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Sunday, February 11, 2018

Politico: FBI surveillance of Carter Page might have picked up Bannon ---The former Trump campaign adviser says he spoke to Trump aide Steve Bannon about Russia in January 2017, at a time when the FBI had a controversial warrant to monitor Page's communications. (By KYLE CHENEY 02/08/2018 06:45 PM EST)

The headline above is that of Politico, this link, this excerpt:

Bannon hasn't been accused of any impropriety. Neither he nor his lawyer would comment on Page's account of the purported conversation.

Experts in national security law said the FBI would have retained the conversation as evidence [if it was captured in monitoring and] if it seemed pertinent to their investigation into allegations that Trump associates coordinated with the Kremlin — an inquiry that has since widened to focus on whether any officials, including Trump himself, tried to obstruct the probe.

Bannon, once among Trump’s most trusted campaign and White House advisers, is expected to meet soon with special counsel Robert Mueller.

In November testimony to the House Intelligence Committee, Page told lawmakers that Bannon called him sometime shortly before Trump's Jan. 21, 2017 inauguration, asking him to cancel a planned television appearance on that day.

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