Carter Page issued a lengthy response on Monday to a Senate Intelligence Committee leaders' statement questioning whether he was still willing to cooperate with the panel's investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election.
'Outrageous' and 'groundless': It looks like Carter Page is not going to give the Senate what it wants
Carter Page issued a lengthy response to a Senate Intelligence Committee leaders' statement questioning whether he was still willing to cooperate with the panel's investigation.
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"For that to happen, Mr. Page must supply the requested documents to the Committee."
Page, an early foreign-policy adviser to President Donald Trump's campaign, volunteered to be interviewed by the committee in March. But he said Monday that
disgraceful" in both "spirit and substance." He added that being asked to respond to it amounted to "forced labor."
"Please note that I purchased 200 American Depository Receipts of PJSC Gazprom in June 2008 for $5,909.00," Page wrote on Monday. "I divested my stake in August 2016 for $798.98 – a net loss of $5,110.02."
he has "remained a principal target of the Clinton/Obama regime’s surrogates including those in Congress," referring to former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama.
"As a perceived weaker party, I have also been effectively and falsely characterized as a narcissistic loony tune amidst other far worse false accusations by the Clinton/Obama regime," Page wrote.
He said later that Clinton and Obama had committed "abysmal human rights" violations against him during the 2016 election.
"Finally moving beyond the dark cloud of the civil rights abuses which occurred last year might help encourage capable leaders and essential allies such as Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to again feel safe in visiting the United States," Page wrote.
Duterte'sFilipino news site Rappler