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   Ontheleftcoast

   @Ontheleftcoast

   6:15 PM EST ⋅ Feb 7, 2018

   What people are saying on this is coming so fast that Steve Hayward and John Yoo seem to have missed a couple of possibly pertinent details, which raise questions it would have been great to hear the answers on:

   • It looks like Page was an undercover employee of the FBI on an Russian espionage case that wrapped up in late March/early April 2016, and not only was he being recorded, he was planting bugs on the Russians. If there was already a warrant connected with the Buryakov case to monitor Page, would that have ended with the case?
   • In late March, Page, recommended to the Trump campaign by Ed Cox, moves on to the campaign.
   • Did Page’s employment as an undercover informant for the FBI end with the guilty plea in the Buryakov case, or continue as he moved to the Trump campaign?
   • If I understand correctly, New York is a one party consent state, so presumably Page could legally have recorded his direct conversations with anyone in the Trump campaign.
   • In any case, in October 2016, Page was described as the agent of a foreign power in a “non Title VII” (the words of the memo) FISC application to monitor him.
   • Wouldn’t that warrant and the subsequent renewals take the Title I expanded surveillance into Fall 2017?
   • It’s been said the the 10/16 warrant and extensions were each signed by a different judge. Is that usual? IIUC here are only three FISC judges in the DC circuit.

   Thank you

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   Podkayne of Israel

   @PodkayneofIsrael

   1:09 AM EST ⋅ Feb 8, 2018

   Well, that was delicious. I must, however, protest your appropriation of my latest favorite meme, “Milk the soft power dividend”. You cannot have both that and the Kinks “Victoria”; leave some for the rest of us.