Overview
- The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Carter Page’s appeal, leaving intact lower-court rulings that dismissed his remaining claims against former FBI officials as filed too late.
- Page had sued James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Kevin Clinesmith and others over alleged inaccuracies in Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant applications used to surveil him during the 2016 Russia probe.
- The Justice Department inspector general found numerous errors in the FBI’s FISA applications for Page, and a former FBI lawyer, Kevin Clinesmith, pleaded guilty in 2020 to altering an email tied to those applications.
- The Trump administration reached a reported $1.25 million settlement in April that resolved Page’s claims against the government, but the suits against individual officials were dismissed on statute-of-limitations grounds and are now effectively closed.
- Courts rejected Page’s argument that the statute of limitations should start when the government acknowledged unlawful surveillance rather than when reporting first disclosed the operation, a timing dispute central to why his suit was barred.