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The specific items on page #6, lines 17 through 20 have no bearing on what Wolfe was actually charged with - lying to the [[FBI]]. A month later, on July 21 the redacted FISA Title-1 application used against U.S. person Carter Page was released.<ref>[http://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Carter-Page-FISA-Documents.FOIA-Release-1.pdf Carter Page FISA application] - original and three renewals. Heavily redacted.</ref> On page #54, 63, 65, 66, and 83 of the FISA application – the [[Fisa court|FISC Clerk]] copy stamp appears, drawing attention to the date of distribution, March 17, 2017. No other date appears in the 412 page document, other than the date of release, March 17, 2017 and the date of the FISA court's original issuance, October 21, 2016. All other dates are redacted.
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In February 2018 text messages between Senate Intelligence Committee Vice-Chairman [[Mark Warner]], and a lobbyist/lawyer named [[Adam Waldman]] were released.<ref>[https://www.scribd.com/document/371101285/TEXTS-Mark-Warner-texted-with-Russian-oligarch-lobbyist-in-effort-to-contact-Christopher-Steele?campaign=SkimbitLtd&ad_group=725X700959Xe41a4f164e9815536f40526507c6cedd&keyword=660149026&source=hp_affiliate&medium=affiliate Mark Warner - Adam Waldman text messages.]</ref> The resulting sunlight showed Senator Warner seeking Waldman’s Waldman's assistance in setting up a private meeting/interview with ''[[Trump dossier]]'' author [[Christopher Steele]].
On page #5 of the Warner text messages, we see the date March 17, 2017 again. The same date the Senate received the FISA application. This time we see that Warner was going into the Senate “skif” (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility or SCIF) shortly after 4:00pm, presumably to review the Carter Page FISA application.
==Wolfe's defense==
In July 2018 the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' reported that attorneys for Wolfe sent letters to all 15 senators on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, notifying them that their [[testimony]] may be sought as part of Wolfe’s Wolfe's defense.<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/former-intelligence-committee-aides-lawyers-want-testimony-from-senators-1532692801?mod=e2tw</ref>
Wolfe, who faced the lesser charge of lying to the FBI rather than the more serious charge of leaking classified [[national security]] information, apparantly apparently told the FBI he was acting on the instructions of his superiors when he leaked the Carter Page FISA application to reporter Ali Watkins in March 2017.
Sen. Warner likely instructed Wolfe to leak the content of the classified FISA application to Wolfe’s Wolfe's media sources.
==Significance==
The first issue deals with funding the dossier. Democrats argue [[Hillary Clinton]]'s fingerprints are in footnotes, and the FISA court was not hoaxed. Either way, it means the Senate Intel Committee and media outlets that gained access to the FISA application two months after President Trump was inaugurated knew it was Clinton's paid opposition research, and not the product of an FBI [[counterintelligence]] investigation.
The second and equally, if not more damning fact, was the lie the Obama Justice Department willfully told the FISA court about Carter Page. It was a an outrageous betrayal of trust, and abuse of Carter Page's civil and constitutional rights.
Carter Page was a paid FBI informant before he volunteered for the Trump campaign. Russian intelligence had approached Page in 2013. Page reported the approach to the FBI and agreed to work with the FBI, wearing a wire, to apprehend Russian intelligence officers.
