The Security Director of the Senate Intelligence Committee (SSCI), James Wolfe, leaked the FISA application on Carter Page to his journalist girlfriend Ali Watkins of [[BuzzFeed]]. Ms. Watkins then began reporting on elements within the application that applied to Carter Page. This seeded Journalist Devlin Barrett was the recipient of leaks from Lisa Page in late October 2016 on instructions from Andrew McCabe to refute charges of corruption in the various Clinton investigations days before the election. The pattern in April is the same: the leaks tried to spin a narrative favorable to the FBI's objectives on the dictates Andrew McCabe. McCabe later was fired for lying under oath multiple times and faces criminal prosecution for the October 2016 leaks. This seeded the media for subsequent stories. | The Security Director of the Senate Intelligence Committee (SSCI), James Wolfe, leaked the FISA application on Carter Page to his journalist girlfriend Ali Watkins of [[BuzzFeed]]. Ms. Watkins then began reporting on elements within the application that applied to Carter Page. This seeded Journalist Devlin Barrett was the recipient of leaks from Lisa Page in late October 2016 on instructions from Andrew McCabe to refute charges of corruption in the various Clinton investigations days before the election. The pattern in April is the same: the leaks tried to spin a narrative favorable to the FBI's objectives on the dictates Andrew McCabe. McCabe later was fired for lying under oath multiple times and faces criminal prosecution for the October 2016 leaks. This seeded the media for subsequent stories. |