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The April leak attempted to paint Carter Page, and by extension the Trump administration, as an agent of the Kremlin. The FISA warrant itself used the same technique - the FBI knew Carter Page was not a Russian agent. Carter Page was on the FBI payroll as a paid informant and helped  secure a conviction of a Russian agent in 2015. Nonetheless, the FBI used Carter Page's contact with the Russian agent to lie to the FISA court and claim Page was a Russian agent without informing the court that Page wore a wire, secured a conviction for the FBI, was paid, and publicly thanked. The FBI further leaked the bogus narrative to Michael Isikoff of Yahoo News, and hoaxed the court into believing the Yahoo News article was independent corroboration of their own investigation. Here too in April 2017 we see the same elaborate deceptive echo chamber to a wider audience and a more focused nation, attempting to tarnish Trump's first 100 days in office.

The April leak attempted to paint Carter Page, and by extension the Trump administration, as an agent of the Kremlin. The FISA warrant itself used the same technique - the FBI knew Carter Page was not a Russian agent. Carter Page was on the FBI payroll as a paid informant and helped  secure a conviction of a Russian agent in 2015. Nonetheless, the FBI used Carter Page's contact with the Russian agent to lie to the FISA court and claim Page was a Russian agent without informing the court that Page wore a wire, secured a conviction for the FBI, was paid, and publicly thanked. The FBI further leaked the bogus narrative to Michael Isikoff of Yahoo News, and hoaxed the court into believing the Yahoo News article was independent corroboration of their own investigation. Here too in April 2017 we see the same elaborate deceptive echo chamber to a wider audience and a more focused nation, attempting to tarnish Trump's first 100 days in office.

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Oleg Deripaska claimed that an associate of Fusion GPS told his Washington, DC attorney Adam Waldman that FusionGPS was partly funded by [[George Soros]].<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2018/03/08/the-ever-changing-russia-narrative-in-american-politics-is-cynically-false-public-manipulation/</ref> Soros’s spokesman, Michael Vachon, said Soros funded Fusion GPS the a grant to the Democracy Integrity Project, which used Fusion GPS as a contractor.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-gop-spin-on-the-russia-probe-reads-like-a-noir-thriller--but-doesnt-add-up/2018/09/25/1b940c92-c0ca-11e8-be77-516336a26305_story.html</ref>

Oleg Deripaska claimed that an associate of Fusion GPS told his Washington, DC attorney Adam Waldman that FusionGPS was partly funded by [[George Soros]].<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2018/03/08/the-ever-changing-russia-narrative-in-american-politics-is-cynically-false-public-manipulation/</ref> Soros’s spokesman, Michael Vachon, said Soros funded Fusion GPS through a grant to the Democracy Integrity Project, which used Fusion GPS as a contractor.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-gop-spin-on-the-russia-probe-reads-like-a-noir-thriller--but-doesnt-add-up/2018/09/25/1b940c92-c0ca-11e8-be77-516336a26305_story.html</ref>

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*'''1 March.''' ''New York Times'' reports "In the Obama administration’s last days, some '''White House official have scrambled to spread information about''' Russian efforts to undermine the presidential election — and about possible contacts  between associates of '''President-elect Donald Trump''' and Russians — '''across the government.'''<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/01/us/politics/obama-trump-russia-election-hacking.html?_r=0</ref> "Low level" leaks of "Russian hacking" plagued the Executive Branch and among Congressional staffers with fake news since early January. This is commonly known as Obama's amendments to E.O. 12333.

*'''1 March.''' ''New York Times'' reports "In the Obama administration’s last days, some '''White House official have scrambled to spread information about''' Russian efforts to undermine the presidential election — and about possible contacts  between associates of '''President-elect Donald Trump''' and Russians — '''across the government.'''<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/01/us/politics/obama-trump-russia-election-hacking.html?_r=0</ref> "Low level" leaks of "Russian hacking" plagued the Executive Branch and among Congressional staffers with fake news since early January. This is commonly known as Obama's amendments to E.O. 12333.