off on] the conducting of electronic surveillance inside the equivalent of a Russian consulate?
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