FBI says monitoring of ex-Trump aide should've ended sooner
Source: Associated Press
The Justice Department has concluded that it should have ended its surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser earlier than it did because there was insufficient predication" to continue eavesdropping
By The Associated Press
January 25, 2020, 5:42 PM
2 min read
WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department has concluded that it should have ended its surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser earlier than it did because there was insufficient predication" to continue eavesdropping, according to an order made public Thursday by a secretive intelligence court.
The FBI obtained a warrant in 2016 to eavesdrop on former Trump national security aide Carter Page on suspicions that he was secretly a Russian agent. The Justice Department renewed the warrant three times, including during the early months of the Trump administration.
But the Justice Department's inspector general has harshly criticized the FBI's handing of those applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. It says the FBI omitted from the court key details that undercut their original premise about Page, who has denied any wrongdoing and was never charged as part of the investigation into ties between Russia and the Trump campaign.
In an order made public Thursday, the court's chief judge, James Boasberg, says the Justice Department informed the court last month that two of the four applications were invalid because there was insufficient predication to establish probable cause to believe that (Carter) Page was acting as an agent of a foreign power."
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Roy Rolling
(6,918 posts)I now doubt the FBI again as I did when, under J Edgar Hoover, they were busy enforcing the status quo by smearing John Lennon, Martin Luther King, and every other 60s free-thinker.
Why are they even speculating again about their behavior four years ago?
yaesu
(8,020 posts)dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)the Russians in 2014 , then again in 2016. This MF should be under surveillance for the rest of his life.
Unbelievable.
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)until then I know who they are.
Perseus
(4,341 posts)Putin is so happy, trump is the best investments he has ever made, trump is the gift that keeps on giving.
PSPS
(13,603 posts)Takket
(21,578 posts)NecklyTyler
(1,173 posts)Public opinion was on our side, we would have succeeded if the effort was made right after he was elected.
oldsoftie
(12,558 posts)There would have been far less to go on compared to now & would've just looked like sour grapes
IMO anyway
NecklyTyler
(1,173 posts)There was evidence of Russian collusion.
There was evidence he was morally and ethically unfit to hold office.
He had no knowledge in the operation of Government.
Trump had not cemented his power in the Government.
And most of all, public opinion was against him. He would have been impeached if the case was made early.
oldsoftie
(12,558 posts)Al Green introduced impeachment articles more than once i believe.
Any evidence available THEN is available NOW.
Nancy Pelosi was right from the start.
How was public opinion against him more back then than it is now? He's more popular NOW than in '17?? I doubt it.
Vinca
(50,279 posts)oldsoftie
(12,558 posts)karynnj
(59,504 posts)The first one was October 2016 and then there were 3 month extensions.
czarjak
(11,278 posts)Turbineguy
(37,345 posts)They probably stopped using him.