Carter Page Sues the Justice Department And The FBI for violating “his Constitutional and other legal rights in connection with unlawful surveillance and investigation of him"

Former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page sued the Justice Department, the FBI, and multiple officials involved in Crossfire Hurricane on Friday for $75 million, saying that he was the victim of “unlawful spying” as part of the government’s investigation of the Trump campaign.

Page asserts in the lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., on Friday, that investigators violated “his Constitutional and other legal rights in connection with unlawful surveillance and investigation of him by the United States Government.”

“Dr. Page was targeted because of his lawful association with the 2016 Presidential campaign of Donald Trump,” Page’s complaint says.

The complaint centers on four applications the FBI submitted to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to surveil Page as part of Crossfire Hurricane, a counterintelligence investigation opened in July 2016 into possible links between the Trump campaign and Russia.

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A Justice Department inspector general report released on Dec. 9, 2019, found that the FBI made at least 17 “significant” errors in applications submitted to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The Justice Department has deemed two of the four surveillance orders to be invalid based on the inspector general’s findings.

In a hearing two days after the report was released, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham encouraged Page to take legal action against the government, saying he hoped the former Trump aide “sues the hell out of” the FBI and DOJ.

Page, a former Navy officer, is suing James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, and Lisa Page—all former FBI officials who oversaw Crossfire Hurricane.

He is also suing former FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith, FBI supervisory special agent Joseph Pientka, FBI counterintelligence agent Stephen Somma, and FBI supervisory intelligence analyst Brian Auten.

The inspector general report said that many of the errors uncovered in Crossfire Hurricane involved the FBI’s handling of the Steele dossier.

Christopher Steele, the dossier author, alleged that Page was a key player in the Trump campaign’s “well-developed conspiracy of cooperation” with the Kremlin.

Steele, who compiled the dossier on behalf of the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, alleged that Page met secretly with two Kremlin insiders in Moscow in July 2016.

Page has vehemently denied meeting with the Kremlin officials. The Special Counsel’s Office said investigators found no evidence that Page or any other Trump advisers conspired with the Russian government, contrary to...

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