Nadler falsely accused Carter Page of being an agent of a foreign power, i.e. Russia

Ed Morrissey:

Adam Schiff has found himself under belated fire for his response to Devin Nunes’ memo in February 2018, but the House Intelligence chair shouldn’t be alone. When then-chair Nunes wrote that the FBI had abused the FISA warrant process and illegally targeted an American citizen for surveillance, Schiff insisted that he knew that the warrants were legitimate and the FBI had acted in full accordance with the law and procedure. Time and Inspector General Michael Horowitz proved Nunes correct and Schiff wrong, but not just Schiff.

Paul Sperry reminds readers at Real Clear Investigations that Schiff wasn’t the only House Democrat writing memo responses to Nunes. House Judiciary Chair wrote a memo to fellow Democrats accusing Carter Page of being “more likely than not, an agent of a foreign power” and of being part of the Russian intelligence operation targeting the 2016 election. Nadler also asserted that the FBI did nothing wrong in seeking the FISA warrants targeting him (via Instapundit):

Nadler made the accusation in a letter distributed on Capitol Hill in early 2018. In the same document, he also defended the FBI for obtaining a highly invasive FISA warrant to wiretap the Trump aide, Carter Page. The watchdog now concludes that this warrant, renewed three times, was obtained under false pretenses.

The Democratic leader — who’s expected to argue the impeachment case before the Senate next month — dismissed as “a conspiracy theory” the president’s characterization of the FBI spying as an “abuse” of the government’s surveillance powers. …

His letter, which was leaked to the media and assisted a campaign to discredit the GOP-led report, asserted that Page conspired with the Kremlin during the 2016 election, and that the FBI was justified in spying on him.

“Carter Page was, more likely than not, an agent of a foreign power,” Nadler claimed. “The Russian government waged a massive campaign to discredit our election. Carter Page appears to have played a role in that effort.”

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None of what Nadler accused Page of was true and he should have known it was not true.  The same goes for Schiff who was trying to refute the correct Nunes memo about the FISA abuse.  Page should consider consulting an attorney about a libel suit against these two.  Both either knew or should have known through the exercise of reasonable care that what they were saying was not true.  They told these lies in the service of a coup attempt against the President.