FBI lawyer: Bureau used confidential sources who ‘already had’ Trump campaign contacts
“The FBI protected specific information about payments to CHSs on two pages of each FISA application,” he disclosed.
Hardy’s statement suggests that the FBI had CHSs beyond Steele, since the ex-MI6 officer was not paid for his Trump-related work.
Halper, who worked in the Nixon, Ford and Reagan administrations, had his first known contact with Page at a conference hosted at Cambridge University on July 11-12, 2016.
That was around three weeks before the FBI opened counterintelligence investigations on four Trump aides. Former FBI Director James Comey told Congress in December that four investigations were opened. It has separately been reported that the four initial targets of the probe were Page, Papadopoulos, Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn.
The FBI has not addressed why Halper would have established contact with Page prior to the launch of a formal investigation against him or the Trump campaign. Page has told TheDCNF that his July 2016 interaction with Halper was the first time he met the former professor.
Halper and Page remained in contact through September 2017, the same month that the fourth and final FISA warrant against Page expired."
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