A point I gesture at here but don’t really get into: The structure of the redacted Page application suggests one way FBI may have tried to bolster their case beyond the Steele reporting.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/24/opinion/trump-carter-page-fisa-application.html …
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Also, this is not just ELSUR. Also, they application has to prove Page was acting clandestinely.
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Maybe. But they wouldn't need to show that if they can show if (a) Russia does clandestine activities (obv) and (b) Page "knowingly conspired with someone doing those clandestine activities"
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I.e. the language "conspiring" only exists for the final clause of 1801(b)(2)(E) which only requires knowingly conspiring with people acting clandestinely, not that he act clandestinely himself in doing so.pic.twitter.com/mo8v7tNDo4
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And how would his publicly reported meetings in RU being knowingly conspiring with people acting clandestinely? I'm not the only one saying this--so were leakers who've read the section.
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Moreover, why does it matter, at all, that the campaign is disavowing Page if they're not looking at hiding their own activity? They're not being targeted.
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I read section IV as bringing to the court's attention all the facts that counterweight the FBI's argument. There are three public ones: * Yahoo article w highlights that campaign claims Page was a nobody * Page's denial letter * Another article where Page says claims are garbage
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I know you read it that way. It's a misreading of the Yahoo article (particularly the part that uses anonymous sourcing to talk about worries about this), and what people who've read the section the Yahoo letter is in there for.
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I get that you have it in your head that they must have included a separate exonerating section, but your argument here doesn't make any sense, bc that section doesn't do that, even if they would have one in an affy, which I've never ever seen.
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Thorough.
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