BARE RUSSIA DOCS: TRUMP
Orders release of Justice e-mails
President Trump on Monday ordered the Justice Department to release documents and e-mails from four former FBI officials and one current Justice Department official, as well as documents that led to the surveillance of his former aide Carter Page.
“The president has directed the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Justice (including the FBI) to provide for the immediate declassification of . . . the June 2017 application to the FISA court in the matter of Carter W. Page,” the White House said in a statement.
FISA refers to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Trump also ordered the release of “all FBI reports of interviews with Bruce G. Ohr prepared in connection with the Russia investigation; and all FBI reports of interviews prepared in connection with all Carter Page FISA applications,” the statement continued.
“In addition . . . Trump has di- rected the Department of Justice (including the FBI) to publicly release all text messages relating to the Russia investigation, without redaction, of James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page and Bruce Ohr.”
Trump has long raged over special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and the Trump campaign’s possible collusion with Moscow.
And he has repeatedly accused former FBI Director Comey and Comey’s deputy, McCabe, Justice lawyer Ohr, former FBI agent Strzok and ex-FBI lawyer Page of conspiring against him.
“Immediately after Comey’s firing Peter Strzok texted to his lover, Lisa Page ‘We need to Open the case we’ve been waiting on now while Andy (McCabe, also fired) is acting. Page answered, ‘We need to lock in (redacted). In a formal chargeable way. Soon.’ Wow, a conspiracy caught?” Trump tweeted earlier Monday.
Carter Page told Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity on Monday night that the FBI’s investigation was “so incredibly stupid to begin with.”
“My biggest concern is all the damage that this did to the US government [and] the mockery it made out of the Constitution and all of the wrongdoing that was done by various officials within the Department of Justice, the FBI and the DNC [Democratic National Committee],” Page said.