The FBI has declassified documents about the surveillance of ex-adviser to trump

The administration of the US president has published documents relating to the surveillance of the FBI over former adviser to Donald Trump Carter Page. The bureau conducted an investigation into its ties with Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign of the year, writes Russian service BBC.

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The FBI handed over documents to the media, which requested access to them in accordance with the law on freedom of information. Some of the information in published documents is hidden. Donald trump in "Twitter" welcomed the publication of the documents and accused the FBI and the Ministry of Justice of misleading the courts. He compared the investigation into Page with a witch hunt.

In 2017, Carter Page gave an interview to BuzzFeed, in which he said that Russian intelligence officials were trying to recruit him.

“The FBI believes that Page was the target of targeted recruitment by the Russian government,” the documents say. Surveillance of a member of the Trump campaign began in 2016 at the request of the US Department of Justice and was carried out under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

The published materials mention Page's trip to Russia in July 2016. According to the former MI-6 agent Christopher Steele, during this trip, Page met with a high-ranking representative of the Russian energy industry. The reference to Steele’s report on the Democratic Party was included in the request to open an investigation.

Page denies such a meeting and claims that he never made any political agreements with the Kremlin. For the entire time of the investigation he was not charged.

“The release of these documents is notable in itself, given that FISA wiretapping is typically one of the government's best-kept secrets. In the 40 years since the law, which regulates the interception of telephone calls and other communications in the United States in the search for spies and terrorists, such documents have never been published, unlike materials about surveillance in ordinary criminal cases,” notes The New York times.

Paige himself wrote in "Twitter“that the released documents reveal a “shocking violation of civil rights.”

Spy on the Page

In October 2016, the US Department of Justice asked the court for permission to monitor Carter Page. The main reasons are his relationship with Russian intelligence and Kremlin representatives.

According to Democrats, the FBI had reasons to spy on Trump's former adviser: from 2004 to 2007, he lived in Moscow and his main area of ​​activity was transactions with the Russian Gazprom.

Democrats claim that Page was under close scrutiny of both American and Russian intelligence services.

The Kremlin denies interference in US elections. The information that representatives of the election headquarters of Trump constantly communicated with representatives of the Russian intelligence and authorities, in the Kremlin also called unreliable.

Who is Carter Page

47-year-old Carter Page was on the campaign headquarters of Donald Trump from March to August 2016. Earlier, he graduated from the Naval Academy in Annapolis and served five years in the navy.

After resigning, in 2004-2007 he worked in the Moscow office of Merrill Lynch, then founded his own investment firm, Global Energy Capital. His business partner was, in particular, the deputy head of the financial department of Gazprom, Sergei Yatsenko.

In 2013, the FBI interrogated Page in connection with a conversation that took place at an energy symposium between him and a Russian citizen exposed as an intelligence officer. Paige said that he considered the interlocutor a businessman.

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