So its OK to illegally secure warrants to spy on citizens of the USA?
You are a NOTHINGBURGER!
CARTER PAGE
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1993 - graduated from the United States Naval Academy
- worked as a researcher for the House Armed Services Committee
- served in the Navy for five years, including a tour in western Morocco as an intelligence officer
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1998 - after leaving the Navy, Page joined the Eurasia Group, a strategy consulting firm, but left 3 months later
- Pages superiors described him as having a strong pro-Russian stance was "not a good fit"
- Page's foreign-policy views had "an edgy Putinist resentment" and a sympathy to Russian leader Vladimir Putin's criticisms of the US
- Page became increasingly critical of US foreign policy toward Russia, and more supportive of Putin, with a US official describing Page as "a brazen apologist for anything Moscow did"
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2000 - Page joined Merrill Lynch as an investment banker with the firm's London office, became a vice president in the company's Moscow office, and later served as COO for Merrill Lynch's energy and power department in New York
- worked on transactions involving Gazprom and other leading Russian energy companies
- left Merrill Lynch in 2008, Page founded his own investment fund, Global Energy Capital with partner James Richard and a former mid-level Gazprom executive, Sergei Yatsenko
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- Page was frequently quoted by Russian state television, where he is presented as a "famous American economist".
- 2013 - Russian intelligence operatives attempted to recruit Page, and one described him as enthusiastic about business opportunities in Russia but an "idiot"
- 2014 - Page became the subject of a FISA warrant by the FBI, approximately 2 years prior to Trump becoming a presidential candidate and before Page joined the Campaign as a foreign affairs advisor in 2016
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_Page
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The Nunes Memo focuses on just one in a succession of DISA warrants for Carter Page sought by the FBI that had been investigating him since 2014!
The FBI would have been negligent in their duty if the they hadn't been investigating an American citizen whom they believed the Russians were trying to recruit.
The fact that the Trump Campaign, in its infinite wisdom, would later hire Carter Page as a foreign affairs advisor, who was already under investigation, was not the fault of the FBI.
