FBI Testimonies on Carter Page FISA Reveal Broken Oversight Process

Then-acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill on May 11, 2017. Testimonies by several FBI officials highlight McCabe's unusual role in the Carter Page FISA. Alex Wong/Getty Images

Carter Page, a U.S. citizen who was a foreign policy adviser to the Trump presidential campaign in early 2016, was surveilled under Title I of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

The FBI used the so-called Steele dossier—written by former MI6 agent Christopher Steele and paid for by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee—to portray Page as “an agent of a foreign power,” specifically Russia, to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC).