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"You talk about misleading the courts, it's so misleading," said Page about the warrant application in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union" with Jake Tapper.
says Tapper
On Saturday, the FBI released a redacted version of the warrant application on Page, a foreign policy advisor to Donald Trump's campaign, after news organizations and news groups
The publication of the document is noteworthy as it marks the first public disclosure of a very sensitive FISA application.The information contained in the application was widely reported by two declassified memoranda published separately by Republicans and Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee, but Saturday's disclosure put for the first time the FBI's black-and-white argument.
Trump wrote in a tweet Sunday m that the FISA documents "confirm with some doubt" that the Ministry of Justice and the FBI "misled the courts", although the document itself served as a legal justification for the FBI. Mandate of 2016.
"Congratulations @JudicialWatch and @TomFitton for successfully obtaining Carter Page FISA documents," wrote Trump. "As usual, they are ridiculously heavily expurgated, but confirm with little doubt that the Department of Justice and the FBI have misled the courts … Witch Hunt Rigged, a scam!"
Trump continued to claim in a second tweet that his campaign was potentially "illegally" monitored for "the political gain of Crooked Hillary Clinton and the DNC."
"Looking more and more like the Trump campaign for the president was illegally spied on (surveillance) for Crooked Hillary Clinton's political gain and the DNC Ask him how it worked – she did better with Crazy Bernie … get tough now, an illegal scam! Trump's follow-up tweet said Sunday.
The warrant was a major point of contention between Republicans and Democrats. Republicans have accused that this is the evidence of A pattern of abuse by the Justice Department and the FBI targeting the Trump campaign.They also say that the mandate is tainted – based on the opposition's research file on Trump and Russia paid by the Democrats – and that the mandate of FISA helped launch the FBI investigation on Trump and Russia, the whole inquiry is tainted.
Democrats, however, say the mandate of the FISA on Page was justified because of its conta with Russia, and they argue that the FBI and the Ministry of Justice followed the proper procedure to apply for and obtain the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to approve the warrant. The FBI's interest in Page is prior to its knowledge of the opposition's search file and indicates that it is not the FISA's case and mandate that motivated the investigation. the FBI on Russia, but rather a previous conversation with George Papadopoulos. Australian diplomat on alleged Russian dirt on Clinton.
The document released Saturday, which is mor More than 400 pages and includes the original FISA October 2016 mandate to the page as well as three subsequent renewals, says that the FBI "believes that Page has been the object of targeted recruitment by the Russian government. "
"The FBI believes that Page has collaborated and conspired with the Russian government," says the petition, adding that "there is a probable cause that such activities involve or are about to". lead to violations of the criminal laws of the United States. "
that he worked for the Kremlin, and called charges that he had advised Moscow" spin ".
"No, I have never been an agent of a foreign power by any imaginative effort," he said. "Maybe after the G20, while they were preparing to do it in St. Petersburg, I could have attended a few meetings that were attended by many people – including members of the G20. the Obama administration – and Geneva, Paris, et cetera, but I've never been close to what is described here. "
Trump also continued to tweet Sunday on the publication of the document, citing Pete Hegseth Fox and Andrew McCarthy. "Andrew McCarthy -" I said that it could never happen, it's so bad that they should be watching the judges who signed on to this thing, not just those who have it. given. you & # 39. On the FISA scam that led to the faked Mueller Witch Hunt! Trump wrote .
