Eli Lake, Columnist

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.

February 9, 2018 at 10:00 AM UTC

By Eli Lake

Eli Lake is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering national security and foreign policy. He was the senior national security correspondent for the Daily Beast and covered national security and intelligence for the Washington Times, the New York Sun and UPI.

He had a right to due process.
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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.