Isikoff "Stunned" That His Carter Page Article Was Used To Justify Spy Warrant

[anatta]

Investigative journalist Michael Isikoff said Friday that he was surprised to find out that an article he wrote about Carter Page prior to the election was used to obtain a spy warrant against the former Trump campaign adviser.

The revelation, which was made in a memo released by the House Intelligence Committee on Friday, “stuns me,” Isikoff said in an episode of his podcast, “Skullduggery.”

The four-page memo alleges that the DOJ and FBI submitted inaccurate and incomplete information in a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant against Page. The spy warrant was granted on Oct. 21, 2016.

One “essential” part of the application was the uncorroborated Steele dossier, according to the memo. And an article that Isikoff wrote for Yahoo! News on Sept. 23, 2016 that was based directly on the dossier was “cited extensively” in the application.

Isikoff was shocked, he said, because his very article was based on information that came from Christopher Steele, the former British spy who wrote the dossier.
He said it was “a bit beyond me” that the FBI would use his article in the FISA application.

“Obviously the information that I got from Christopher Steele was information the FBI already had,” he said, noting that Steele began sharing information from his dossier in July 2016.

Isikoff acknowledged the potential problem with the DOJ and FBI citing his article to support the FISA against Page.

“It’s self-referential,” he said of the article and its reliance on the dossier.

“My story is about the FBI’s own investigation,” he continued.

“So it seems a little odd that they would be citing the Yahoo! News story about the matter that they are investigating themselves based on the same material that had been separately presented to the FBI before I was ever briefed by Christopher Steele.”

The Republican spy memo makes a similar argument.

“This article does not corroborate the Steele dossier because it is derived from the information leaked by Steele himself to Yahoo! News,” it reads.

It also asserts that the Page FISA application “incorrectly assesses” that Steele was not a source for Isikoff.

The memo also says that corroboration of the dossier was in its “infancy” at the time the FISA application was submitted. An FBI unit that tried to verify Steele’s research had determined that it was only “minimally corroborated” at the time the FISA warrant was granted

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The dossier — and the Isikoff report — identified the two individuals as Igor Sechin and Igor Diveykin.
Page has denied ever meeting the men. He is also suing Yahoo! News for publishing the article suggesting he had.

Page denies other allegations made by Steele in the dossier. Steele claims in the document that Page worked with former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to collude directly with Russian operatives. Page says he has never met or talked to Manafort. The dossier also asserts that it was Page’s idea to provide hacked DNC emails to Wikileaks in order to push Bernie Sanders supporters away from the Democrats’ camp
http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/02/is...d-carter-page/

[anatta]

self serving hackneyed innuendo and false presentation of the Steele dossier contents- as well as it being only "minimally verified"

[Stretch]

This is all just stunning.....simply stunning, LOL. Let it roll.

[J Craft]

Seriously self serving deceit. I have heard that there will be privacy violation lawsuits.

[Darth Omar]

Referring back to Steele to bolster Steele’s Dossier lol.

Someone on the FISA court was asleep at the wheel.

[Русский агент]

Fun fact: Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson testified under oath that he was unaware of any attempts to leak the Steele dossier with media outlets.

Isikoff says Simpson was in the room when Steele leaked the document to him.

[anatta]

Referring back to Steele to bolster Steele’s Dossier lol.

Someone on the FISA court was asleep at the wheel.

it wasn't the FISC judge, it was a patently false misrepresentation of the dossier's validity, as well "circular reportage" that the Isikoff piece was supportive of the Steele dossier. Rosenstein signed at least one of the renewals

[Darth Omar]

it wasn't the FISC judge, it was a patently false misrepresentation of the dossier's validity, as well "circular reportage" that the Isikoff piece was supportive of the Steele dossier. Rosenstein signed at least one of the renewals

But shouldn’t the judge do a little research into the claim?

Or maybe the FISA court really is a rubber stamp operation.

[anatta]

Fun fact: Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson testified under oath that he was unaware of any attempts to leak the Steele dossier with media outlets.

Isikoff says Simpson was in the room when Steele leaked the document to him.

so many lies..
about the only thing that seems true is the Papadopolis bragging in a bar actually started this noise.

Why would the FBI start a full fledged counterintelligence investigation on bar room bragging?
That shows how easy it is to rile up the Russiaphobes

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In addition, Isikoff said, there were multiple sources quoted in the story about Page and the FBI's interest in him.

"Whether or not Carter Page met with the specific individuals referenced in the Steele dossier is still unknown to me, and I believe as far as I can tell, to the U.S. government," said Isikoff.

He added that Page had acknowledged in testimony that he had meetings in Moscow with a senior Russian government official and a others cited in the dossier, after denying at first any such meetings.

"Look, this is a highly selective memo clearly," Isikoff said of the GOP-backed document. "There is much more that went into that FISA application, we know, both from the Democrats and from our own sources in the U.S. government which we haven't yet seen."


https://www.newsmax.com/politics/nun.../03/id/841266/

[J Craft]

Fun fact: Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson testified under oath that he was unaware of any attempts to leak the Steele dossier with media outlets.

Isikoff says Simpson was in the room when Steele leaked the document to him.

Lying liars lie-

[J Craft]

In addition, Isikoff said, there were multiple sources quoted in the story about Page and the FBI's interest in him.

"Whether or not Carter Page met with the specific individuals referenced in the Steele dossier is still unknown to me, and I believe as far as I can tell, to the U.S. government," said Isikoff.

He added that Page had acknowledged in testimony that he had meetings in Moscow with a senior Russian government official and a others cited in the dossier, after denying at first any such meetings.

"Look, this is a highly selective memo clearly," Isikoff said of the GOP-backed document. "There is much more that went into that FISA application, we know, both from the Democrats and from our own sources in the U.S. government which we haven't yet seen."


https://www.newsmax.com/politics/nun.../03/id/841266/

Page has already admitted to the government he met with officials when he was preparing a paper on energy for the G20 Summit. I would think someone as interested in digging up news articles as you seem to be, you'd be willing to dig up ones that include the specifics of what Page actually did.

[Русский агент]

Lying liars lie-

There's a legal term for knowingly lying under oath.

If Isikoff is correct, Simpson perjured himself.

Isikoff says Simpson was there when Steele leaked the dossier to him.

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"The Papadopoulos information triggered the opening of an FBI counterintelligence investigation in late July 2016" - #5 Nunes memo

And considering Page had been under FBI surveillance since 2013, doesn't it seem that perhaps, just perhaps, information other than the dossier as Nunes would have us believe was employed in the FICA request. All we have otherwise to disprove such is the word of Congressman Nunes, which his track record has proven ain't that honest nor partisan