Tuesday, February 6, 2018

In March 2016 Carter Page Was an FBI Employee – In October 2016 FBI Told FISA Court He’s a Spy

Submitted by: Terry Payne

URL:
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-fbi-employee-in-october-2016-fbi-told-fisa-court-hes-a-spy/


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In March 2016 Carter Page Was an FBI Employee – In October 2016 FBI Told FISA
Court He’s a Spy…
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Posted on February 5, 2018
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n-fbi-employee-in-october-2016-fbi-told-fisa-court-hes-a-spy/
>  by sundance
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In 2013 Carter Page was working as an “under-cover employee” (UCE) of the FBI,
helping them to build a case against “Evgeny Buryakov”.  In March 2016 Carter
Page remained their informant pre-trial leading to a pleading of guilty from
Buryakov.
[Note – Pay close attention to dates, names in descriptions amid all citations]
Sources:  ♦ In 2013 the U.S. Department of Justice, Southern District of New
York, announced an indictment against a Russian Operative Evgeny Buryakov.  LINK
HERE
<https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/evgeny-buryakov-pleads-guilty-manhattan-fe
deral-court-connection-conspiracy-work
> In March of 2016 Buryakov pleaded
GUILTY:


Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New
York, and John P. Carlin, Assistant Attorney General for National Security,
announced that EVGENY BURYAKOV, a/k/a “Zhenya,” pled guilty today to conspiring
to act in the United States as an agent of the Russian Federation, without
providing prior notice to the Attorney General.

[…]  The FBI obtained the recordings after Sporyshev attempted to recruit an
FBI undercover employee (“UCE-1”), who was posing as an analyst from a New
York-based energy company. In response to requests from Sporyshev, UCE-1
provided Sporyshev with binders containing purported industry analysis written
by UCE-1 and supporting documentation relating to UCE-1’s reports, as well as
covertly placed recording devices.(more
<https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/evgeny-buryakov-pleads-guilty-manhattan-fe
deral-court-connection-conspiracy-work
> )
♦ In 2016 Reuters published an article, based on the ongoing court case, going
into detail about court records and how the FBI built their case.  Reuters also
describes the FBI UCE-1 (Under-Cover Employee) with strong detail.  LINK HERE
<https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-usa-espionage/fbi-penetrated-new-york
-based-russian-spy-ring-using-hidden-recorders-idUSKCN0WB2NM
>
NEW YORK (Reuters)
<https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-usa-espionage/fbi-penetrated-new-york
-based-russian-spy-ring-using-hidden-recorders-idUSKCN0WB2NM
>  – The FBI
eavesdropped on meetings involving Russian intelligence personnel in New York
City, including a suspected spy posing as a trade representative, by hiding
recorders in binders containing supposedly confidential information about the
energy sector, U.S. prosecutors said.
The hours of covert recordings from 2013 were disclosed in papers filed in
Manhattan federal court on Tuesday in the case of Evgeny Buryakov, a Russian
citizen who U.S. prosecutors say posed as a banker while participating in a Cold
War-style spy ring.
[…] According to prosecutors, in April 2012, Sporyshev met an undercover FBI
employee posing as an analyst at a New York energy firm at an oil and gas
industry conference.
Over the next two years, they met to discuss the industry and other economic
and political issues, prosecutors said, with Sporyshev providing gifts and cash
for information.
In 2013, the FBI employee began providing Sporyshev with the binders containing
purported industry analysis he wrote, supporting documents, and “covertly placed
recording devices,” prosecutors wrote.  (more
<https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-usa-espionage/fbi-penetrated-new-york
-based-russian-spy-ring-using-hidden-recorders-idUSKCN0WB2NM
> )
♦ In April 2017, writing a story about Carter Page (trying to enhance/affirm
the Russian narrative), the New York Times outlined Page’s connections to the
Trump campaign.  However, New York Times also references Page’s prior connection
to the Buryakov case. If you ignore the narrative, you discover the UCE1
description is Carter Page.  READ [Notice how the story is shaped] LINK HERE:
<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/us/politics/carter-page-trump-russia.html>
Russian intelligence operatives tried in 2013 to recruit an American
businessman and eventual foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign who is now
part of the F.B.I. investigation into Russia’s interference into the American
election, according to federal court documents and a statement issued by the
businessman.
The businessman, Carter Page
<https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/08/world/europe/carter-page-donald-trump-moscow
-russia.html
> , met with one of three Russianswho were eventually charged with
being undeclared officers with Russia’s foreign intelligence service, known as
the S.V.R.
The F.B.I. interviewed Mr. Page in 2013 as part of an investigation into the
spy ring, but decided that he had not known the man was a spy, and the bureau
never accused Mr. Page of wrongdoing.
The court documents say that Mr. Page, who founded an investment company in New
York called Global Energy Capital, provided documents about the energy business
to one of the Russians. […] To record their conversations, the F.B.I. inserted a
listening device into binders that were passed to the Russian intelligence
operatives during an energy conference, according to a former United States
intelligence official.  (more)
<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/us/politics/carter-page-trump-russia.html>
When you read The Times article (2017), against the backdrop of the Reuters
article (2016), and the DOJ release (2016) it is transparently clear that Carter
Page was the Under-Cover Employee (UCE1) of the FBI in the 2013 case.
Carter Page was working for the FBI.  Page was the “analyst from a New
York-based energy company” who “began providing Sporyshev with the binders“.
However, in 2017 the New York Times, using information from “a former
intelligence official“, conflates the FBI/Page Relationship.  Heck, the NY Times
tries to entirely change the relationship between Carter Page and the FBI.
Why?
Likely because on October 21st 2016 the FBI claimed to a FISA Court; to gain a
“Title I” surveillance warrant; that Carter Page was working on behalf of a
foreign government.


(Full Memo pdf) <https://www.scribd.com/document/370603711/FISA-Memo-1>

Carter Page was an FBI Under-Cover Employee in 2013
<https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/evgeny-buryakov-pleads-guilty-manhattan-fe
deral-court-connection-conspiracy-work
> , and remained the primary FBI witness
through May of 2016
<https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-usa-espionage/fbi-penetrated-new-york
-based-russian-spy-ring-using-hidden-recorders-idUSKCN0WB2NM
>  throughout the
case.
If Carter Page was working as a UCE (FBI undercover employee), responsible for
the bust of a high level Russian agent in 2013 -and remained a UCE- throughout
the court caseUP TO May of 2016
<https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-usa-espionage/fbi-penetrated-new-york
-based-russian-spy-ring-using-hidden-recorders-idUSKCN0WB2NM
> , how is it
possible that on October 21st 2016 Carter Page is put under a FISA Title 1
surveillance warrant as an alleged Russian agent?

Conclusion:  He wasn’t.  The DOJ National Security Division and the FBI
Counterintelligence Division, knew he wasn’t.  The DOJ-NSD and FBI  flat-out
LIED.
Now, go back to the March 2016 DOJ Press Release
<https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/evgeny-buryakov-pleads-guilty-manhattan-fe
deral-court-connection-conspiracy-work
>  of the guilty pleading for Evgeny
Buryakov, announced from the New York office:
…”Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New
York, and John P. Carlin, Assistant Attorney General for National Security,
announced”…

Because “FISA Title I” surveillance authority against a U.S. citizen is so
serious
<https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/02/04/exceptional-work-by-sharyl-attk
isson-did-fbi-violate-woods-procedures/
>  (the U.S. government is essentially
calling the target a spy), only a few people are authorized to even apply for
such surveillance warrants.  One of the four people authorized
<http://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/372233-nunes-memo-raises-question-did-fbi-v
iolate-woods-procedures
>  to make such a filing is the Asst. Attorney General
who is head of the National Security Division of the DOJ.  That person is John P
Carlin.

The same John P Carlin who, together with the FBI counterintelligence unit,
conscripted  Carter Page as an FBI Under-Cover Employee, gains a guilty plea,
then turns around and six months later accuses Page of being a Russian Spy.
Why?  Likely because the DOJ-NSD and FBI CoIntel needed to find a legal way to
spy on the Trump campaign. The 2016 FISA Title 1 surveillance of former FBI
employee Carter Page became that legal way. [“The Insurance Policy”]
In October of 2016, at approximately the same time the DOJ was making the FISA
Court filing against Page, and successfully gaining the surveillance warrant,
Asst. Attorney General  John P Carlin resigns as head of the DOJ-NSD.    –SEE
HERE
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/head-of-justice-departme
nts-national-security-division-to-step-down/2016/09/27/59cb95c4-84e6-11e6-ac72-a
29979381495_story.html?utm_term=.d0f31600c908
> –  Did Carlin resign in protest?
or, did Carlin resign knowing he too had served a larger purpose?


The entire FISA Title I surveillance authority over Carter Page was cover, most
likely retroactive cover, for the DOJ and FBI conducting surveillance on the
Trump campaign.
The DOJ-National Security Division and FBI Counterintelligence Unit didn’t care
about Page because to them he was a useful tool.  It wasn’t Page they needed,
per se’, they just needed someone, anyone, who had contact with the Trump
campaign that they could apply the label “foreign agent” upon.  The DOJ/FBI just
needed someone they could position to gain the FISA “Title I” surveillance
approval that would retroactively make all prior campaign surveillance legal.
Who Carter Page was simply checked the right boxes.
Page wasn’t a “plant”, or a “participant”, he was a useful body upon which they
could attach a label to justify their surveillance and monitoring.  Nothing
more.
Clear enough?
Carter Page testified to the House Intelligence Committee
<https://t.co/32po93MiYC>  that DOJ-FBI officials leaked his identity, his role
in the Buryakov case, to the media.  This is secondary and direct confirmation
from Page himself that he was indeed the FBI UCE-1


(Source Link – Page. #19 House Intelligence Testimony pdf
<https://t.co/32po93MiYC> )
 <https://twitter.com/TheLastRefuge2/status/960694960520683521>

 <https://twitter.com/TheLastRefuge2>  TheLastRefuge@TheLastRefuge2

More Confirmation. Pg.19 of Carter Page testimony:
https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/carter_page_hpsci_hearing_transcrip
t_nov_2_2017.pdf
 … <https://t.co/32po93MiYC>  Page acknowledges he was outed by
BuzzFeed as “Male-1” in a court filing for the Buryakov case. That's
supplemental confirmation Page was UCE1 [FBI Under-Cover Employee 1]
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/02/05/in-march-2016-carter-page-was-an
-fbi-employee-in-october-2016-fbi-told-fisa-court-hes-a-spy/
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<https://t.co/ay141hjlmm>
9:01 PM - Feb 5, 2018
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In March 2016 Carter Page Was an FBI Employee – In October 2016 FBI Told FISA
Court He’s a Spy…
In 2013 Carter Page was working as and under-cover employee (UCE) of the FBI
helping them to build a case against “Evgeny Buryakov”.  [Note – Pay attention
to the names in the fol…
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