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May 29, 2017

BY ELECTRONIC MAIL

The Honorable K. Michael Conaway and Adam Schiff


U.S. House of Representatives
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI)
Capitol Visitor Center HVC-304
US Capitol Building
Washington, DC 20515

Subject: Follow-up response to continued false information

Dear Congressman Conaway and Congressman Schiff:

I am writing to update you in the aftermath of recent emerging developments and reiterate my
eagerness to have an open meeting with you at your earliest convenience. I have learned from
your Committee staff on this Memorial Day holiday that I might not be immediately afforded the
opportunity to address the false or misleading testimony by James Comey, John Brennan, et al,
as per our previously scheduled appointment for next week. In the interest of finally providing
the American people with some accurate information at long last, I hope that we can proceed
with this straight dialogue soon. In the interim, I wanted to promptly provide you with some
relevant information in this letter.

The urgency of delivering truthful facts really does matter, and this exigent necessity has only
seemed to grow in recent days. But as per a CNN report last Friday: Now, according to one
government official, in classified briefings, Comey told lawmakers that he was afraid the
information would drop and undermine the investigation, but he didn't tell lawmakers that he
doubted the accuracy of the information even in a classified setting. According to sources close
to Comey, the FBI felt that the validity of the information really didn't matter1

If this report is true, it would offer more evidence of the disturbing patterns that defined the
serious mismanagement of Obama Administration appointees assigned to the U.S. Intelligence
Community (IC) including Mr. Comey as well as John Brennan and others. Throughout recent
months, it has remained unfortunate that these individuals have further contributed to the
fictional narrative regarding last years events during many hours of misleading testimony before
your Committee on national television. To continue perpetuating an investigation without basis
in fact for political purposes has no place in a democracy committed to the rule of law. Neither
does the relentless slandering of law-abiding citizens like myself who have been denied their
civil and political rights throughout this ongoing barrage of false information that has persisted
as a consequence of the Clinton-Obama-Comey regimes misdeeds for almost a year now.

1
CNN transcripts, May 26, 2017: CNN NEWSROOM: Comey Acted on Russian Intel. Aired
14:00 ET. [http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1705/26/cnr.05.html]
Given the continuation of smoke and mirrors tactics seen in recent days, I would also urge the
Committee to investigate the growing evidence of collusion between Clinton campaign
associates, Comey and other former Obama Administration officials. As you are probably
aware, this began with the well-orchestrated pressure they sought to exert on the FBI to have me
investigated last summer2 in the immediate wake of preliminary falsehoods from the 2016
Dodgy Dossier.3 As the foremost leader of the Clinton-Obama-Comey regimes illicit activities
via representative cutouts and other transnational criminal associates in 2016, Mrs. Clinton gave
the latest in a series of sarcastic and divisive speeches in Massachusetts on Friday.

Perhaps unconsciously, this commencement address highlighted some of her campaigns own
clear elements of interference in the 2016 election as preliminarily uncovered so far.4 Her
address thus provided an extraordinary self-parody given the subsequent fake headlines
surrounding incorrect obstruction of justice innuendo which she once again attempted to
enflame even further. In a historically inaccurate statement about a former President who was
not impeached, she suggested that her classmates in 1969, Were furious about the past
presidential election, of a man whose presidency would eventually end in disgrace with his
impeachment for obstruction of justice.5 In a current context and to the contrary, it is worth
bearing in mind that false evidence6 is a component element of obstruction of justice. Proof
regarding such crimes by the Obama Administration should inevitably be forthcoming in any
alleged 2016 FISA warrant application targeting me, once that is released for public review.

When Mrs. Clinton reminisced last Friday that, We didnt trust government, authority figures
in large part thanks to years of heavy casualties and dishonest official statements about Vietnam,

2
Minority Leader Harry Reid letter to Director Comey, August 27, 2016.
[https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3035844/Reid-Letter-to-Comey.pdf]
3
The full text of which was subsequently revealed to the public in January 2017. See Ken
Bensinger, Miriam Elder and Mark Schoofs, These Reports Allege Trump Has Deep Ties To
Russia, BuzzFeed News, January 10, 2017. [https://www.buzzfeed.com/kenbensinger/these-
reports-allege-trump-has-deep-ties-to-russia]
4
Ellen Nakashima, Devlin Barrett and Adam Entous, FBI obtained FISA warrant to monitor
Trump adviser Carter Page, Washington Post, April 12, 2017, p. A1.
[https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-obtained-fisa-warrant-to-monitor-
former-trump-adviser-carter-page/2017/04/11/620192ea-1e0e-11e7-ad74-
3a742a6e93a7_story.html] Matthew Rosenberg and Matt Apuzzo, Court Approved Wiretap on
Trump Campaign Aide Over Russia Ties, New York Times, April 12, 2017.
[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/12/us/politics/carter-page-fisa-warrant-russia-trump.html]
5
Emily Shugerman, Hillary Clinton hints Donald Trump will be 'impeached for obstruction of
justice' in unprecedented attack on president, Independent, May 26, 2017.
[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-impeachment-latest-
hillary-clinton-attack-nixon-wellesley-commencement-speech-address-a7758311.html]
6
18 U.S. Code 1519 - Destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in Federal
investigations and bankruptcy, Legal Information Institute, Cornell University.
[https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1519]

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and deep differences over civil rights7, she cut to the very core of analogously disastrous
hawkish policies that plagued her years in the Obama Administration, which led to my friend
Chris Stevens unnecessary death and now risk similar senseless hostility with Russia. Of even
more direct relevance to HPSCIs current proceedings, this quote also highlights the illicit abuses
that characterized her 2016 campaign including my alleged FISA warrant. Your Committees
questions from the framework for analysis8 drive directly to this latter point and I hope we can
begin resolving this soon.

In light of the apparent disregard for truthful information at the foundation of the FBIs related
investigations last year, it has grown more important than ever that I be afforded the opportunity
to explain the truth. In particular, regarding all of the associated nonsensical lies stated
specifically against me during the recent testimony by various senior Obama Administration
appointees. For this reason, I hope that my future testimony might be allowed. On closely
connected themes, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan introduced the End of the Cold War Act in
1991 which suggested the now seemingly inconceivable concept that the, Criminalization of
opinion [is] inconsistent with the fundamental American principles of free speech and the
competition of ideas.9 A quarter of a century later, this is precisely what was attempted by the
Clinton-Obama-Comey regime in the 2016 election.

Amidst these prior substantive debates in the U.S. Congress regarding the future of the IC,
former member of your Committee Congressman Bud Shuster warned in 1991 about, The
specter of cooking intelligence to support a preconceived policy. The separation of
intelligence-gathering and foreign policy is a fundamental principle.10 Last years deep dive by
Obama Administration appointees into unprecedented domestic political intelligence operations
took things much further by unsuccessfully attempting to burn the very heart of our democracy.
As of yet, the lies previously advanced by Comey have had no occasion for serious vetting by
those wrongly accused.

The insights developed during this prior substantive structural debate in the U.S. Congress at the
end of the first Cold War relate directly to HPSCI Investigation Question 3 from your
Committees framework for analysis today: What was the U.S. Governments response to these
Russian active measures and what do we need to do to protect ourselves and our allies in the

7
What did Clinton really say at Wellesley? We annotated her speech, Boston Globe, May
26, 2017. [https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/05/26/read-full-transcript-hillary-clinton-
speech-wellesley-college/tLSBdMVUpxw1Yay6wOD2bL/story.html]
8
Devin Nunes and Adam Schiff, Intelligence Committee Chairman, Ranking Member
Establish Parameters for Russia Investigation, House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence website, March 1, 2017.
[http://intelligence.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=767]
9
Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, S.236 - End of the Cold War Act of 1991, 102nd Congress
(1991-1992), Library of Congress, January 17, 1991. [https://www.congress.gov/bill/102nd-
congress/senate-bill/236/text]
10
Bud Shuster, American Intelligence: Do We Still Need the C.I.A.?; Independence Means
Integrity, N.Y. Times, May 19, 1991. [http://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/19/opinion/dialogue-
american-intelligence-we-still-need-cia-independence-means-integrity.html]

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future?11 Given last years extensive human rights abuses against myself and others as recently
revealed with allegations of the Obama Administrations illegitimate FISA warrant, our future
meeting will offer an essential step towards accurately addressing that question.

As a veteran of the Ford, Nixon, Johnson and Kennedy Administrations, the retirement of Daniel
Patrick Moynihan, Ph.D., in 2001 may have potentially marked the end of intellectual rigor and
bipartisanship if only the single-dimensional loyal appointees of the Obama Administration are
allowed to have their voices heard before your Committee. The time has come to restore the
higher standards Senator Moynihan kept with an analytic seriousness that facilitated his
questioning of conventional wisdom, thereby assessing Russia more accurately than the
mainstream in the past.12 Such an antidote today may offer a welcome respite, following the
recent long line of public presenters before your Committee who know close to nothing about the
modern realities of Russia or its people. Given my decades of direct work in and research
regarding that country, I am used to the extraordinary bigotry and xenophobia which has recently
escalated to fevered proportions today at the behest of the Clinton-Obama-Comey regime and its
devotees as well as including much of the mainstream media. In light of the historic levels that
this hysteria has now reached, I believe that I may be uniquely positioned to help clear up some
of the severe misunderstandings that unwitting Obama Administration officials such as Comey
have showered upon your Committee of late.

The continued avoidance of clarity in the face of these unrelenting lies about me and others could
pose a truly serious threat to the future of our democracy and eventually welcome further
instances of severe civil rights violations by an illegitime regime in Washington as previously
seen with their unsuccessful attempts to rig the 2016 election. Thank you again for your
consideration, and I hope to have the opportunity to restart our dialogue in person within the very
near future during testimony before a public Committee hearing.

Sincerely,

Carter Page, Ph.D.

11
Devin Nunes and Adam Schiff, Intelligence Committee Chairman, Ranking Member
Establish Parameters for Russia Investigation, House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence website, March 1, 2017.
[http://intelligence.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=767]
12
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, The Peace Dividend, New York Review of Books, June 28, 1990.
[http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1990/06/28/the-peace-dividend/] Daniel Patrick Moynihan,
Pandaemonium: Ethnicity in International Politics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.

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