CARTER PAGE CONDUIT FOR DOMESTIC SPYING BY FBI
Carter Page’s name has cropped up frequently in the press over the last number of years of turmoil in Washington DC. Most of us simply do not understand why he is referenced so frequently or what we should know about this person.
Here it is in a nutshell.
Carter Page is an American citizen—a former US Naval officer—an investor in petroleum and gas futures—and an advisor to the Trump election campaign in 2016. Carter Page who hails from Poughkeepsie NY —was spied on by the FBI using techniques only reserved for foreign agents WITHIN the USA. Page was targeted to gain access to other American citizens who could not be spied on—but were the real targets. For by listening in on Page’s telephone calls and secretly reading his emails and other communications the FBI could record the comments of all those with whom Page communicated. They could spy on all the other American citizens he communicated with. Carter Page was NOT the actual target of the spying investigation—it was all those other people who Page might have met with. Who were they?
Carter Page is an American citizen—a former US Naval officer—an investor in petroleum and gas futures—and an advisor to the Trump election campaign in 2016. Carter Page who hails from Poughkeepsie NY —was spied on by the FBI using techniques only reserved for foreign agents WITHIN the USA. Page was targeted to gain access to other American citizens who could not be spied on—but were the real targets. For by listening in on Page’s telephone calls and secretly reading his emails and other communications the FBI could record the comments of all those with whom Page communicated. They could spy on all the other American citizens he communicated with. Carter Page was NOT the actual target of the spying investigation—it was all those other people who Page might have met with. Who were they?
So who were the REAl TARGETS I? Donald Trump, and his inner circle.
This normally illegal domestic spying scheme on Page by the FBI (our Constitution forbids spying on our citizens ) could take place only if a special secret court gives the OK to do it. The court is known as the FISA court (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court) The agency seeking a warrant (formal permission) must submit a written document listing the reasons and facts about the application to the FISA court judge who may then give permission (or not).
The FBI seemed to have picked Page as a target for investigation only because of his work in Moscow for an American firm and his own business interests involved Russian firms. Page was the crack in the wall through which they could sneak their listening probe.
In regard to the FISA application regarding Carter Page, why did they target him? Page had worked for Merrill Lynch’s energy and power division in Moscow. Page, as chief operating officer for ML worked on transactions with leading Russian energy companies such as Gasprom. Page joined with parter James Richards and former Russian Gazprom executive Sergei Yatsenko to form their own company:Global Energy Capital. His business interests were centered in the energy field in the Middle East and in Russia. His contacts in Russia were useful to the CIA and he became a trusted intelligence source for that agency in the early 2000s.
The recent Inspector general report (Horowitz) on the origins of the Russian Collusion Investigation revealed that Page was so critical to that investigation getting the inside information they thought would expose Trumps, that an FBI agent actually altered a warrant application to spy on Page by removing a reference of his status as an accredited informer for the CIA from the warrant application so as to strengthen their case to spy on Page. If Page was an trusted informer for the CIA, why target him? He was the FBI’s main opening into spying on the Trump campaign and later after Trump was elected on the transition team. The FBI upper echelon of Trump haters were apparently so desperate to get such access that they actually descended into the illegality of altering documents and facts to achieve their illicit goals. The hid information by omission that would have nullified their FISA application. They renewed it with the same omissions several times over.
In regard to the FISA application regarding Carter Page, why did they target him? Page had worked for Merrill Lynch’s energy and power division in Moscow. Page, as chief operating officer for ML worked on transactions with leading Russian energy companies such as Gasprom. Page joined with parter James Richards and former Russian Gazprom executive Sergei Yatsenko to form their own company:Global Energy Capital. His business interests were centered in the energy field in the Middle East and in Russia. His contacts in Russia were useful to the CIA and he became a trusted intelligence source for that agency in the early 2000s.
The recent Inspector general report (Horowitz) on the origins of the Russian Collusion Investigation revealed that Page was so critical to that investigation getting the inside information they thought would expose Trumps, that an FBI agent actually altered a warrant application to spy on Page by removing a reference of his status as an accredited informer for the CIA from the warrant application so as to strengthen their case to spy on Page. If Page was an trusted informer for the CIA, why target him? He was the FBI’s main opening into spying on the Trump campaign and later after Trump was elected on the transition team. The FBI upper echelon of Trump haters were apparently so desperate to get such access that they actually descended into the illegality of altering documents and facts to achieve their illicit goals. The hid information by omission that would have nullified their FISA application. They renewed it with the same omissions several times over.
So when you read the name “Carter Page” you must understand that Page was the tool by which rogue elements in our government used to try to upend a political campaign and then after the election to take down a duly elected President. You must understand that spying on Page was only a ruse to get information on a political enemy and later on the president elect
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