Remember This Guy?
Carter Page.
Remember him?
He was about the screwiest guy on the Trump Caboose. I mean, this guy made all the rest of them look sane.
Last week, Page filed a $75 million dollar lawsuit against Jame Comey, Andrew McCabe, Kevin Clinesmith, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Joe Pientka III, Stephen Somma, Brian J. Auten, the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and for good measure, the United States of America for what he describes as ruining his life.
He’s got a lawyer and everything.
https://twitter.com/McAdooGordon/status/1332419313274384386
Think about it, though, $75 million would buy a whole lot of therapy. And everything in the Williams Sonoma catalog. Let me make it clear that I do not want everything in the Williams Sonoma catalog, I just want enough money to do it.
Thanks to Kary for the heads up.
They need to buy a verb.
1Tell me more about this ‘cultural aversion to spying’ on American citizens.
I have been reading about the McCarthyite spying, and Gallup took polls on that topic which regularly found around 70% support for spying on commies, or worse.
2lol @ the split hair definitions of “spying” vs the unlikely ‘coincidence’ of Carter Page’s name just miraculously popping up where it popped in numerous routine surveillance intercepts. Good luck to his attorneys with their “our client is daffier than the average daffy nutjob” defense.
3Harry Eagan, I teach high school, and I have taught college, and I have noticed that people (students) typically don’t connect government surveillance of citizens with their right to privacy, or any of the other amendments for that matter. It is very weird.
Maybe now it has to do with the fact that all my students have grown up post-9/11, and then it had to do with the Cold War.
But it is funny how easily Americans are willing to accept violations of our rights by our government that we would disparage if done by other countries. See also the unmarked vans kidnaping people in Portland.
And yes, I also noticed the typo in the tweet. Like the bill of rights, proofreading seems to be passe.
4Funny how treating a right-winger like a person protesting Trump policies is considered abusive.
5I just skimmed the document and found that it was reasonably well put together. It accurately lists facts that are verifiable and there is nothing really crazy in it.
However, the gist of it is that the FISA court approved a warrant on him when it should not have four times. That is what the FISA court is if or — to give a fig-leaf of oversight to the government’s sprawling law enforcement apparatus so the eavesdropping they do is concentered “proper” and something they can’t be sued for. Pretty much everything else in the document doesn’t seem actionable to me but maybe there is some statute that I am not aware of that applies. (Not a lawyer).
So: for this suit to succeed the court will have to rule the FISA court is acting outside of its constitutional authority. Good luck with that. Or establish that the FISA court itself is not constitutional. Good luck with that too.
6Dum, dumb and . . . oh, yeah – dumber! This iwll get thrown out in a hurry. It is way too much like what Rudy was doing running around ot varioius states like a combination of wild priairie chicken and a March hare.
7Carter Page’s life was ruined when he became a disciple of Trumpf (and probably long before that). I assume there is a go fund me aspect to this sham lawsuit.
8Alan @ 6. They would have to show that the FISA court was deliberately misled. The Justice investigation found errors but not culpable ones.
Culpable is subject to interpretation but the complaint’s repeated assertions that this or that was “admitted” are not supported.
9Alan @ 6: My understanding is that the last two of the four warrants were determined to be invalid by Barr’s corrupt DOJ which means the first two were valid. Russians were being investigated and he was caught consorting with them so this suit is a joke. The party of personal responsibility has become the party of whiny victims.
10Laughing my head off.
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