Andy Borowitz | Nunes Says He Held Russia Hearings Alone in His Apartment and They Went Great

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Carter Page on Good Morning America. (photo: ABC News)

Carter Page Admits to Advising the Kremlin and Trump, but Doesn't Understand the FBI's Suspicion 
Aaron Rupar, ThinkProgress 
Rupar writes: "During an interview on Good Morning America on Tuesday, Carter Page admitted that he served as an adviser to the Kremlin before joining Donald Trump's campaign for president. But he doesn't think the FBI had good reason to view that as suspicious." 
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What this story omits is that from about 2013 to 2106 Page worked for the FBI as an informant and a witness in prosecutions of several Russians. The FBI knows him quite well and has since 2013. That is why he is surprised that the FBi wanted a surveillance warrant against him. 

Here is the press release from the DOJ on the case in which Page was undercover for the FBI, recording key conversations used in the prosecution. Page is not named -- after all, he is a secret undercover asset -- but the references are certainly to him. 

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/evgeny-buryakov-pleads-guilty-manhattan-federal-court-connection-conspiracy-work

In the FISA warrant, Page was a patsy. The FBi needed a FISA warrant to spy on Trump's campaign team, This requires someone who has connections with foreigners and is involved in a crime. Page fits that bill -- as the FBI undercover agent. The warrant allows the FBI to follow Page's contacts where ever they lead -- that is, to everyone in the Trump campaign and transition team. 

This article is simply poorly researched. It is more of the one-sided propaganda that we expect to see from democratic publications. I think it is important to consider all sources. The source I've cited is an official press release from the DOJ, southern district of NY. It ends:

" U.S. Attorney [Preet] Bharara praised the investigative work of the FBI’s Counterintellig ence Division."

This refers to Stzrok and his informant Carter Page.

Of further interest to this subject is the letter Carter Page wrote to Mark Warner to correct his false statements about Page following Page's senate testimony. He makes clear in this letter that he was the confidential informant in the Preet Bharra case and that the FBI exposed his identity and thus jeopardized his life. Here's the relevant heading:


Felony #1: Illegal leaking of my identity as “Male-1” in U.S.A. v. Evgeny Buryakov, Igor
Sporyshev, and Victor Podobnyy – On April 3, 2017, reporters at ABC News3 and BuzzFeed
News4 requested to meet in order to inform me that U.S. government operatives had unlawfully disclosed my identity as Male-1 in this 2015 case.


The full letter is here --

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2017/images/05/08/carterpage.pdf

If this link does not work. the CNN story is here --

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/08/politics/carter-page-russian-official/


I'm really tired of partisan bullshit in this matter. Let's see the original documents and the full testimony.

Andy Borowitz | Nunes Says He Held Russia Hearings Alone in His Apartment and They Went Great

FEMA MISMANGEMENT: 

Residents of San Isidro, Puerto Rico, waited for food and water in October. (photo: Erika P. Rodriguez/NYT)

Tiffany Brown & Tribute Contracting LLC - a contractor with a history of 

failures - failed to feed Puerto Ricans. 

Another FEMA Failure.

Contractor Awarded $156 Million to Provide 30 Million Meals to Puerto Rico, Only Delivered 50,000: Report 
Avery Anapol, The Hill 
Anapol writes: "A contractor who was awarded a massive contract to provide millions of meals to Puerto Ricans affected by Hurricane Maria drastically underdelivered, according to a New York Times investigation." 
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