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| Carter Page, Useful Idiot |
| 2018-02-15 |
| h/t Instapundit [AmericanThinker] As someone who has followed Russia for four decades, I perceive Carter Page as a bit of a naif. Our assessments of Russian foreign policy, by all accounts, are diametrically opposed, and Page’s inclusion, along with Mike Flynn, on the Trump campaign’s foreign-policy team gave me yet another reason not to vote for The Donald. With all due respect for Page’s native intelligence and high level of education, he comes across as what Lenin pithily called a "useful idiot." ...Indicative of this attitude is the surreptitiously taped characterization of Page by the Russian intelligence operative who vetted him in 2013 for possible recruitment: "I think he is an idiot." Apparently, however, Page didn’t even qualify as a useful one‐the operative decided he was not even worth recruiting. This assessment should be borne in mind, since Trump’s detractors, to the contrary, have decided that Page is extremely useful indeed, albeit in an entirely different way. ...Make no mistake: If the account in the Steele dossier were true, it would represent a quantum leap in Russian risk-taking with regard to manipulation of foreign elections. Things like hacking and leaking, or planting slanted stories, are low-cost, low-risk activities impossible to trace back to senior Russian officialdom. However, if the Russian leadership were taking the gamble of personal involvement in such a high-risk scheme, would it trust a man whom their own intelligence services had assessed as worthless? ...It’s hardly a secret that, for a broad swath of the U.S. political classes and the American press, the removal of Trump has become the Holy Grail, the goal to which all other things must be subordinated. In this sacred endeavor, Carter Page is useful in ways that even the most cynical Russian handlers could hardly have imagined. And if his dignity and reputation must be utterly trashed in the process‐well, so much the worse for Page. Mind you, the ruling elites would do anything to undermine political opponents, not just in USA. Right now chief legal authority in Israel decides whether Israel's PM should stand trial for receiving a gift of cigars. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #9 Where's the poop on Bill Clinton from Ken Starr's investigation? |
| Posted by: Kofi Clutch9287 2018-02-15 14:04 |
| #8 Last week, I was trying to answer the question: "Who is Carter Page?" Haven't yet read Pages's testimony. It's possible Page was groomed and a plant. I also checked with a guy very high up in Merrill Lynch during the time 7 years Page was reported to be there. He did not know him. I wonder if Carter Page was blackmailable? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-02-15 12:16 |
| #7 I have come to the conclusion that Carter Page was a deliberate plant in the Trump Administration I've been saying this for weeks. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-02-15 11:54 |
| #6 Notice how SUDDENLY the Russian collusion narrative and the Mueller "investigation" and the Shiff(less) democratic memo have disappeared from the media? I've scoured the internet for the latest developments in this below the surface civil war and all I hear are crickets. Obviously, the media has decided to not cover the negative blow back on their false narrative. OR...are the Klingons merely regrouping and plotting their next attempt to discredit Trump? Or is the Stormy Daniels thing their last good shot before calling it a day? Is the kitchen getting too hot and are they all running for cover now that we know the media was signed sealed and delivered, with money no less, to support his crap...and Sid Blumenthal of all people? Really? Who could honestly trust anything that Slimy Sid says??? They used it as "intelligence?" And they used Cody Shearer??? Talk about acceleration of commitment to a failing endeavor. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-02-15 10:06 |
| #5 Thereare no coincidences in the world. It is NOT a coincidence that Carter Page sent emails to various contacts in the Trump Campaign the day AFTER the FISA warrant was approved. BINGO ! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-02-15 09:33 |
| #4 I have come to the conclusion that Carter Page was a deliberate plant in the Trump Administration. If the truth be known, he was recruited by the FBI to give them a door into the Trump Campaign. There are no coincidences in the world. It is NOT a coincidence that Carter Page sent emails to various contacts in the Trump Campaign the day AFTER the FISA warrant was approved. The timing is too convenient to be a coincidence. Those emails allowed the FBI to throw their net over the Trump Campaign to spy. Carter Page is playing the dunce. I will play the contrarian card. Those tapes calling Page an idiot, who said it and who got the recording. As invested as the FBI and CIA were in sabotaging Trump, I believe they could have manufactured a bunch of stuff to support their narrative. I believe Page has been coached and groomed to play the naïve useful idiot for the press. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-02-15 09:29 |
| #3 Page was used as a means to an end. It looks more and more like he did nothing other than have a profile that could be distorted and used for the purpose of obtaining a FISA warrant. The employment of Page was likely a two-stage operation: 1. Exploit Page's well documented Russian history and contacts to gain approval of the FISA warrant. 2. Exploit Page's access into a more urgent target, the Trump campaign. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-02-15 09:25 |
| #2 The Ingraham interview of Page a week or so ago made Page look like a well-educated but naïve and hinky. Page became a tool, not of the Russians but by those here who were desperate to take down Trump. Page was used as a means to an end. It looks more and more like he did nothing other than have a profile that could be distorted and used for the purpose of obtaining a FISA warrant. Trump was open, while campaigning, about the danger and threat he presented to the Deep State. The left did not expect HRC to lose. In fact, the Podesta emails indicated that Trump was the person who HRC and her associates most wanted HRC to run against--he was supposed to be the candidate who was the most easily beatable. The Dems made the mistake of believing their own bullshit; all their bought polls said she was going to win. When she lost, panic ensued and plans were activated to take down Trump. Some of these plans appear to still be ongoing and difficult to dismantle. Swamp dwellers are still screwing around. A few well-placed indictments of Swamp Dwellers and Shadow Government members might put a chill on their plans and activities. It's not like the evidence is not all around. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-02-15 09:18 |
| #1 Equally disturbing is Stephanopoulos’ mendacious assertion that Page was “recruited by a Russian agent.” Of course Page was not “recruited.” He was only vetted for a possible recruitment attempt—and found to be not worth the effort. Why do we assume the Russians cannot recognize a plant ? It would indeed be a waste, all of that legend building, training and travel. Surely he can be used elsewhere. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-02-15 07:59 |