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Article by Matt Margolis in "PJMedia":
Fox News reported Thursday morning
that former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page has filed a lawsuit in
federal court against the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the
law firm Perkins Coie for their role in funding the unverified Steele
dossier that was used to justify surveillance against him.
Page's
attorneys described the suit, which was filed in U.S. District Court in
the Northern District of Illinois’ Eastern Division on Thursday, as the
“first of multiple actions in the wake of historic” Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) abuse.
“This
is a first step to ensure that the full extent of the FISA abuse that
has occurred during the last few years is exposed and remedied,” Page's
attorney John Pierce told Fox News. “Defendants and those they worked
with inside the federal government did not and will not succeed in
making America a surveillance state.”
Pierce added, “This is only the first salvo. We will follow the evidence wherever it leads, no matter how high."
Inspector
General Michael Horowitz confirmed that the FBI’s FISA applications to
surveil Page relied on the dossier. He also verified that an FBI lawyer altered evidence to make Carter Page appear to be a Russian agent instead of a CIA source.
It wouldn't be surprising in the least if Page files a suit against
Obama administration officials and others in the FBI as well.
According
to the lawsuit, the DNC, Perkins Coie and partners Marc Elias and
Michael Sussman “used false information, misrepresentations and other
misconduct to direct the power of the international intelligence
apparatus and the media industry against” Page “to further their
political agenda.”
Last week, it was revealed that two FISA warrants against Page were deemed "not valid" because they lacked probable cause.