Carter Page | |
|---|---|
 Page in 2017 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Carter William Page June 3, 1971 Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Education | United States Naval Academy (BS) Georgetown University (MA) New York University (MBA) SOAS, University of London (PhD) Fordham University (LLM) |
| Occupation | Investment banker Foreign policy analyst |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  United States |
| Branch/service |  United States Navy |
| Years of service | 1993–98 (Navy) 1998–2004 (Navy Reserve) |
| Rank |  Lieutenant |
Carter William Page (born June 3, 1971) is an American petroleum industry consultant and a former foreign-policy adviser to Donald Trump during his 2016 presidential election campaign.[1] Page is the founder and managing partner of Global Energy Capital, a one-man investment fund and consulting firm specializing in the Russian and Central Asian oil and gas business.[2][3][4]
Page was a focus of the 2017 Special Counsel investigation into the many suspicious[5][6] links between Trump associates and Russian officials and spies and Russian interference on behalf of Trump during the 2016 presidential election.[2] In April 2019, the Mueller report concluded that the investigation did not establish that Page coordinated in Russia's interference efforts.[7][8] In December 2019, the Inspector General for the Department of Justice, Michael E. Horowitz, issued a report on his inquiry into the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) investigation of the 2016 Trump campaign and its ties to Russia. Horowitz found fault with specific aspects of the FBI's conduct, including omissions of facts and false statements to the FISA court when applying for a warrant to conduct surveillance on Page.
In 2019, the Justice Department determined the last two of four FISA warrants to surveil Page were invalid.[9][10] Page has filed four lawsuits;[further explanation needed] all were dismissed by courts.
In December 2019, Rosemary Collyer, a senior U.S. district judge and one of four FISA Court judges who approved a warrant authorizing the wiretapping of Page, issued an order saying the FBI "provided false information to the National Security Division (NSD) of the Department of Justice, and withheld material information from NSD which was detrimental to the FBI's case, in connection with four applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for authority to conduct electronic surveillance of a U.S. citizen named Carter W. Page".[11]
- ^ Rogin, Josh (September 26, 2016). "Trump's Russia adviser speaks out, calls accusations 'complete garbage'". The Washington Post. Retrieved September 29, 2016.
- ^ a b Zengerle, Jason (December 18, 2017). "What (if Anything) Does Carter Page Know?". The New York Times.
- ^ Ioffe, Julia (September 23, 2016). "Who Is Carter Page?". Politico. Archived from the original on September 24, 2016. Retrieved September 24, 2016.
- ^ Isikoff, Michael (September 23, 2016). "U.S. intel officials probe ties between Trump adviser and Kremlin". Yahoo! News. Retrieved September 24, 2016.
- ^ Harding, Luke (November 15, 2017). "How Trump walked into Putin's web". The Guardian. Retrieved May 22, 2019.
...the Russians were talking to people associated with Trump. The precise nature of these exchanges has not been made public, but according to sources in the US and the UK, they formed a suspicious pattern.
- ^ Harding, Luke; Kirchgaessner, Stephanie; Hopkins, Nick (April 13, 2017). "British spies were first to spot Trump team's links with Russia". The Guardian. Retrieved May 13, 2019.
- ^ Samuelsohn, Darren; Cheney, Kyle; Bertrand, Natasha (April 23, 2019). "What you missed in the Mueller report". Politico. Arlington, VA.
- ^ Cohen, Marshall (June 14, 2019). "Explaining Republicans' claims about 'false information' in the Trump-Russia dossier". CNN.
But Steele was right that Page attended high-level meetings with Russians during his trip, even though Page was denying it at the time.
- ^ "Justice Department Believes It Should Have Ended Surveillance of Trump Adviser Earlier". Retrieved January 24, 2020.
Judge Boasberg ordered the government to explain further the specific steps it intended to take in response to its belief that some of the surveillance collected against Mr. Page lacked a legal basis.
- ^ Sandler, Rachel (January 23, 2020). "DOJ Says Two Wiretap Warrants Against Former Trump Aide Carter Page Are Invalid". Forbes. Retrieved July 5, 2020.
- ^ "IN RE ACCURACY CONCERNS REGARDING FBI MATTERS SUBMITTED TO THE FISC" (PDF). U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. December 17, 2019.