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Originally Posted by spence
The FISA warrant was so the FBI could INVESTIGATE him.
Seems like the IG found sufficient justification for the initial warrant and neither the IG or Republican led investigation found no evidence of political bias influencing their behavior, even if mistakes had been made.
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There were 4 FISA warrants re Page. The DOJ found the last two were invalid.
The FBI used the Steele Dossier as verified probable cause--none of the Page allegations in the dossier had been validated by the FBI when they were presented to the FISA court as probable cause. It was a lie.
The FBI withheld from the FISA court key details that would have undercut the dossier’s credibility, including a warning from a top Justice Department official that Steele may have been hired by someone associated with presidential candidate Clinton or the Democratic National Committee. The FBI also deceived the FISA court by wrongly claiming that Steele’s prior informant work had been “used in criminal proceedings” by the Justice Department.
They supposedly "investigated" Page for a year, already being aware that he had helped them previously to convict Evgeny Buryakov in a conspiracy to work For Russian Intelligence.
If they were actually "investigating" Page, it would have been easy to find that he had also helped the CIA vs Russia.
FBI Director Christopher Wray agreed that the Justice Department and the FBI illegally surveilled Carter Page.
The FBI, the brilliant Sherlockians they're reputed to be, undoubtedly knew they had no probable cause for surveilling Page and had to fudge there FISA requests to get their warrants.
Unless they were particularly dense in their supposed "investigation" of Carter Page, it wouldn't have taken them a year to find that his connections to Russia were legitimate, and that he was no Russian agent. But they could sure use Carter's association with Trump to secretly surveil the Trump Campaign.
One would think that those concerned with saving "our democracy" would fear that these kind of deep state shenanigans are a threat to it.