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Input: FBI had an independent basis for investigating  Carter Page : Our view
 Carter Page  speaks in Moscow in December 2016. (Photo: Yuri Kochetkov/epa)
Thatâs the backdrop to this weekendâs release of a Democratic memo countering what amounted to a Republican hit job on the FBI and the Justice Department for their handling of a wiretap of  Carter Page   a former adviser to the Donald Trump campaign.
The Democratsâ memo neatly counters many of the Republican allegations of sinister doings behind the 2016 wiretap of  Page . The release  by the Republican-led House Intelligence Committee  was as welcome as it was belated. True to form  Trumpâs focus was on himself. He railed against the Democratic memo  tweeting that it âis a total political and legal BUST. Just confirms all of the terrible things that were done. SO ILLEGAL!â
That memo  put out more than three weeks ago  accused the FBI of using an explosive dossier written by former British spy Christopher Steele to persuade a judge on the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court  also known as the FISA court  to grant a warrant for a wiretap in 2016 on  Page . The key allegation: The FBI failed to inform the judge that Steele had been hired to do opposition research funded by Hillary Clintonâs campaign.
Thatâs quite a different picture than the one painted by Republicans  who had hyped the  Page  wiretap as the scandal of the century.

Democratic memo shows no wiretap scandal