The AP also reported Wednesday that at least $1.2 million in payments listed in a handwritten ledger in Ukraine as paid to Manafort were received by his US consulting firm. But he did emphasize that it was not Manafort, whom he said he'd never met or spoken with. No charges have been filed.
The FBI reportedly obtained a warrant last summer from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to monitor the communications of Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump.
By January, eventual White House press secretary Sean Spicer would claim that 'Carter Page is an individual whom the president-elect does not know and was put on notice months ago by the campaign'.
Page said in an interview with the Post that the court order "confirms all of my suspicions about unjustified, politically motivated government surveillance", adding: "I have nothing to hide".
Pressed by Fox News on allegations that he provided energy documents to a Russian intelligence operative, he said, "It was the same energy documents that I quote unquote sent, gave to my students at NYU".
How Page came to be a Trump foreign-policy adviser in the first place remains a point no one on Team Trump has been able to explain. He was not charged as part of that case.
An FBI spokesman did not immediately return a call seeking comment from The AP.
In an earlier statement, Mr. Page insisted he was "happy" the so-called FISA court order authorizing a USA intelligence probe had been made public because it revealed evidence the Obama administration wanted to "suppress dissidents who did not fully support their failed foreign policy".
The FBI received a secret court order in the last summer to oversee the communication of the adviser to the presidential candidate Donald Trump. Though the standard is a high bar to meet, applications are hardly ever denied.
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Earlier this month, it was discovered that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was successfully granted a FISA court order to investigate and keep an eye on Page's communication.
The Trump campaign has sought to minimize Page's role.
The FBI began its probe, which also is examining whether there was collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow, in July. Mr Page himself seems to have been caught between downplaying his own role in the campaign and preserving his personal dignity.
Carter Page is a 1993 graduate of the United States Naval Academy. Ask yourself this, however: how would the Republican Party and its supporters have responded if, while Barack Obama was president, a person he had named as a foreign-policy adviser had been found to be the subject of a FISA warrant? It was unclear, however, whether Page's "he" referred to Clovis or someone else.
Federal officials cited other contacts between Page and Russian operatives in the FISA application, officials told The Post.
Page promoted "closer relations" with Russian Federation while working as a foreign policy advisor to Trump.
Last month Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Sen.
Russian Federation denies the allegations, which Trump also dismisses.
Page, a former Merrill Lynch investment banker who worked out of its Moscow office for three years, now runs Global Energy Capital, a firm focused on energy sectors in emerging markets.
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