Judge in Manafort case says Mueller's aim is to hurt Trump

What was that? Lol

 

Or maybe neither?

 

Oh it’s hilarious lol

 

That's the way I see it too, I've always maintained the "investigation" is just a ploy to hold a cloud of illegitimacy over Trump, the aim is to justify "resistance" to everything he does.

 

Yes indeed

 

Or not

 

Poor Alan is damaging his reputation

 

So much for illegal huh?

 

The left has been saying that since they drove him away. Yet here he is 20 years later and still showing why Leftists don't understand the Constitution.

 

They claimed in the FISA warrant, without corroborated evidence, that Carter Page was Russian spy.

The application asserts at the beginning that Carter Page is "[a]n agent of a foreign power," specifically the Russian Federation, and that Page "[k]nowingly engaged in clandestine intelligence activities for or on behalf of [Russia]."

Was Page really a spy, or used as a figleaf for unconstitutional spying on the Trump campaign?

Suppose Carter Page was really a foreign agent. What happens to Americans who are discovered to be Russian spies? Ask Robert Hanssen, who is currently a guest at Supermax prison in Colorado. Hanssen is a former FBI agent who spied for the Soviet Union and then the Russian Federation, now currently serving a life sentence without parole.

Instead, Mr. Page was a guest of Jake Tapper on his CNN weekend State of the Union show. Page's Twitter account is active, and he seems to have as much freedom as anyone else making the rounds on cable news shows.



The high bar for a Title 1 warrant.

If the agent of a foreign power is a U.S. person, the government must show that the U.S. person is engaging in espionage, terrorism, or sabotage by or on behalf of a foreign power that involves a violation of a criminal statute.

The FISC decides whether to approve or deny an application based on whether the government has demonstrated probable cause to believe the proposed target is a foreign power or agent of a foreign power, and that the facility or place where the electronic surveillance will be directed is being used by the foreign power or agent of a foreign power.​

This type of warrant is reserved for agents of foreign governments knowingly engaging in clandestine intelligence activities, just as the FISA application spelled out. This means that Carter Page was a Russian spy, engaged "in espionage, terrorism, or sabotage." Yet he has not been indicted or charged with anything by the FBI or Team Mueller. Why not?

The FISA application was dated October 2016, after Page left the Trump campaign. If the FBI believed Page to be a foreign agent, at the least, agents should have warned the Trump campaign, which they did not, and he should have been arrested and prosecuted. He would be in a federal prison these days, not a guest on Jake Tapper's CNN show.

The beauty of a Title 1 FISA warrant is that a provision called Section 702 allows "incidental surveillance," including "calls, e-mails, chats, text messages, and other conversations." Anyone Page had contact with then becomes fair game, including those within the Trump campaign and organization, however brief his stint was in the campaign.

This gave the FBI-DOJ the justification to stick its nose into the Trump tent – full access. Or "wiretapping Trump Tower" as President Trump tweeted early last year.

These incidental contacts of Carter Page could be unmasked by Susan Rice, Samantha Power, and others in the Obama administration, placed in the Presidential Daily Brief, not only for President Obama, but also for many others in the White House. Many of these have the Washington Post and New York Times on speed dial, convenient for leaking classified information.

How else to explain the contents of an afternoon phone call between President Trump and a foreign leader surfacing on the evening news that same day? As well as other tidbits designed to fuel the collusion narrative?

All quite illegal. It was a criminal conspiracy to spy on a presidential campaign and new administration. They used Carter Page as the means to obtain their search warrants in the name of "Russian meddling" in the Trump campaign and election.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/07/is_carter_page_emreallyem_a_russian_agent.html