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APRIL 11, 2017 : () The documents show that Andrew Weissmann arranged a meeting with DOJ and FBI officials and four Associated Press reporters on April 11, 2017, just over a month before Mueller was appointed special counsel.Manafort’s lawyers obtained the documents on June 29 and revealed them in a briefing filed in federal court in Virginia. ---- Mueller’s ‘Pit Bull’ Arranged Meeting With Reporters To Discuss Manafort Investigation ‎7‎/‎9‎/‎2018‎ ‎12‎:‎38‎:‎27‎ ‎AM · by Texas Fossil · 44 replies The Daily Caller ^ | 11:48 PM 07/08/2018 | Chuck Ross

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APRIL 11, 2017 : () ...On April 11, 2017, The Washington Post broke a story titled “FBI Obtained FISA warrant to monitor former Trump advisor Carter Page,” which contained detailed information that the FBI had obtained a secret court order to monitor Page, a short-term Trump campaign volunteer, in October 2016.
The story, written by Ellen Nakashima, Devlin Barrett and Adam Entous referred to unnamed U.S. law enforcement and other U.S. officials who told The Washington Post that the FBI and Department of Justice obtained the warrant on Page after “convincing a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court judge that there was probable cause to believe Page was acting as an agent of a foreign power.”
However, in April 2017, former FBI Director James Comey had signed the third renewal on Page, according to reports. In June, Rosenstein would sign off on the fourth FISA warrant renewal application to allow the FBI to continue monitoring all of Page’s communications, which ended in September 2017, after the renewal expired. ---- Damning New Strzok Text to Page: “The Times is Angry With Us About the WP Scoop”, Sara Carter ^ | 9/12/18 | Sara A. Carter