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Carter Page FISA Documents Are Released by Justice Department
The documents submitted to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court used to obtain warrant(s) to surveil dope Carter Page were released by the Department of Justice this weekend. They name Carter Page “An Agent of a Foreign Power” [Russia]. The application states that Carter Page was about to “engage in intelligence activities (other than intelligence gathering)…on behalf of a foreign power.” and further states, “The FBI believes Carter Page has been the target of recruitment by the Russian Government.”
This is an important part of the application to remember. The FBI stated Page hadn’t done anything yet; they believed he was the target of a Russian recruiting effort; therefore they wanted full surveillance on him, namely monitoring all of his phone calls. Usually phone calls can only be intercepted after, you know, a crime has been committed (think Mafia and organized crime where probable cause is shown), and the NSA is prohibited from listening to American citizens’ phone calls. The FBI needed a FISA warrant in order to listen to all of his phone calls (incoming and outgoing, to every person, foreign or domestic), for whatever reason (not restricted to calls specific to a crime – because the crime alleged is so broad and the application is vast in scope).
Check out a sneak peek of the FISA application for the Carter Page warrant below:
As you can see, it is very detailed, open, and transparent. One thing we can glean from this document is that the FBI seems to love Marks-A-Lot markers. But in all seriousness this page fully explains how important it was to fully surveil Mr Page; four times in fact!
Click here to read 412 page filing to the FISA court.
