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==Paid FBI informant==

==Paid FBI informant==

Carter Page was a paid FBI Under-Cover Employee in 2013, and remained the primary FBI witness in a case against an agent of the [[Russian Federation]] through March 2016. Carter Page volunteered with the Trump campaign on March 21 of the same year. In October, the Obama [[Department of Justice]] represented Carter Page to the FISA court as an "agent of a foreign power" to gain ''retroactive'' FISA Title I authority over Page, to cover the [[Obama administration]]'s [[illegal]] spying on the [[2016 Trump campaign]]. Title I surveillance is the most severe and intrusive [[surveillance]] authority, giving the [[FBI]] authority to apply the same intrusions against anyone Carter Page came in contact with - the entire Trump organization.

Carter Page was a paid FBI Under-Cover Employee in 2013, and remained the primary FBI witness in a case against an agent of the [[Russian Federation]] through March 2016. When Russian inteigence attempted to recruit Page in 2013, Page went to the FBI and informed them of the approach. Page agreed to wear a wire for the FBI to build a case against the Russian spies, and was compensated for his efforts. The DOJ and FBI recognized Page's help as the indespensible factor in securing convictions of the Russian spies.

 

Ten days after the Department of Justice publicly announced the convictions of the Russian spies with Page's help, Page joined the Trump campaign as an unpaid volunteer.

 

In October 2016, the Obama [[Department of Justice]] represented Carter Page to the FISA court as an "agent of a foreign power" to gain ''retroactive'' FISA Title I authority over Page, to cover the [[Obama administration]]'s [[illegal]] spying on the [[2016 Trump campaign]]. Title I surveillance is the most severe and intrusive [[surveillance]] authority, giving the [[FBI]] authority to apply the same intrusions against anyone Carter Page came in contact with - the entire Trump organization.

On March 11, 2016 a DOJ press release announced {{quotebox|[[Preet Bharara]], the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and [[John P. Carlin]], Assistant Attorney General for National Security, announced that Evgrny Buryakov, a/k/a “Zhenya, pled guilty today to conspiring to act in the United States as an agent of the Russian Federation, without providing prior notice to the Attorney General.<br>The FBI obtained recordings after Sporyshev attempted to recruit Carter Page who was posing as an analyst from a New York-based energy company. In response to requests from Sporyshev, Carter Page provided Sporyshev with binders containing purported industry analysis written by Page and supporting documentation relating to Carter Page's reports, as well as covertly placed recording devices."<ref>https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/evgeny-buryakov-pleads-guilty-manhattan-federal-court-connection-conspiracy-work</ref>}}

On March 11, 2016 a DOJ press release announced {{quotebox|[[Preet Bharara]], the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and [[John P. Carlin]], Assistant Attorney General for National Security, announced that Evgrny Buryakov, a/k/a “Zhenya, pled guilty today to conspiring to act in the United States as an agent of the Russian Federation, without providing prior notice to the Attorney General.<br>The FBI obtained recordings after Sporyshev attempted to recruit Carter Page who was posing as an analyst from a New York-based energy company. In response to requests from Sporyshev, Carter Page provided Sporyshev with binders containing purported industry analysis written by Page and supporting documentation relating to Carter Page's reports, as well as covertly placed recording devices."<ref>https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/evgeny-buryakov-pleads-guilty-manhattan-federal-court-connection-conspiracy-work</ref>}}