Bureau said to possess been allowed to monitor Page’s communication during the election because it believed he was acting as a Kremlin agentThe FBI obtained a secret court order last summer to monitor the communications of Carter Page,an adviser to the then presidential candidate Donald Trump, over suspicions he was a Russian agent, and the Washington Post has reported.
Page is among the Trump associates under scrutiny as the FBI and congressional committees investigate whether any of them colluded with Moscow to skew the 2016 election in Trump’s favour. Both Page and Trump possess denied any wrongdoing and portrayed the investigations as a witch-hunt. But the investigations continue to haunt the Trump administration. Related: Ex-Trump adviser says phone may possess been tapped,without offering evidence Related: Trump associates' links with Russia: what we know so far Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com