‘A Brief Hello’ With A ‘Senior’ Russian: Carter Page The Masochistic ‘Genius’
Maybe Carter Page is brilliant. Or maybe Carter Page is a masochist. Or maybe Carter Page is a complete idiot.
As far as I can tell, those are the only three plausible explanations for how the former Trump campaign adviser (who, you're reminded, worked in Merrill Lynch’s Moscow office from 2004 to 2007) is behaving in the face of an increasingly aggressive probe into the Trump campaign's ties to the Kremlin.
I suppose it's possible that Page's penchant for lying on national television and
I’d be more willing to bet that he’s just an idiot. Either that or it’s a call for help for the FBI to take him in.
oh of course.
A read of the Wikipedia* entry on Cater Page immediately discloses that he’s in a competition with Trump as to who loves Putin more!! For decades, he’s been a lover of all things Russia, Putin and a Russian apologist. This will tell you all you need to know:
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“In September 2016, U.S. intelligence officials investigated alleged contacts between Page and Russian officials subject to U.S. sanctions, including Igor Sechin.[4] Page rejected the accusations and stepped down from his role in the Trump campaign.[1][27]
“Shortly afterwards the Federal Bureau of Investigation successfully obtained a warrant from the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to surveil Page’s communications.[28] To issue the warrant, a federal judge concluded there was probable cause to believe the FBI’s declarations that Page was a foreign agent knowingly engaging in clandestine intelligence for the Russian government. Page was the only American who was directly targeted with a FISA warrant in 2016 as part of the Russia probe. The 90-day warrant was repeatedly renewed.[29]
“In January 2017, Page’s name appeared repeatedly in a leaked Donald Trump—Russia dossier containing contract intelligence from former British Intelligence operative Christopher Steele. The dossier contained unsubstantiated allegations of close interactions between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.[30][31][32][33] In January 2017, Page was under investigation by the FBI, CIA, NSA, ODNI, and FinCEN. He has denied wrongdoing.[34]”
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In the wiki entry, Eurasia Group president Ian Bremmer recalled on his Twitter feed that Carter Page, who once worked at Eurasia, had a strong pro-Russian stance, was “not a good fit” for the firm, and that Page was its “most wackadoodle” alumnus.
My guess is Page’s decision to blabber on national media was motivated by his quest to be noticed by his hero, Vladimir Putin, after calculating that, as long he tells the truth (as he sees) to the FBI, congressional committees and its staff he’s in no legal jeopardy. Why? The way he describes it all he did was meet with Russians, which is something he’s been doing for years before Trump’s campaign and those meetings had nothing to do with interfering with the election. Of course, if his emails, mail, texts or phone calls demonstrate to the contrary, he’ll be watching Vladimir on CNN International on the same TV at the expense of the Federal Bureau of Prisons for years.
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_Page
I read that DOSSIER so long ago and I even made a short list of notes, references to page numbers etc on certain events and mention of people’s names. I lost count of how many times I saw Carter Page’s name. He was tied into many important events! So, I read all 35 pages again this morning with my coffee.
Amazing how many other things I read that are more important now that we have heard so much about the Russian investigation – so I encourage you to read it again too. This copy has highlighted areas but I did not mark them – I do not know who marked it – but do not only read those highlighted areas – tons of interesting info is not highlighted. Funny, at this moment, my TV is on and trump just commented he was not involved in any collusion with Russia. hahahaha timing is incredible!
BTW, one person I have not heard mentioned in all the news is trump’s good friend and lawyer, Michael Cohen. He is discussed a bunch in this dossier in terms that he was cooperative and his connection could be easily concealed since he is married to a woman of Russian descent. From my notes, pg 18-19,28-29, 30-35. I would assume with his relationship as long time lawyer for trump, he is pretty much untouchable, but I don’t know how that would hold up if for instance there was a case of treason. And of course we have no way of knowing at this time how truthful and reliable this dossier is.
There are certainly many mentions of Manafort’s name and some with Michael Flynn’s as well. I had a new laugh reading how a minion of Putin’s was convinced “kick-backs” (word from dossier) paid to Manafort from Russia were well hidden and could not be traced — Putin was not convinced that would be true and I believe he ‘replaced’ that minion with another but the “kick-backs” had already been paid.
Oh, and for those that just wanna know about the salacious sex stuff, see page 27.
Pasted here from Google:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html
This appears to be a document that originated prior to the US general election of 2016. It also appears to be a document that could have been created by any number of skilled screen or fiction writers – regardless of those by/for whom it is purported to have been written.
I am not saying it is fake or inaccurate, in fact I don’t doubt it could all be true. However, there is a huge hole in the authenticity of this document and that is its very existence. Presumably, this document was in the possession of someone associated with the DNC ahead of the general election, including members of the Clinton campaign. We also know that the “shoe-in” nature of Clinton’s lead was decaying in the days and even weeks ahead of the election and there were some apparently damaging bombshells related to Clinton that came up just ahead of the election. We also know that during the campaign Trump’s anti-Clinton rhetoric and name calling were disgusting and outrageous.
Under those circumstances, given what was at stake, and given the voracious ambition of Clinton, someone needs to explain why in the world this document was not thrown on the table and exposed to the world by those who controlled it. If that cannot be answered, the authenticity of the document is questionable at least.
This, of course, leads to the final issue. If anyone in a responsible position within the DNC had possession of this document and if they believed it to be authentic, then they are guilty of negligence, at least, for not having released it. Anyone with an ounce of sense knew at the time that a Trump presidency would be damaging and possibly destructive. To withhold this information, if deemed authentic, from the voters ahead of the election constituted a moral crime that is on par with whatever are Trump’s actual crimes.
Here’s WAPO”s Phil Bump on the dossier. What do you think, of his view?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/10/25/what-the-trump-dossier-says-and-what-it-doesnt/?utm_term=.dd052a0591f3
It was said that the FBI had information about the dossier perhaps as early as July/August 2016, maybe even May/June 2016. Additionally, our government knew Mr. Steele and trusted him as you will read in the article below, they referred to him as “credible”, “their highest praise.” Only the FBI can answer Frank’s question about why someone did not expose it sooner than when we all heard about it along with the rest of the world in January 2017. To be honest, I think Mueller is in a position to investigate even better.
This article lends some support to the validity of the data. It may not be possible to prove certain dossier entries but common sense reigns when a large and important amount of data is proven. There are facts contained in the dossier that could not have been known in January 2017, to support a theory that this dossier was later compiled to implicate trump. You know, if trump even confessed to guilt, there would still be people who refuse to accept it!!
In addition to the WaPo article Marty has pasted and this BBC article, I will guarantee you that Mueller’s investigation is way ahead and knows exactly what is true and is in the process of getting their ducks in a row. Quack. Quack.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39435786
This is a lengthy article, please read until you cannot scroll any further.
Another thing to consider when thinking over the validity of the dossier is perhaps any attempts to contort the news on the how the dossier originated. RNC and Fox try very hard to cover up the truth — and have then taken giant leaps to defame Clinton.
http://start.att.net/player/category/news/article/morning_joe-morning_joe:what_rnc_version_of_trump_dossier_story_leaves_out-5min