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The FBI releases a heavily redacted version of the FISA warrant application to spy on former Trump campaign aide Carter Page. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political…

Michael Caputo, a former aide to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, says the FBI and federal judges who approved and released a foreign surveillance warrant application on Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page owe him an apology.

Heavily-redacted application outlines justifications for surveilling ex-campaign aide Carter Page; Tom Fitton weighs in. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and business news. The number one network…

On 'Fox & Friends,' press secretary Sarah Sanders reacts to the president's warning against Iran's Rouhani and if he will get involved in declassifying parts of the Carter Page FISA application. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news…

Former Secret Service agent sounds off after documents show the unverified Steele dossier was a factor in the FISA surveillance warrant against Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering…

If the information in the FBI’s Carter Page warrant constituted probable cause for wiretapping an American political campaign, then the process and the officials involved in it carried out one of the most significant known violations of American civil liberties in recent history. The first warrant says plainly that the FBI already was convinced that the “Russian government’s efforts are being coordinated with Page and perhaps other individuals associated” with the Trump campaign. In renewals of the warrant, the FBI admits in a footnote that Steele was later fired by the FBI for lying to it, and yet the FBI maintains that his information is credible, even though the tips come from unspecified, unverified “sub sources.” The information is not first-hand from Steele, but second-hand, third-hand and fourth-hand. Even the prior case years in which the Russians did try to recruit Page were used against him, despite the fact that Page was not then an agent for the Russians and had cooperated with U.S. officials in outing the Russian approach. It details the unverified charge that the Russian government has blackmail material on Trump. They used unverified sources and echoes of those sources in the media, failed to specify relevant and known facts, considered hearsay material based on further hearsay as though it was evidence, and used its judgments and biases in place of concrete evidence to obtain a wiretap. The evidence here is that there was no real evidence. The Russians also went after the Republicans, and intercepted emails in the Mueller indictments reveal that the Russians thought Trump had only a remote chance of winning and were using the DNC hack to bolster Bernie Sanders over Clinton. We need to abolish or reform the FISA process, to put clear and severe restraints on government surveillance of political campaigns. Special counsels have now been reborn with even more unchecked power than ever.

Former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page denies allegations made in the FBI's redacted version of its previously classified foreign surveillance warrant application that states he was an agent for a foreign power and was contacted about compromising information about Hillary…

Report says emails show pressure in the FBI to probe the 2016 Trump campaign; Carter Page reacts on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.' #Tucker FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as…

President Trump blasted the "Criminal Deep State" early Wednesday, suggesting things have “turned around” in “SPYGATE,” following revelations of a reported FBI informant snooping on the Trump campaign. They go after Phony Collusion with Russia, a made up Scam, and end up getting caught in a major SPY scandal the likes of which this country may never have seen before! Trump then went on to quote former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who discussed the issue of an FBI informant Tuesday during ABC's "The View." Spying on a campaign would be illegal, and a scandal to boot!" Trump tweeted. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 20, 2018 The Justice Department instructed its inspector general to investigate any alleged “impropriety or political motivation” in the FBI’s investigation into Russian interference and potential collusion with Trump campaign associates during the 2016 presidential election, following demands from Trump. “I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes—and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration!” the president tweeted Sunday. Kelly will not attend the meeting — his role was simply to coordinate. “If they had spies in my campaign…for political purposes, that would be unprecedented,” Trump said Tuesday during a meeting in the Oval Office with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, calling it a “disgrace.” “I hope there weren’t,” Trump said. “[If there were], it would make every political event ever before look like small potatoes.”

The House Intelligence Committee on Saturday released a long-anticipated Democratic rebuttal that attempts to dismantle claims made in a GOP memo alleging the government used improper surveillance tactics during the 2016 presidential campaign. The rebuttal claims that officials at the FBI and Justice Department “did not abuse the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) process, omit material information, or subvert this vital tool to spy on the Trump campaign.” The Democratic rebuttal backed the FBI and DOJ in its pursuit of the FISA warrant, saying that the agencies “would have been remiss in their duty to protect the country had they not sought a FISA warrant and repeated renewals to conduct temporary surveillance of Carter Page, someone the FBI assessed to be an agent of the Russian government.” They added that the DOJ met the “rigor, transparency, and evidentiary basis” needed to meet FISA’s probable cause requirement. The GOP memo, released in early February, asserted that the FBI and DOJ relied on a Democrat-funded anti-Trump dossier to ask the FISA court for a warrant to monitor Page, a one-time adviser to President Donald Trump. President Trump tweeted following the rebuttal memo's release, calling it "a total political and legal BUST." — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 24, 2018 He added: "Dem Memo: FBI did no disclose who the client were - the Clinton Campaign and the DNC. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 24, 2018 Here are some other reactions to the memo: White House White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders calls the rebuttal a “politically driven document” which “fails to answer serious concerns raised by the Majority’s memorandum about the use of partisan opposition research from one candidate, loaded with uncorroborated allegations, as a basis to ask a court to approve surveillance of a former associate of another candidate, at the height of a presidential campaign.” Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif. https://t.co/G128SNicdn — Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) February 24, 2018 "Wrong again, Mr. President," Schiff said. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., tweeted that "the Schiff memo is a well-considered rebuttal to the misinformation in the Nunes memo," which she added, "shouldn't have seen the light of day." Sen. Mark Warner, D-VA Sen. Mark Warner, D-VA, called the FBI's actions "fully appropriate and entirely lawful" and said it was "deeply unfortunate that House Republicans decided to the release classified information in order to mislead the American people for partisan political purposes." — Mark Warner (@MarkWarner) February 24, 2018 "Now that the Nunes memo has been thoroughly debunked, the White House and its allies in Congress must put a stop to the dangerous partisan sideshows that jeopardize classified sources and methods and focus on Russia's unprecedented interference in our election."