Trump Campaign Associate Carter Page Revealed as Target of Russian Spies

[Bethere]

Treason is an ugly thing. We need a special prosecutor.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-campaign-associate-carter-page-revealed-target-russian-spies-n742356

Carter Page, the energy industry consultant who was linked last year to Donald Trump's presidential campaign, is the unnamed man identified in a federal complaint as having met with a Russian intelligence agent four years ago, Page himself revealed on Monday.
Page confirmed his role in the 2013 FBI investigation to NBC News after ABC News (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-campaign-advisor-carter-page-targeted-russian-spies/story?id=46557506)and Buzzfeed (https://www.buzzfeed.com/alimwatkins/a-former-trump-adviser-met-with-a-russian-spy)identified him as a subject called "Male 1" in a criminal complaint filed in 2015 against Evgeny Buryakov, an undercover agent posing as a Russian bank executive in New York.
Buryakov was freed from prison last week a few months short of completing a 30-month sentence and was ordered to be deported to Russia.

[Bo-4]

Russians had Carter pegged as a useful idiot.

I'd remove the "useful" part.

[hanger4]

More nothing-burgers.

"Page was never accused during the Buryakov case of having been successfully recruited or of spying. FBI agents say in the court record that they interviewed "Male-1" in June 2013. During the interview, Page described how he and the man identified as a Russian recruiter, Victor Podobnyy, met periodically and exchanged emails about the energy industry, but nothing in the court document suggests that Page shared any sensitive information with Podobnyy. Rather, it appears they spoke in much the way business executives seeking opportunities do — with Page touting his work ties to the Russian energy firm Gazprom. The Russians were heard laughing, saying Page had no idea they were government agents."

More leaking of unmasked names for political purposes.

[Bethere]

Russians had Carter pegged as a useful idiot.

I'd remove the "useful" part.

I think it is interesting that Paul Manifort ran the convention.