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 the 2013 attempted recruitment of Carter Page by Russian intelligence as successful to the FISA court as alleging Page was an "agent of a foreign power." The [[fraud]] commited against the court by Obama operatives was intended to gain ''retroactive'' FISA Title I authority over Page, to cover the [[Obama administration]]'s [[approval for illegal]] spying on surveillance throughout the [[2016 Trump campaignpresidential election]], as a a future "insurance policy" against Trump's election. The court granted FISA Title I surveillance is authority, the most severe and intrusive [[surveillance]] authority, giving the [[FBI]] authority to apply the same intrusions against anyone Carter Page came had electronic communications with, and in contact turn anyone Pages's contacts had communications with - eventually the entire Trump campaign as if it were a spy nest, drug cartel, or terrorist 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>}}