Carter Page Letter To Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein
Carter Page Letter To Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein
Carter Page Letter To Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein
I have been working to help the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence get to the bottom
of potential government meddling in the 2016 election. I am thus writing to request the
assistance of the U.S. Department of Justice with the immediate release of all documents held by
DoJ and other U.S. agencies associated with the Obama Administrations interference in the
2016 election. Specifically, any documents related to their alleged wiretapping of me.
If FISA warrants indeed exist as has been extensively reported, wide-ranging false evidence will
be inevitably revealed in light of the fact that I have never done anything remotely unlawful in
Russia or with any Russian person at any point in my life. In helping to expose the continued
divergence between fact and fiction, the documents that the U.S. Department of Justice must
now provide are crucial to repairing the integrity of your organization following last years
events. Your unbiased leadership in authorizing the release of this information can manifestly
help prove how completely unjustified this entire witch hunt organized by the Clinton campaign
and the Obama Administration has been all along.
Your letter of May 9, 2017 focused on the indefensible conduct of James Comey in the earlier
case of Mrs. Clintons emails.1 This marked Part 1 of the necessary process of restoring public
confidence in the F.B.I. Given the alleged involvement of the former F.B.I. Director in
compounding the civil rights abuses of the Clinton campaign and their associate Christopher
Steele against me and other Trump campaign supporters2, it is now also essential to get to the
1
Rod J. Rosenstein, RESTORING PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN THE FBI, Memorandum for
the Attorney General, May 9, 2017.
2
As per the relevant leak regarding the 2016 Dodgy Dossier author: Mr. Steele met his F.B.I.
contact in Rome in early October, bringing a stack of new intelligence reports The agent said
that if Mr. Steele could get solid corroboration of his reports, the F.B.I. would pay him $50,000
for his efforts, according to two people familiar with the offer. Matt Apuzzo, Michael S.
Schmidt, Adam Goldman and Eric Lichtblau, Comey Tried to Shield the F.B.I. From Politics.
bottom of these later offenses as well. By simply revealing these illegitimate court documents,
your help with Part 2 of this closely interrelated process surrounding government influence in the
2016 election should now achieve precisely that end.
In your May 9, 2017 memorandum, you also astutely noted: When federal agents and
prosecutors quietly open a criminal investigation, we are not concealing anything; we are simply
following the longstanding policy that we refrain from publicizing non-public information.
Based both on James Comeys testimony on March 20, 2017 and multiple leaks in the weeks
since regarding my unjustified FISA warrant, this represents the polar opposite of how my so-
called case has been handled. These recent events have remained particularly outrageous
given their basis on false evidence from Clinton campaign associates, as well as longstanding
political biases of Comey.
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) Chairman Richard Burr has proactively and
equitably pledged to, Follow the evidence where it leads, and we will continue to be guided by
the intelligence and facts as we compile our findings.3 As part of my vigorous quest to help the
SSCI and in the interest of belatedly setting the record straight regarding the completely fact-free
allegations that have been lawlessly hurled since the final months of the Clinton/Obama regimes
term in office, this letter thus constitutes a request under the Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C.
552a to obtain that indispensable information. Of particular importance, I seek an immediate
release of any 1804 FISA applications for wiretapping of myself in the possession of the
Department of Justice. The American people were severely misled with falsehoods throughout
the past year, so the information that the Department of Justice can now make public should play
a critical role in ending this facade and the disgrace to our democracy it represents.
In the event that this request is not granted, and the requested information not released, the nation
would undoubtedly be subjected to many more hours of misleading Congressional testimony
where honest answers are avoided. Per Comey on March 20, 2017, repeating a standard refrain
which protected him as well as other Obama Administration appointees from effective oversight
on countless other occasions while permitting the perpetuation of complete misperceptions prior
to subsequent felonious leaks: Because it is an open ongoing investigation and is classified, I
cannot say more about what we are doing and whose conduct we are examining.4 Prolonging
todays unjustified status quo is completely unacceptable given the breadth of lies, leaks and
resultant civil rights abuses this whole travesty has created since its inception.
Accordingly, Mrs. Clinton made remarks on May 2, 2017 which dodged responsibility for her
campaign by instead pointing fingers at two illusory monsters: Comey and Russia.6 While you
set the record straight regarding the first monster in your letter of last Thursday given Comeys
misconduct, the disclosure requested here in this letter will help get to the bottom of the second
set of hallucinations.
As reported in an unfortunate front-page Washington Post article about the civil rights abuses
committed against me: Applications for FISA warrants, Comey said, are often thicker than his
wrists, and that thickness represents all the work Justice Department attorneys and FBI agents
have to do to convince a judge that such surveillance is appropriate in an investigation.7 If this
thickness is indeed the case for my FISA warrant, it will inevitably be filled with a potpourri of
falsehoods from the Clinton/Obama regime which fabricated this travesty from the outset. For
the United States to end the continued delusional charade regarding Russia, it is essential to gain
public access to these related documents as a matter of the highest urgency.
Following your convictions means you must be willing to face criticism from those who
lack the same courage to do what is right and they know what is right, but they don't
have the courage or the guts or the stamina to take it and to do it. It's called the road less
traveled. I know that each of you will be a warrior for the truth, will be a warrior for our
country, and for your family. I know that each of you will do what is right, not what is the
easy way, and that you will be true to yourself, and your country, and your beliefs. In my
short time in Washington I've seen firsthand how the system is broken.8
In stark contrast, the severely broken Obama Administration allowed one of the most cowardly
and deceptive civil rights abuses in recent U.S. election history under a protective cloak of
secrecy. After presiding over some of the worst setbacks in the history of Americas bilateral
relationship with Moscow, the former Administrations desperate attempt to make an illegitimate
story out of Russia occurred after I took the road less travelled on a personal trip there in July
5
Maroon 5, Harder To Breathe, YouTube, June 16, 2009.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV8NHsmVMPE]
6
Full transcript of Hillary Clinton interview with Christiane Amanpour, May 2, 2017.
[http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1705/02/cnnt.02.html]
7
Ellen Nakashima, Devlin Barrett and Adam Entous, "FBI obtained FISA warrant to monitor
Trump adviser Carter Page" Washington Post, April 12, 2017.
[https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-obtained-fisa-warrant-to-monitor-
former-trump-adviser-carter-page/2017/04/11/620192ea-1e0e-11e7-ad74-
3a742a6e93a7_story.html]
8
Read President Trump's Liberty University Commencement Speech, Time, May 13, 2017.
[http://time.com/4778240/donald-trump-liberty-university-speech-transcript/]
2016 that had absolutely nothing to do with the Trump campaign. Your future steps in providing
the documents requested herein can play an essential role in resolving these complete falsehoods.
Under such a legacy of mismanagement and in the wake of unprecedented crimes surrounding an
illegal email server in 2016, the Comey monster spectacle lingered for the better part of a year
until decisive action was finally taken which marked Part 1 in this process. Your potential
forthcoming disclosure of the FISA warrants and associated materials to the American public
this week could mark a proactive and conclusive end to this continued, seemingly incessant
Russia madness which some still have in their heads.
In addition to the collusion between Clinton campaign associates and the Dodgy Dossier author
Christopher Steele, another factor seems to have been in play based under Comeys earlier
mismanagement of the F.B.I. Illegal leaks to news organizations have hinted that the help I
provided to federal agents in U.S.A. v. Evgeny Buryakov, Igor Sporyshev, and Victor Podobnyy
might have potentially played a role in last years unjustified, politically-motivated FISA
warrant(s). On April 3, 2017, reporters at ABC News9 and BuzzFeed News10 requested to meet
in order to inform me that some U.S. government operatives had unlawfully disclosed my
identity as the Male-1 witness in this 2015 case. It all relates to my brief interactions in 2013
with Victor Podobnyy, a junior attach assigned to the Permanent Mission of the Russian
Federation to the United Nations. This particular incident follows an increasing series of similar
revelations about other political unmaskings in 2016.11
During my prior meeting with F.B.I. agents at New Yorks Plaza Hotel in June 2013 in support
of their ongoing investigation, I spoke with them at length about my research on international
political economy which I had been completing as a Fellow at the Center for National Policy in
Washington. I brought this up because it seemed to me that the resources of the U.S. Department
of Justice and the F.B.I. might be better allocated towards addressing real national security
threats, particularly given the recent Boston Marathon bombing of April 15, 2013. Without
question, the harsh retribution subsequently taken against me suggests a possible direct
retaliation against my dissenting positions, some of which I shared with the agents that day.
Per an article I had recently written and discussed with the U.S. agents at the time, the
Clinton/Obama regime had been, Reflecting the highest principles of cronyism rather than
democracy, in many of their policy decisions. In my writings, I had also cited a recent quote
from Maya Angelou which seemed of particular relevance given a range of ineffective policy
approaches by Washington at the time: The philosophers tell us that power corrupts and
9
Brian Ross and Matthew Mosk, Trump campaign adviser Carter Page targeted for
recruitment by Russian spies, ABC News, Apr 4, 2017. [http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-
campaign-advisor-carter-page-targeted-russian-spies/story?id=46557506]
10
Ali Watkins, A Former Trump Adviser Met With A Russian Spy, BuzzFeed News, April
3, 2017. [https://www.buzzfeed.com/alimwatkins/a-former-trump-adviser-met-with-a-russian-
spy]
11
Kristina Wong, Lindsey Graham: 'We Will Continue' to Look into Susan Rice's
Unmasking, Breitbart News, May 4, 2017. [http://www.breitbart.com/big-
government/2017/05/04/lindsey-graham-we-will-continue-to-look-into-susan-rices-unmasking/]
absolute power corrupts absolutely.12 This corruption, as I noted in my writings at the time, had
marked an earlier instance of an influence campaign and related domestic political intelligence
operations in support of failed policies abroad, which would eventually be repeated with the civil
rights violations based on complete fabrications spread by many of the same people during the
2016 election.
In the wake of the civil rights abuses and outright lies promulgated by the Clinton/Obama regime
last year, we must get to the bottom of these questions that have ridiculously remained at the top
of the national attention and which your leadership in disclosure can facilitate. Based in large
part on the widely promulgated misinformation from the Clinton campaign and their other
associates, Clinton campaign surrogate13 and Ranking Member of the Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence Adam B. Schiff suggested in an article on the front page of
yesterdays New York Times: For a president who baselessly accused his predecessor of
illegally wiretapping him, that Mr. Trump would suggest that he, himself, may have engaged in
such conduct is staggering.14
Based on revelations thus far, I was the primary known person allegedly put under the most
intensive surveillance by the Obama Administration as part of their 2016 domestic political
intelligence operation. Assuming the FISA reports in the Washington Post, New York Times and
other publications about me are correct, the facts should help dispel the misinformation that
Congressman Schiff and others have been given and continue to repeat. To the contrary, each of
the Presidents tweets of March 4, 2017 were entirely correct as described in the analysis of his
four related statements that day, below:
Although I stepped away from my role as an informal, unpaid campaign volunteer in the wake of
the Clinton campaigns lies based on the 2016 Dodgy Dossier, like many millions of
Americans I continued my support as a member of the Trump movement which I had maintained
since June 2015.
The key defense that former Obama Administration appointees including James Comey have
made apparently centers on the word my.
12
Maya Angelou, The 2013 Time 100: Icons, Time, April 18, 2013.
[http://time100.time.com/2013/04/18/time-100/slide/michelle-obama/]
13
It is both painful and disturbing to see her surrogates peddle half-truths and insult our
intelligence. On Fox News Sunday, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) fared poorly against an
experienced interviewer like Chris Wallace Jennifer Rubin, Clinton surrogates serve up thin
gruel, Washington Post, May 30, 2016. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-
turn/wp/2016/05/30/clinton-surrogates-serve-up-thin-gruel/]
14
Peter Baker and Michael D. Shear, Trump Stirs a New Question: Are There Tapes? New
York Times, May 13, 2017, Page A1. [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/us/politics/trump-
threatens-retaliation-against-comey-warns-he-may-cancel-press-briefings.html]
In the English language, the word my is defined as: belonging to or ASSOCIATED WITH
the speaker (emphasis added).15 Although I previously served as a very junior member of the
Trump movement who didnt actually have any direct one-on-one discussions or meetings with
our candidate, I have been labelled as a Trump associate in literally thousands of media articles
and television programs. This labeling largely stemmed from consistent mischaracterizations by
the Clinton campaign which tried to smear the Trump campaign with false allegations of
improper relationships with Russian officials which never actually occurred.
Furthermore, in order to properly understand his personal lexicon which stems from the altruistic
management philosophy of President Trump, it is useful bearing in mind his core campaign
philosophy. Per his Election Day victory speech:
"As I've said from the beginning, ours was not a campaign but rather an incredible and
great movement, made up of millions of hard-working men and women who love their
country and want a better, brighter future for themselves and for their family..... This was
tough. This political stuff is nasty, and it is tough.... You've all given me such incredible
support, and I will tell you that we have a large group of people. You know, they
kept saying we have a small staff. Not so small. Look at all of the people that we have.
Look at all of these people."16
Additionally, then-candidate Donald J. Trump also previously explained how his movement was
not about him but about us on countless other occasions last year. Again, in his final speech at
the end of the campaign after victory had been declared, President-elect Trump noted: Ive just
received a call from Secretary Clinton. She congratulated us its about us on our
victory.17
Based on the actual facts in my case rather than the false information provided by the Clinton
campaign and their surrogates in the U.S. Government last year, members of my legal team have
informed me that the alleged actions by the Obama Administration are certainly not legal. In
order to prove this and rather than continuing the current cover-up, access to the information that
I am requesting here is essential.
15
My, Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press, 2017.
[https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/my]
16
Transcript: Donald Trumps Victory Speech, New York Times, November 9, 2016.
[https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/10/us/politics/trump-speech-transcript.html]
17
Transcript: Donald Trumps Victory Speech, New York Times, November 9, 2016.
[https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/10/us/politics/trump-speech-transcript.html]
"I'D BET A GOOD LAWYER COULD MAKE A GREAT CASE OUT OF THE FACT
THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA WAS TAPPING MY PHONES IN OCTOBER, JUST
PRIOR TO ELECTION!"
My legal team has confirmed that great cases can be made. However, in order to do so, the
information requested here would be very helpful.
"HOW LOW HAS PRESIDENT OBAMA GONE TO TAPP MY PHONES DURING THE
VERY SACRED ELECTION PROCESS. THIS IS NIXON/WATERGATE. BAD (OR
SICK) GUY!"
Having previously spoken in favor of some of Mr. Trumps policies on other Fox News Group
programs during the 2016 campaign18 and given the peaceful relationship I have had with
Russian citizens since my years in the U.S. Navy, it may be understandable why I would be the
primary associated political target if such sick activities had indeed been committed as alleged in
the previously cited media reports. Although I have never had any direct relationship or
meetings with President Trump despite previously serving as an informal, unpaid member of one
of his campaign committees, I had frequently dined in Trump Grill, had lunch in Trump Caf,
had coffee meetings in the Starbucks at Trump Tower, attended events among other visits in
2016. As a sister skyscraper in Manhattan, my office at the IBM Building (590 Madison
Avenue) is literally linked to the Trump Tower building by an atrium. So if prior media reports
are proved to be correct that surveillance was indeed undertaken against me and other Trump
supporters according to the FISA documentation you can provide, it will essentially be deemed
as a proven fact that the American peoples concerns that Trump Tower was under surveillance
last year is entirely accurate. Please note that my mobile phone is always turned on and with me
24-hours a day, except when I am in airplane-mode during flights. As an early Trump campaign
supporter since June 2015 and a proud member of the historic Make America Great Again
movement, yet another attack against me of this sort may well have been a de facto attack against
the citizen who would eventually become our current President of the United States. Clearly,
such potential abuses will be proven or disproven based on the information regarding the alleged
illegal wiretapping of me and any associated FISA warrants that you can help provide.
While a September 23, 2016 news article stated that, U.S. intelligence agencies have also
received reports that Page met with another top Putin aide while in Moscow, 19 it wasnt until
several months later in January 2017 that the source of this false evidence became fully known:
the Dodgy Dossier prepared on behalf of the "Hillary for America campaign. As a potential
severe case of election fraud, any FISA warrant would help ascertain whether criminal
obstruction of justice in the form of false evidence may be the case. After the report by Yahoo
18
For example: Fox Business, August 16, 2016 [http://finance.yahoo.com/video/jan-brewer-
obama-not-concerned-224534142.html]; Fox Business, Varney & Co., September 8, 2016.
19
Michael Isikoff, U.S. intel officials probe ties between Trump adviser and Kremlin, Yahoo
News, September 23, 2016.
News, the Clinton campaign put out an equally false press release just minutes after the article
was released that afternoon.20
Just days before the election, the same U.S. Government-funded sources repeated these
fabrications: Another adviser, Carter Page, reportedly met with top Kremlin officials including
those under U.S. sanctions.23
The propagation of these falsehoods was indeed truly state-sponsored by our taxpayer dollars
with Radio Free Europe/Radio Libertys FY 2016 budget of $108.4 million in direct federal
subsidies.
My request for disclosure here echoes recent loud cries from across Americas political spectrum
including the American Civil Liberties Union (With just the stroke of a pen, President Trump
could provide the public with the information necessary to assess his claims that the Obama
administration improperly surveilled him and his associates.)24 and Judicial Watch (Hillary
Clintons national security crimes included running the most highly classified material the U.S.
possesses across her outlaw server without legal consequence. If Communications Intelligence
is used as a partisan political weapon without people going to jail, we will have crossed the point
20
Hillary for America, Hillary for America Statement on Bombshell Report About Trump
Aides Chilling Ties To Kremlin, September 23, 2016.
[https://www.hillaryclinton.com/briefing/statements/2016/09/23/hillary-for-america-statement-
on-bombshell-report-about-trump-aides-chilling-ties-to-kremlin/]
21
Rowan Scarborough, Ex-spy admits anti-Trump dossier unverified, blames Buzzfeed for
publishing, Washington Times, April 25, 2017.
[http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/apr/25/christopher-steele-admits-dossier-charge-
unverifie/]
22
Report: U.S. Intelligence Officials Examining Trump Adviser's Russia Ties, Radio Free
Europe / Radio Liberty, September 24, 2016. [http://www.rferl.org/a/report-us-intelligence-
probes-trump-advisers-russia-ties-kremlin/28010062.html]
23
Mike Eckel, Reset To Overload: Russia-U.S. Ties Have Changed, No Matter Who Wins
The Election, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, November 6, 2016. [http://www.rferl.org/a/u-
s-election-trump-clinton-relations-russia/28100058.html]
24
Neema Singh Guliani, How Trump Can Show Us Whether He Was Spied On, ACLU
Washington Markup Blog, April 13, 2017.
of no return for institutional corruption in our government, our intelligence services and law
enforcement.).25
The final report of my 1993 Trident Scholar research at the U.S. Naval Academy concluded:
When information is leaked by other than official sources, the act may undermine the overall
integrity of an administration's policy.26 The veil of secrecy heretofore concealing these
potential criminal actions by the Clinton/Obama regime in 2016 has in turn undermined the
Trump Administration and our country. Your leadership in expeditiously authorizing this release
of the information requested herein will help resolve this detrimental and unjustified problem for
our nation.
Overstepping his realm of responsibility once again, Comey pontificated on Russia, Certainly in
my view, the greatest threat of any nation on earth, given their intention and their capability.27
This displayed a completely unfounded statement and reflected a bias from the former F.B.I.
Director which may have contributed to or at least exacerbated the aforementioned misdeeds of
the Obama Administration and the Clinton campaign.
The documents I am requesting include all applications made pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 1804
directed against me, and all related materials.
While lawyers working on my behalf as well as civil rights organizations are currently pursuing
this information through the appropriate channels via the federal bureaucracy as well, the
typically slow administrative timelines for such release would only prolong the continued state
of affairs. I am therefore contacting you directly given the realization that an immediate
resolution of this injustice through these disclosures of the actual facts surrounding last years
misdeeds would facilitate your efforts to restore confidence in the F.B.I. and DoJ which have
been badly damaged by Obama Administration appointees.
25
Chris Farrell, On Watch: Episode 11 Corrupt Weaponizing of Intelligence Collection,
Judicial Watch, March 28, 2017. [http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-
releases/watch-episode-11-corrupt-weaponizing-intelligence-collection/]
26
Carter W. Page, Balancing Congressional Needs for Classified Information: A Case Study
of the Strategic Defense Initiative, Defense Technical Information Center, U.S.N.A. Trident
Scholar project report, no. 206, 1993, p. 11. [http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a271110.pdf]
27
Read the full testimony of FBI Director James Comey in which he discusses Clinton email
investigation, Washington Post, May 3, 2017. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-
politics/wp/2017/05/03/read-the-full-testimony-of-fbi-director-james-comey-in-which-he-
discusses-clinton-email-investigation/]
The story of the 2016 election was to a large extent a battle between powerful political and
business interests on an epic scale vs. average citizens who simply want to see improvements in
our country. It is unfortunate that a small fish like me has been severely damaged based
primarily on completely false allegations in a dossier commissioned and used by killer whales
that is 100% inaccurate in every way as it relates to me. Your assistance with this requested
disclosure can resolve these stark injustices while assisting your Department return attention to
more important matters.
By all indications, your letter from Tuesday which began the first step in the process of restoring
public confidence in the FBI and rehabilitating justice in America seems to be the most
consequential correspondence of your life. My letter to you today continues the second giant
leap in the process of restoring public confidence in the FBI and rehabilitating justice in America
and might similarly be the most consequential communication of my life. Let us please build
upon your new momentum by moving forward together in helping to restore Americas justice
system. Thank you in advance for your help with this vital national security matter.
Sincerely,