The Department of Justice, on Saturday, released a redacted copy of the documents (PDF 412 pages) that make up the FISA warrant application used to obtain a warrant to wiretap Cater Page, the onetime aid for the Trump campaign.
This release comes after many media outlets, such as The New York Times, filed Freedom of Information Act requests to obtain the much debated documents.
The documents while heavily redacted offer us a glimpse into the reasoning behind obtaining the surveillance warrant and the subsequent renewal applications for Page.
The application explains in the first two pages, with redaction’s, that the FBI had reason to suspect Page was a foreign agent, stating on page 2 “Target of this application is an agent of a foreign power.” It goes on to explain that Russia is the foreign power Page is suspected of being an agent of.
The PDF is 412 pages long. For now, here are some twitter highlights, as this is a developing story, more will follow.
Page 22 in the below tweet, partially redacted, states that according to a media source, it lays out Page’s “secret meeting with Igor Sechin”
New FISA documents discredit Nunes
Dem memo stated: "The GOP [Nunes] memo also claims that a Yahoo News article was used to corroborate Steele, but this is not at all why the article was referenced"
FBI used Yahoo article for Section showing Page denied cooperation with Russia: pic.twitter.com/7So4XM3Ez0
— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) July 21, 2018
Page 23 in the footnote it explains about Steele’s contact with the media.
Possible Steele misled FBI about whether he’d talked to press, but it looks like FBI understood the Isikoff article was based on Steele’s reporting and made this clear to the FISC, ever if they didn’t think Steele had provided it directly. pic.twitter.com/rklFN38g6j
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) July 21, 2018
Page 16 clearly shows that the FBI did inform the Judge that Steele was working for the opposition party.
It’s absolutely insane Nunes tried to claim FBI hid this information from the FISC. All this immediately follows the first mention of Steele (aka “Source 1”). pic.twitter.com/nrIDCm76B5
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) July 21, 2018
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