How would one go about determining whether or not there was such evidence?
Why is anyone even continue to argue? This sums up the entire argument very succinctly and tells you all you need to know.
As you can see, a lot of resources were tasked to find this evidence, I think if it existed it would have been found. The key thing to remember is that many claimed the evidence existed but yet Mueller and his team couldn’t find it.
Page 95 of the Mueller report is where section IV. A. 3. Carter Page begins.
That section contains a bunch of evidence that Carter Page was an agent of a foreign power.
You didn’t answer my question.
I did answer your question. Why do you think the Mueller team didn’t find the evidence that many claimed existed with regards to the collusion/conspiracy with Russia?
I’m not sure what your point is. I have seen many validly issued search warrants that don’t result in the thing they’re looking for being found. You don’t judge a warrant with hindsight.
Well, the (at least) 10 cases of obstruction of justice outlined in the Muller report may have something to do with it.
Mueller didn’t find evidence that Page colluded with Russia to interfere in the 2016 election. Mueller didn’t look for evidence that Page colluded with Russia in other ways, and the FISA warrant did not say Page’s activities as a foreign agent were limited to the 2016 election. You are adding 1 and 1 and making 3.
You could become a federal prosecutor and conduct an investigation.
Page 95 of the Mueller report is where section IV. A. 3. Carter Page begins.
That section contains a bunch of evidence that Carter Page was an agent of a foreign power.
If memory serves, two Russian intelligence agents (in recorded conversation) thought Page was too stupid to be a worthwhile asset. So he wasn’t even considered a ‘useful’ idiot. Which doesn’t exonerate Page in any way.
You are basically correct.
You can find out a little more about this on page 97 of vol. I of the Mueller report (in section IV. A. 3. Carter Page). That’s the part of the report that contains a ton of evidence that Page was an agent of a foreign power.
For more info just follow the lead given by footnote 532 of the Mueller report, “See Buryakov Complaint; see also Indictment, United States v. Buryakov, 1:15-cr-73 (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 9, 2015), Doc. 10;” The Buryakov Complaint contains another pile of evidence that Carter Page was an agent of a foreign power.
I would quibble a bit with “agent”, in the sense outlined above that he is too damn stupid to have “agency”. For the same reason, I doubt that Il Douche is personally guilty of collaboration/collusion. The still, unblinking eye of the hurricane of shit whirling about him.
An incompetent buffoon who overestimates his abilities and thus fails in his attempt to successfully pull off a crime is still charged, and often convicted.
Easy Phil, are you under the impression that the Mueller probe’s goals included examining the circumstances surrounding the issuing of the FISA warrant on Page, for the purposes of either impeaching or validating it’s legitimacy?
It looks to me like you’re implying that.
True, but Carter Page was never charged or convicted and more importantly the Mueller report concludes that no American conspired with Russians to interfere in the 2016 election.
No, it’s clear that isn’t in the Mueller Report but what’s clear is that the evidence that the FBI used to assert that Carter Page was an agent of a foreign power i.e. Russia, was not found or made available to Mueller’s team since the report concluded that no American conspired with the Russians with respect to the 2016 election.
What does the evidence say? Why wasn’t he charged?
You were told where to look, literally given a page number. Just read it.