DOJ settles with Trump 2016 campaign aide Carter Page over Russia probe |
DOJ settles with Trump 2016 campaign aide Carter Page over Russia probe
The Justice Department has settled a lawsuit from a 2016 campaign aide to President Trump who was targeted by surveillance as the FBI investigated Russian interference in the election, a court filing shows.
Carter Page sued in 2020, alleging that a series of errors made by FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) officials when seeking the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court’s permission in 2016 and 2017 to surveil him resulted in “unlawful spying.”
The agencies at the time, probing whether Trump’s 2016 campaign conspired with Russia to influence the election, suspected Page was an agent of Russia. He has denied all wrongdoing and was never charged.
The Trump administration’s notice that a settlement had been reached came in court filings at the Supreme Court, where Page had appealed lower court decisions to throw out his lawsuit because he waited too long to file it. The settlement, reached Tuesday,........