On October 15, 2016 Strzok and DOJ Deputy Bruce Ohr rewrote a narrower FISA warrant application dropping Trump's name and focusing on Carter Page.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/03/04/summary-of-media-articles-discussing-obamas-fisa-warrants-to-monitor-candidatepresident-trump/</ref> While the [[BBC]] suggested that the surveillance was meant to ferret out “transfers of money,” Louise Mensch asserted that a “warrant was granted to look at the full content of [[email]]s and other related documents that may concern US persons.”<ref>https://archive.is/0miO5</ref> The FBI did not inform the court that the FBI authorized payment to Steele for the information. On October 21 the FISA court approved the warrant application on Carter Page giving the FBI unfettered and retroactive authority to access Page's upstream and downstream private electronic communications with the Trump campaign. | On October 15, 2016 Strzok and DOJ Deputy Bruce Ohr rewrote a narrower FISA warrant application dropping Trump's name and focusing on Carter Page.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/03/04/summary-of-media-articles-discussing-obamas-fisa-warrants-to-monitor-candidatepresident-trump/</ref> While the [[BBC]] suggested that the surveillance was meant to ferret out “transfers of money,” Louise Mensch asserted that a “warrant was granted to look at the full content of [[email]]s and other related documents that may concern US persons.”<ref>https://archive.is/0miO5</ref> The FBI did not inform the court that the FBI authorized payment to Steele for the information. On October 21 the FISA court approved the warrant application on Carter Page giving the FBI unfettered and retroactive authority to access Page's upstream and downstream private electronic communications with the Trump campaign. |