"A first step"

In News Thud, Paul Goldberg reports,

Ex Trump campaign advisor Carter Page is suing the DNC over its Steele Dossier that led to the FISA warrant and spying into him.

A declassified FISA Court order declassified last week confirmed that two of the four FISA applications authorized for the FBI to justify surveillance against 2016 Trump campaign advisor Carter Page were “not valid.”

At the time, Loretta Lynch headed the DOJ and James Comey was in charge of the FBI.

One of the false applications was signed by James Comey, the other by Andrew McCabe.

Fox News reports former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page filed a lawsuit Thursday in federal court against the Democratic National Committee, law firm Perkins Coie and its partners tied to the funding of the unverified dossier that served as the basis for highly controversial surveillance warrants against him.

The suit was filed in U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Illinois’ Eastern Division Thursday morning, and was described by his attorneys 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,” attorney John Pierce said Thursday. “Defendants and those they worked with inside the federal government did not and will not succeed in making America a surveillance state.”

He added: “This is only the first salvo. We will follow the evidence wherever it leads, no matter how high. … The rule of law will prevail.”

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