Democrats weaponized the government against Trump's 2016 campaign.
One of their dirty tricks could be coming to an end.
And the Supreme Court could smack down this abuse of power in the Russian collusion hoax.
Comey's FBI Used a Fake Steele Dossier to Get the FISA Warrant – Then the DOJ Admitted It Had No Probable Cause
Kash Patel walked into FBI headquarters last year and found classified Crossfire Hurricane documents stuffed into burn bags inside a secret room – files the old FBI buried so no one would ever read them.
Carter Page is the man at the center of it all – a Trump 2016 campaign adviser the FBI spied on using fraudulent warrants – and he just asked the Supreme Court to hold James Comey and his crew accountable.
The Justice Department didn't fight Page on the facts – they couldn't.
DOJ's own Inspector General documented 17 significant errors and omissions in the four FISA warrants Comey's FBI used to surveil Page.
Then the DOJ admitted in a sworn court filing that at least two of those warrants had no probable cause – meaning they never should have been issued.
An FBI attorney named Kevin Clinesmith pleaded guilty to altering a CIA email to hide that Page had worked as a CIA source – the exact evidence that should have killed the warrants before they started.
According to Page's complaint, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page devised a plan to leak the existence of the warrants to the Washington Post – the kind of leak that destroys a man's reputation before he can defend himself.
The government admitted the warrant failures in sworn filings.
Then federal courts threw out Page's lawsuit anyway, ruling he filed too late because he should have known he was victimized by April 2017.
One D.C. Circuit judge dissented and said what every honest person was thinking: defendants were escaping liability "not because they are guiltless, but because the Court finds Carter Page's claims time barred."
Fabricate the warrant. Destroy a man's life. Walk free on a technicality.
Carter Page Takes His Crossfire Hurricane Lawsuit to the Supreme Court – and the Stakes Go Way Beyond One Man
Page's lawyers landed at the Supreme Court in December 2025, and the question they're asking is bigger than one man's lawsuit.
Under current law, FISA only lets Americans sue agents who spy on them without any warrant at all – not the officials who lied to a federal judge to get a fraudulent one.
That gap is the loophole that Comey, McCabe, and the rest walked through.
Page's lawyers are asking the Supreme Court to close it – to rule that Americans can sue the officials who fabricated the evidence authorizing the spying in the first place.
The government delayed its required response until mid-March while the justices decide whether to take the case.
Sen. Lindsey Graham read the Durham Report in 2023 and said exactly what needed to be said: "My advice to those unfairly maligned by the bogus Crossfire Hurricane investigation would be to hire a good lawyer and sue the hell out of them."
Page did exactly that – and the courts sent him home on a technicality.
If the justices take this case and rule that FISA victims can sue the officials who fabricated their warrants, it doesn't just matter for Carter Page – it means the next FBI director who wants to weaponize a federal court against a political opponent faces personal financial ruin for doing it.
That's the deterrent Comey never faced.
Court rulings outlast FBI directors, and the legal protection that stops the next Crossfire Hurricane before it starts won't come from burn bags in a secret room.
It'll come from nine justices telling the federal government that Americans can fight back – and making sure the officials who lie to spy on them pay for it personally.
Sources:
- Nicholas Ballasy, "Russiagate quietly reaches Supreme Court as justices asked to allow feds to be sued for FISA abuses," Just the News, February 22, 2026.
- Heritage Foundation, "Warrants to Spy on Trump Campaign Lacked Probable Cause, DOJ Admits," Heritage.org.
- Sen. Chuck Grassley, "Justice Dept. Admitted it Lacked Probable Cause in Carter Page FISAs," Senate.gov.
- Sen. Lindsey Graham, "Graham Statement on the Durham Report," Senate Judiciary Committee, May 2023.
- Kash Patel, "One year later, crime is down and America is safer," Fox News, February 2026.
- Washington Times, "Crossfire Hurricane: A cast of unreliable FBI informants," October 2025.
- Sen. Chuck Grassley, "Newly Declassified Appendix to Durham Report," Senate Judiciary Committee, July 2025
