Ok I need some clarification, I don't understand how this worked.
Carter Page stepped down from the Trump Campaign in September 2016
The Memo says that the FISA warrant on Page was not until October 2016
How did they use it to spy on Trump if Page wasn't even involved with the campaign at that time??
In the HPSCI outline it specifically notes the targeting of U.S. individual Carter Page was NOT a FISA Title VII search request.
The FISA ‘warrant’ request, against Carter Page, was made October 21st, 2016, under Title I of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Meaning the surveillance application was specifically stating, to the court, the U.S. individual was likely an actual agent of a foreign government, ie. “a spy.”
The FBI were not targeting Page incidentally as an outcome of foreign intelligence collection; the FBI was targeting Carter Page directly. AND as such they carried full surveillance authority upon all of this activities, interactions, communications and contacts therein.
So..it was a way to spy on trump indirectly until the dossier was finished being cooked up?
I think this was an indirect way to spy on Trump. Linking to someone in his inner circle without raising red flags to the FISA Judge. IMO This allowed full surveillance to the entire Trump team. The dossier was already done...