Carter Page seems to have quite the fan clue. He’s got Inspector Clouseau (sorry, Nunes) and the Republican knuckle draggers on the House Intelligence Committee who are preparing the bonfire on which “disloyal” FBI employees will be thrown. And, it appears that Donald Trump may be a member as well.
Carter Page, you see, goes by more than one name. It’s “Male-1” to federal prosecutors in New York, including one you may have heard of...Preet Bharara. Page got tangled up in a little Russian spy ring that was operating in New York beginning in 2013. Investigators believed Page was sharing documents and other energy intelligence with the Russians, and by 2015, Bharara had built his case and busted the spy ring.
Bharara was in the process of prosecuting the case, which included the spy who recruited Carter Page and acted as his handler, when Trump abruptly fired Bharara, despite previous assurances that his job was safe. Was there a chance that Bharara’s investigation was getting too close to Trump? Was Trump just testing driving a little obstruction of justice to see it handles?