Carter Page, one-time adviser of Donald Trump, addresses the audience during a presentation in Moscow, Russia, in December. Photo by Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters
Eli Lake, Bloomberg: We Should Care About What Happened to Carter Page
The former Trump aide's reputation has been ruined -- not by a conviction, not by any charges, but by a warrant that was supposed to be secret.
A lot of Americans watching the volleys of memos and the Trump-Russia probe must be asking: Who the heck is Carter Page?
You see the former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser in news footage -- smiling when he shouldn't. His name appears in the infamous dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele on behalf of the Democratic Party and the Hillary Clinton campaign. A secret warrant to surveil Page, based in part on that dossier, is the subject of the Republican House Intelligence Committee memo declassified last week.
News profiles of Page portray him as an incautious mediocrity, choosing to appear before Congressional investigative committees without a lawyer. As the New York Times Magazine reported in December, he runs a small investment firm based in a temporary windowless office shared with the National Shingles Foundation.
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WNU Editor: I cannot imagine how it must feel to be placed in such a situation. There are no charges. No court date. Nothing but a warrant from the FBI that is suppose to be secret. You cannot even defend yourself .... and the sad part is that this has all been done deliberately. I have seen partisan hit jobs in politics before .... but this one takes the cake.
Update: Analysis: Secret warrants used by Bureau to spy on Carter Page did not catch Russians (Washington Free Beacon).
