The FBI used Carter Page to get a FISA warrant on Trump. A FISA Warrant was necessary to make their spying on Trump legal. However they needed proper predicate of crime to get a FISA Warrant. With Carter Page exonerated, it shows at best, the criminal predicate was faulty. In other words the entire investigation is fruit from a poisonous tree.*
How could the FBI be so wrong, on such a high stakes issue? Because they had Carter Page as the go between for Putin and Trump.
Then there's Carter Page himself. At best, he's just one of these guys that hangs around east coast elites going from job to job, making a living.
At worst, it goes into a conspiracy against Trump. There hasn't been much of a reason why Page joined and left the Trump campaign. Maybe it was all innocent. Then there's Carter Pages background.
In 2013 Carter Page was working as an “under-cover employee” (UCE) of the FBI, helping them to build a case against “Evgeny Buryakov”. In March 2016 Carter Page remained their informant pre-trial leading to a pleading of guilty from Buryakov.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/20 ... hes-a-spy/
So, the same month Carter Page is an FBI employee, with a history as an UCE, he joins the Trump campaign. What are we to think about Carter Page ?
A) He's just an innocent guy that got caught up in global politics
B) He was an FBI employee that then went to work for Trump, presumably because his employment with the FBI ended. Then became the predicate to investigate Trump.
C) He was and still is an FBI undercover employee, thus had to be exonerated by Mueller
Are their other options ? He's a curious character at the center of what happens and I haven't seen enough evidence to say what really happened.
*as I understand the law