FISA Overseer Had ‘Concerns’ About Spying Warrant on Trump Campaign Aide, FBI Texts Indicate

FISA Overseer Had ‘Concerns’ About Spying Warrant on Trump Campaign Aide, FBI Texts Indicate
National Security Division Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart Evans in Washington on Sept. 14, 2016. Zach Gibson/AFP/Getty Images
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A senior Justice Department official who was in charge of the FISA warrants issued in 2016 that allowed spying on Americans had concerns about the warrant on former Trump campaign aide Carter Page, according to text messages between then-high ranking FBI officials obtained by Fox News.

Apparently, because of those concerns, the FBI provided the Justice Department’s (DOJ) Office of Intelligence, which manages the FISA warrants, with a “robust explanation” regarding “any possible bias” of a confidential human source used in the warrant. The source for the core claims in the warrant was Christopher Steele, a former British spy who authored the infamous Steele dossier.

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