NBC’s Dilanian: ‘It Would Not Have Been Very Difficult for the FBI to Convince a Judge’ Carter Page Was an Agent of Russia

‘The first thing to know is that Carter Page, the former Trump campaign adviser, was on the FBI radar as far back as 2013’

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DILANIAN: "That’s right, Andrea. The first thing to know is that Carter Page, the former Trump campaign adviser, was on the FBI radar as far back as 2013, when he figured in a separate espionage case and he was actually targeted for recruitment by Russian intelligence officers. He has acknowledged that. So the FBI had reason to be looking at him. And then we know that there was other reporting in addition to the Christopher Steele dossier about Trump campaign contacts with Russians that was turned over to the CIA from foreign governments. The CIA brought it to the attention of the FBI. We don’t know because we haven’t seen the memo exactly what went into the application to surveil Carter Page, but many legal experts who have looked at the whole situation say it would not have been very difficult for the FBI to convince a judge that there was probable cause to believe that Carter Page was acting as an agent of a foreign power."

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