I think we need to talk about your drinking, it's becoming a problem.
I mean are you even reading my posts before you respond, if you want to debate with someone you should debate the things that person says.
To recap, I never said Crossfire Hurricane started because of Page (though he was someone the FBI had been concerned about going back to 2013), and I never said that Halper was dispatched to interview Page because of George P’s drunk talk with the Aussie.
And you keep saying that Page “assisted” the FBI, when in fact he is somebody they interviewed out of concern. And Yes he wasn’t indicted with the Russians spies in 2015, but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t a continuing concern, and stop acting like the FBI continuing to investigate him, out of concern that Russia could be trying to manipulate him in his new role as an advisor to Trump in 2016, is somehow unrelated to exactly what the FBI has tapes of the Russians talking about him in 2013.
In terms of Halper reaching out to Page because of the FBI's continuing concerns about Page, even beyond the 2013 Russian intel stuff, Page’s weirdness toward Russia had long been a concern (e.g., Ian Bremmer, the president of the Eurasia Group, a risk-consulting firm where Page had previously worked, said that Page had become a pro-Kremlin “wackadoodle.”
"The account of Page’s abrupt departure from the Eurasia Group suggests that concerns about Page and questions about his links to
Russia were known in some professional circles for nearly two decades, and long before Page joined Trump’s successful presidential campaign."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...pro-kremlin-views-1998-consulting-russia-ties
But back to 2016, it has been long reported that JD Gordon, the director of the Trump campaign's National Security Advisory Committee, had concerns about Page, first he thought it was weird that Page (who sent an email to Gordon about this in May), was suggesting that Trump visit Russia "to raise the temperature a little bit”, and then in a June meeting of Washington foreign policy experts with the Indian Prime Minister, Page weirded people out by praising Putin as stronger and more reliable than Obama.
And then Gordon also tried his damnedest to stop Page from the "really dumb idea" of Page going to Moscow for a speaking engagement at the prestigious New Economic School with ties to the Kremlin, where Arkady Dvorkovich, Russia's deputy prime minister, was chairman of the board. Weird place for someone who Russia intel thought was an “idiot” to speak and meet with “mostly scholars”, no?
So Page went around Gordon to Lewandowski, and Corey said okay, but that
Page couldn’t go as a representative of the campaign, but that he had to go in his private capacity. It was this trip to Moscow that caught the attention of the FBI. And add to that what Gordon had said about Page’s grandiose ideas of his role in Trump's campaign, that "he wanted to be US Ambassador to Moscow," someone whose “enthusiasm works” for Russian intel and who is an “idiot” who “wants to earn a lot of money.”
So as I said earlier,
on July 7, 2016, Page traveled to Moscow and delivered a lecture at the New Economic School where he criticized “Washington and other Western capitals” in a speech that Russia loved and Alexander Dugin, a Kremlin connected political scientist who had urged Russia to “kill, kill, kill” Ukranians, heavily promoted Page’s lecture. He also met with Dvorkovich and sent the Trump campaign a memo noting “Dvorkovich expressed a strong support for Mr. Trump”. He also emailed Gordon that he had gained "incredible insights and outreach ... from a few Russian legislators and senior members of the presidential administration here."
Everything I am saying is generally known information, I am referencing Michael Isikoff’s book Russian Roulette, pages 158-161, but you can find this stuff elsewhere, you want sources Bob, here ya go!
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/02/03/carter-page-nunes-memo-216934
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/09/carter-page-is-a-very-unlikely-gop-hero/570655/
https://www.businessinsider.com/jd-gordon-carter-page-trump-russia-moscow-trip-2017-11
https://www.businessinsider.com/car...l-testimony-transcript-steele-dossier-2017-11
But to boil it down, your main argument is what, because Page was not indicted he therefore should not have been investigated, and because he was not indicted, the investigation into him was improper?
And you are still avoiding my question about the deep state’s battle plan. Smatter, you scared? Break that down for me, what were they doing not leaking before the election this nefarious investigation they cooked up to torpedo Trump? You wanna cut heads with me Bob, you need to answer that lick:
