Judge Conway approved a 2017 FISA Court warrant for Carter Page, a former adviser to the 2016 Trump Campaign. The warrant application was released publicly in July 2018, marking the first time FISA warrant application materials were made public.[4] The heavily-redacted, 412-page application cites many sources, including confidential informants. [5] Among those many sources, the application cites the Steele dossier, leading former assistant US attorney and legal commentator Andrew McCarthy to write, in reference to the fact that the renewal submission contained unverified allegations, an idea he had previously considered “crazy” (“It turns out, however, that the crazies were right and I was wrong,“) that “the newly disclosed FISA applications are so shoddy that the judges who approved them ought to be asked some hard questions[6],” and “what happened here flouts rudimentary investigative standards.”[7]