2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/CATER PAGE/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA: “Carter Page, who served as a foreign-policy adviser to Donald Trump’s campaign, was known to U.S. counterintelligence officials for years before he became a prominent figure in a dossier of unverified research about the future president’s ties to Russia.
The White House is expected to release as early as this week a memo detailing what Republicans allege were surveillance abuses during the 2016 campaign. Republicans say the memo, written by the GOP staff on the House Intelligence Committee, shows that prosecutors used information gleaned from an ex-British spy—who was paid by a research firm hired by Democratic opponents of Mr. Trump—in their application for a secret court order to monitor Mr. Page. Mr. Page hasn’t been accused of wrongdoing.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday urged the White House not to release the memo, citing “grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy.” Democrats have also said the document is misleading and cherry-picked… The FBI said the memo contains significant omissions about the surveillance decisions made during the time period in question.”
–Rebecca Ballhaus and Byron Tau, “Former Trump Aide Carter Page Was on U.S. Counterintelligence Radar Before Russia Dossier,” The Wall Street Journal online, Feb. 1, 2018 10:03am