Well, I’m not ready to concede that Page was planted as a “mole” inside the Trump organization or anywhere else.
It’s beginning to appear that Page, a former paid FBI informant, was thrown under the bus by DOJ and the FBI for the express purpose of opening the net after he joined the Trump campaign, albeit temporarily; it would have been the most expeditious route into the Trump campaign at the time. I also suspect that a number of conversations involving members of the Trump campaign and transition team were intercepted and the participants unmasked as a result of broadening the Bureau’s “interest” beyond Page himself - even after he left the campaign. We now know what that interest was.
As for Page having worked on the staff of Sen. Moynihan, I wouldn’t read too much into that. I had dinner with Sen. Moynihan in 1990 when I was a captain in the Army and, although we didn’t agree on hardly anything, I genuinely liked the guy. we had some long, very in-depth discussions on a number of issues, but they were pleasant and civil. Yes, he was a liberal, but he was also an old-school Democrat and a civil libertarian to the core, i.e., nothing like Chuck Schumer or Nancy Pelosi. He would have been aghast at what’s being uncovered right now, as would many of his contemporaries.
Go try to find any whiff of conservatism for Page. I can’t find ANY. Lots of good LEFTIST credentials out there though.
(Comrade Juan McNuts contribution mitigating for my argument....)
“It’s beginning to appear that Page, a former paid FBI informant, was thrown under the bus by DOJ and the FBI for the express purpose of opening the net after he joined the Trump campaign, albeit temporarily; it would have been the most expeditious route into the Trump campaign at the time.”
Agree. My earlier “mole” statement was brief and overly broad, since I was posting from a Denny’s on a phone. Whether or not Page knew he was the guy who would open the door to a wiretap, it worked regardless. Maybe Page knew, maybe he didn’t know. But the FBI / Justice / 0bama cabal sure knew where to point him and use him.
Page was the key to the door for a wiretap by 0bama of Trump for Clinton.