From The New York Times:

“According to the memo, officials laid out a “multipronged rationale” for spying on Mr. Page, including his past interactions with Russian spies, and informed the court of a counterintelligence investigation then underway into the Kremlin’s covert influence campaign.

“Mr. Page, a former investment banker based in Moscow, had been on the F.B.I.’s radar for years, long before his work with Mr. Trump. The Democratic memo reveals that the F.B.I. interviewed Mr. Page as late as March 2016 about his contacts with Russian intelligence agents, the same month Mr. Trump added him to his foreign policy advisory team.

The information from Mr. Steele was about ‘specific activities in 2016’ by Mr. Page, including suspected meetings with close associates of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia during a July trip to Moscow, the Democrats said.

“The document says that the bureau did disclose to the court that it had made use of information that was gathered through politically motivated means and quotes from the application itself.”

Below, first of ten pages. The entire document is available online.

 

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A little sweet, sand dollars on the deck: