2 Carter Page FISA Warrants Lacked ‘Probable Cause,’ Declassified DOJ Assessment Finds

2 Carter Page FISA Warrants Lacked ‘Probable Cause,’ Declassified DOJ Assessment Finds
Carter Page in a May 29, 2019, file photograph. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Jack Phillips
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At least two of the FBI’s applications to surveil former Trump campaign aide Carter Page lacked probable cause, said a declassified summary of an assessment from the Department of Justice (DOJ).

“Thanks in large part to the work of the Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice, the Court has received notice of material misstatements and omissions in the applications filed by the government in the above-captioned dockets,” the letter from Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) stated. “DOJ assesses that with respect to the applications in Docket Numbers 17-375 and 17-679, ‘if not earlier, there was insufficient predication to establish probable cause to believe that [Carter] Page was acting as an agent of a foreign power.’”

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