FBI Restricts Evidence Collected From Carter Page Surveillance
- Bureau holds back information from its Trump campaign probe
- The move follows a finding of errors in surveillance requests
Carter Page participates in a discussion on 'politicization of DOJ and the intelligence community in their efforts to undermine the president' hosted by Judicial Watch at the One America News studios on Capitol Hill on May 29, 2019.
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The FBI has decided to restrict all information collected from surveillance of former Trump campaign aide Carter Page in 2016 and 2017 after serious mistakes were uncovered in court applications for the wiretaps, according to a new court filing.
Two of four court applications to conduct surveillance on Page weren’t valid because they didn’t have sufficient evidence to establish probable cause to believe he was acting as an agent of a foreign power, U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg wrote in an order released Thursday.