Top FBI lawyer who green-lighted Obamagate surveillance is forced to quit

The last official who signed one of the FISAs still remaining in government

By WND News Services
Published May 31, 2020 at 12:39pm

By Chuck Ross
Daily Caller News Foundation

The FBI lawyer who signed a surveillance order against former Trump aide Carter Page that the Justice Department has deemed invalid submitted his resignation on Friday, the FBI said.

Dana Boente, the FBI general counsel, has recently come under scrutiny over his role in the various investigations against former Trump advisers, including Michael Flynn and Carter Page.

Boente signed one of the four Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) orders against Page. Boente, who served as acting attorney general for the Russia investigation early in the Trump administration, signed the surveillance warrant against Page on April 7, 2017.

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