@coldjoint,
Quote coldjoint:
Quote:For two years? The whole thing is actually laughable.
I don't think it's remarkable the FBI was checking up on Carter Page for two years after it was found he was best buddies with a Kremlin spy ring that got busted, (one of the members jailed for espionage, the other two had diplomatic immunity and returned to Russia).
Carter Page has been involved in Russian affairs for decades. He's been hanging out with Russians and going to Russia for a long time. They might not have been able to see anything specifically he did illegal with this particular group of Russian spies he became close with, but the GOP seems upset that the US was keeping tabs on Page to see if he was up to anything else with some other Russian operatives.
If the US
wasn't keeping a watch on Page after it came out how close he had become with Kremlin espionage agents, they would be derelict in their duty. They are supposed to catch the bad guys, remember? I guess conservatives are so caught up in Trump's Putin-worship that they no longer think of Kremlin agents as "the bad guys".