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PP, this expose makes Page

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 18:36:24 +0000

PP, this expose makes Page appear to be a Putin stooge , which is its intent Unfortunately for the authors their smear attempt on Page has left egg on their faces.They just like the swamp rats at the FBI are required by their warped ethics to edit out little details to advance their sleazy agendas.

Carter Page, Patriot, Naval Academy graduate was also an active Operative for the CIA during this Spy vs Spy episode. He was reporting to his Company handler after every mission where he was tasked with interacting with Russians.

The stooges at the FBI may not have known this factoid initially but they did later, they knew what was required to get a FISA warrant to spy on him. First that the subject is operating as an agent for a foreign country which is not a crime. And second that they must show verified evidence that the subject violated a US law while operating as a FA.This second requirement is why their first attempt to spy on Papadoc was permanently rejected by their own lawyers and the one on Page was only approved when they got their sweaty hands on the Simpson/Steel dossier which they knew was a stinking pile of Opporesearch BS. All of this is revealed in the IG Report along with the lies, doctored document and other subterfuge they used to frame Page and try to frame Trump.

When Barr and Durham are done with these rats Page should sue them for every dime they have or ever will have.

Page’s apparent Russian

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 08:03:29 +0000

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Page’s apparent Russian sympathies were evident from much earlier. In 1998 Page spent three months working for the Eurasia Group, a strategy consulting firm. Its founder, Ian Bremmer, later described Page as his “most wackadoodle alumnus.” Page’s vehemently pro-Kremlin views meant that “he wasn’t a good fit,” Bremmer said.

In 2004 Page moved to Moscow, where he became an energy consultant with Merrill Lynch. As Page tells it, it was while working as an investment banker that he struck up a relationship with Gazprom. He advised Gazprom on transactions, including a deal to buy a stake in an oil and gas eld near Sakhalin, the desolate island on Russia’s Pacific coast. He bought Gazprom shares.

According to Politico, few people in Moscow’s foreign business community knew of him. Those who did were underwhelmed. “He wasn’t great and he wasn’t terrible,” his former boss, Sergei Aleksashenko, said, adding that Page was “without any special talents or accomplishments,” “in no way exceptional,” and “a gray spot.”

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Three years later, Page returned to New York and to his new office next to Trump Tower. From there he set up a private equity business, Global Energy Capital LLC. His partner was Russian—a wealthy former Gazprom manager called Sergei Yatsenko. Did Yatsenko know Podobnyy and Sporyshev? Or indeed other members of Russia’s underground espionage community?

In the worsening dispute between Putin and the Obama administration, Page sided with Moscow. He was against US sanctions imposed by Obama on Russia in the wake of Crimea. In a blog post for Global Policy, an online journal, he wrote that Putin wasn’t to blame for the 2014 Ukraine conflict. The White House’s superior “smack-down” approach had “started the crisis in the first place,” he wrote.

Page’s rampant pro-Moscow views were at odds with the US State Department under Clinton and with almost all American scholars of Russia. After all, it was Putin who had smuggled tanks across the border into eastern Ukraine. Not that Page’s opinions counted for much. Global Policy had a small circulation. It was edited out of Durham University in the north of England.

His relationship with the journal fizzled out when he wrote an opinion piece lavishly praising a pro-Russian candidate ahead of the U.S. presidential election—Trump.

And then something odd happened.

In March 2016 candidate Trump met with the Washington Post’s editorial board. At this point it seemed likely that Trump would clinch the Republican nomination. Foreign affairs came up. Who were the candidate’s foreign policy advisers? Trump read five names. The second was “Carter Page, PhD.” Given Trump’s obvious lack of experience of world affairs, this was a pivotal job.

One former Eurasia Group colleague said he was stunned when he discovered Page had mysteriously become one of Trump’s foreign policy advisers. “I nearly dropped my coffee,” he told me. The colleague added: “We had wanted people who could engage in critical analysis of what’s going on. This is a guy who has no critical insight into the situation. He wasn’t a smart person.”

Page’s real qualification for the role, it appeared, had little to do with his restless CV. What appeared to recommend him to Trump was his boundless enthusiasm for Putin and his corresponding loathing of Obama and Clinton. Page’s view of the world was not unlike the Kremlin’s. Boiled down: the United States’ attempts to spread democracy had brought chaos and disaster.

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Podobnyy and Sporyshev approached their duties with a certain cynicism laced with boredom and a shot of homesickness, the FBI tapes revealed. Page, by contrast, was the rarest of things: an American who apparently believed that Putin was wise and virtuous and kind.

By this point, the Russian spies had been spirited out of the United States. In 2015 their ring was broken up. As accredited diplomats, they were entitled to fly home. Buryakov was less fortunate. At the time that Page joined Trump’s campaign, Buryakov pleaded guilty to acting as an unregistered foreign agent. He got two and a half years in a US jail.

In July 2016 Page went back to Russia, in a trip approved by the Trump campaign. There was keen interest. Page was someone who might give sharper definition to the candidate’s views on future US–Russian relations. Moscow sources suggest that certain people in the Russian government arranged Page’s visit. “We were told: ‘Can you bring this guy over?’” one source said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

One of Russia’s top private universities, the New Economics School, invited Page to give a public lecture. This was no ordinary event but the prestigious commencement address to its class of graduating students. The venue was Moscow’s World Trade Center

Russia’s media hailed Page as a “celebrated American economist.” This, despite the fact that Page’s lecture was distinctly strange—a content-free ramble verging on the bizarre. Page, it seemed, was criticizing U.-.S-led attempts at “regime change” in the former Soviet world. Nobody could be sure. His audience included students and local Trump fans, some of whom were visibly nodding off by the end.

Shaun Walker, the Guardian’s Russia correspondent, had attended an event given by Page the previous evening. He described Page’s PowerPoint presentation as “really weird.” “It looked as if it had been done for a Kazakhstan gas conference,” Walker said. “He was talking about the United States’ attempts to spread democracy, and how disgraceful they were.”

Page was Trump’s leading Russia expert. And yet in the question-and-answer session it emerged that Page couldn’t really understand or speak Russian. Those seeking answers on Trump’s view of sanctions were disappointed. “I’m not here at all talking about my work outside of my academic endeavor,” Page said. At the end, Walker said, Page was “spirited off.”

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/02/03/carter-page-nunes-mem...

You;re right about something

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 05:34:26 +0000

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You;re right about something new Moat we are seeing the rule of law reinstituted over the rule of men.

There was a little firecracker in the IG report not reported by most news that stated George Papadoc and Carter Page were being spied on 'before and after' they joined the Trump campaign in March '16. I'm sure Barr and Durham didn't miss this gem and probably already knew it.

Papadoc was working for Ben Carson's campaign before he joined Trump so how many other campaigns were being surveilled. This shows that Obama's Spygate was organized and operating long before Trump was targeted.

This is why other rule of men types like Holder are crawling from under their rocks to snap at the long arm of the lawmen Barr and Durham.

THIS https://t.co/IpGjgNk9CP

artappraiser — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 04:55:19 +0000

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THIS https://t.co/IpGjgNk9CP
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) December 12, 2019

Holder unloading on Barr: not

artappraiser — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 04:47:07 +0000

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Holder unloading on Barr: not too surprising. The words of warning for Durham are notable, though
... https://t.co/yWTEc8cMk1
— Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein) December 12, 2019

Eric Holder pushes too:

artappraiser — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 04:45:34 +0000

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Eric Holder pushes too:

“Even more troubling — and telling — was a later (and little-noticed) section of his remarks, in which Barr made the outlandish suggestion that Congress cannot entrust anyone but the president himself to execute the law.” https://t.co/9k7X4vV0lb
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) December 12, 2019

If there is a silver lining

moat — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 01:20:17 +0000

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If there is a silver lining behind what Barr is doing, it is the way he speaks like a pundit instead of someone who knows what is going on. He does not refer to any evidence for his judgments.

Perhaps his comments throw a wrench into the works but the lack of an alternative narrative that can stand the light of day is very odd. Back in the day, more effort was put into presenting an alternative narrative when lies were substantiated.

This team is doing something new.

The travesty called Pete

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 19:55:08 +0000

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The travesty called Pete Williams

https://www.emptywheel.net/2019/12/11/american-democracy-needs-better-re...