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The U.S. government revealed in court filings Friday that the FBI used multiple confidential informants, including some who were paid for their information, as part of its investigation into former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
“The FBI has protected information that would identify the identities of other confidential sources who provided information or intelligence to the FBI” as well as “information provided by those sources,” wrote David M. Hardy, the head of the FBI’s Record/Information Dissemination Section (RIDS), in court papers submitted Friday.
Hardy and Department of Justice (DOJ) attorneys submitted the filings in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit for the FBI’s four applications for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants against Page. The DOJ released heavily redacted copies of the four FISA warrant applications on June 20, but USA Today reporter Brad Heath has sued for full copies of the documents.
Hardy’s declaration acknowledged that the confidential sources used by the FBI were in addition to Christopher Steele, the former British spy who authored the infamous anti-Trump dossier.
Imagine trump using his fbi to get fisa warrants on schumer, feinstien, booker and all the rest by saying they have connections to foreign influence peddler soros, or the chinese. The same people defending the FBI going after trump would howl that trump was an evil dictator.
originally posted by: Swills
a reply to: Grambler
FBI using informants? SAY IT AINT SO!
FYI, we're all being spied on all the time. Even allied nations spy on each. Why would you ever think Trump is somehow above this? What makes him so special other than the fact you support him? That's not a good enough reason.
You know, if only you spend your energy being upset you and I currently being spied on right now instead of wasting time on Trump. Jesus...
originally posted by: Swills
a reply to: Grambler
FBI using informants? SAY IT AINT SO!
FYI, we're all being spied on all the time. Even allied nations spy on each. Why would you ever think Trump is somehow above this? What makes him so special other than the fact you support him? That's not a good enough reason.
You know, if only you spend your energy being upset you and I currently being spied on right now instead of wasting time on Trump. Jesus...
originally posted by: jadedANDcynical
a reply to: Xcathdra
But they're not in office any more so what difference does it make?