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On November 2, 2017, Page testified to the U.S. House Intelligence Committee that he had informed Jeff Sessions, Corey Lewandowski, Hope Hicks and other Trump campaign officials that he was traveling to Russia to give a speech in July 2016.[34][35][36]
Page testified that he had met with Russian government officials during this trip and had sent a post-meeting report via email to members of the Trump campaign.[37] He also indicated that campaign co-chairman Sam Clovis had asked him to sign a non-disclosure agreement about his trip.[38] Elements of Page's testimony contradicted prior claims by Trump, Sessions, and others in the Trump administration.[34][37][39][40] Lewandowski, who had previously denied knowing Page or meeting him during the campaign, said after Page's testimony that his memory was refreshed and acknowledged that he had been aware of Page's trip to Russia.[41]
Page also testified that after delivering a commencement speech at the New Economic School in Moscow, he spoke briefly with one of the people in attendance, Arkady Dvorkovich, a Deputy Prime Minister in Dmitry Medvedev's cabinet, contradicting his previous statements not to have spoken to anyone connected with the Russian government.[42] In addition, while Page denied a meeting with Igor Sechin, the president of state-run Russian oil conglomerate Rosneft as alleged in the Donald TrumpRussia dossier, he did say he met with Andrey Baranov, Rosneft's head of investor relations.[43] The dossier alleges that Sechin offered Page the brokerage fee from the sale of up to 19 percent of Rosneft if he worked to roll back Magnitsky Act economic sanctions that had been imposed on Russia in 2012.[43][44][45] Page testified that he did not "directly" express support for lifting the sanctions during the meeting with Baranov, but that he might have mentioned the proposed Rosneft transaction.[43]
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kentuck
(111,110 posts)wishstar
(5,271 posts)"It is not clear what the FBI learned about Pages late-2016 travel abroad, which occurred just weeks after Trumps election. But five senior Justice Department and FBI officials signed off on three requests for extensions of the foreign intelligence surveillance warrant for Page; all the requests were approved by a federal judge, according to the Republican memo.
Page released a statement Friday praising GOP lawmakers for revealing an unprecedented abuse of process in their document.
To obtain a warrant to monitor a U.S. citizen under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the Justice Department must convince a judge that there is probable cause to suspect that the person is an agent of a foreign power and is engaged in criminal conduct. Such warrants expire after 90 days.
To receive an extension, the departments attorneys generally produce new evidence showing the judge that the monitoring has been producing information that advances the investigation.
Late last year, Page provided vague and at times contradictory answers about the December 2016 trip to Russia under intense questioning from the House Intelligence Committee."
Angry Dragon
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(7,947 posts)On AM Joy, Naveed Jamali (former undercover special agent) said that Carter Page had been implicated in not one but two Russian spy operations which resulted in the Russians being jailed or deported... and he walked away scot-free. The supposition was that he maybe a double-agent, or at least reporting to the FBI.
I've said that here on DU a few times. Last week, a day after I had, Malcolm Nance said that this may be one of the reasons Nunes etc were pushing the memo.