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The Nunes memo is interesting for a number of reasons, but most importantly was the revelation by Andrew McCabe that the Steele dossier was an important factor in the warrant being renewed.
Carter Page was under FISA surveillance for unrelated reasons why back in 2014, in what still remains largely a mystery publicly. This was long before the dossier had been composed by Steele, or Trump was even running for president.
The timeline isn't exactly clear as to how many times the original warrant was renewed, or exactly why. What is clear is that people at high levels of the DOJ and FBI believed there was cause to surveil Page, and four separate FISC judges agreed with them.
If one goes back to the Steele dossier, it alleges the Page had undisclosed meetings with Rosneft executive chairman, Igor Sechin, where he discussed a brokering of what was basically a lucrative bribe to the Trump campaign to repeal the Maginstky act, should Trump become president.
Page publicly denied all of these claims for several months, but came clean to the Senate committees that he did meet with Sechin, and he did discuss shares of Rosneft being brokered -- though he denied anything illicit happened. This was a stark contrast to his previous public statements, which appear to have been intentionally deceptive.
So how does this tie into the FISA warrant? If McCabe really did say that the dossier was used as evidence, that means the FBI knew that elements of it had to be true in regards to Page, as they would have known from their own surveillance of him. If that was the case then it makes perfect sense that a judge was compelled to renew the warrant -- as the work of Steele would have been shown reliable to the court.
It's speculation on my part, but this seems to make sense of everything. If I'm right in my assessment, then it means the Steele document is more reliable than previously assumed.
Carter Page congressional testimony corroborates Steele dossier parts - Business Insider
Thank you, Nunes. :thumbs:
Carter Page was under FISA surveillance for unrelated reasons why back in 2014, in what still remains largely a mystery publicly. This was long before the dossier had been composed by Steele, or Trump was even running for president.
The timeline isn't exactly clear as to how many times the original warrant was renewed, or exactly why. What is clear is that people at high levels of the DOJ and FBI believed there was cause to surveil Page, and four separate FISC judges agreed with them.
If one goes back to the Steele dossier, it alleges the Page had undisclosed meetings with Rosneft executive chairman, Igor Sechin, where he discussed a brokering of what was basically a lucrative bribe to the Trump campaign to repeal the Maginstky act, should Trump become president.
Page publicly denied all of these claims for several months, but came clean to the Senate committees that he did meet with Sechin, and he did discuss shares of Rosneft being brokered -- though he denied anything illicit happened. This was a stark contrast to his previous public statements, which appear to have been intentionally deceptive.
So how does this tie into the FISA warrant? If McCabe really did say that the dossier was used as evidence, that means the FBI knew that elements of it had to be true in regards to Page, as they would have known from their own surveillance of him. If that was the case then it makes perfect sense that a judge was compelled to renew the warrant -- as the work of Steele would have been shown reliable to the court.
It's speculation on my part, but this seems to make sense of everything. If I'm right in my assessment, then it means the Steele document is more reliable than previously assumed.
Carter Page congressional testimony corroborates Steele dossier parts - Business Insider
Thank you, Nunes. :thumbs:
