March 8, 2017
BY ELECTRONIC MAIL AND REGISTERED MAIL
The Honorable Richard Burr and Mark Warner
U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
211 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
Subject: Surveillance of Trump Tower – Evidence for Consideration before U.S. Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence
Dear Senator Burr and Senator Warner:
As continuation of our initial cooperation in resolving the illegal activities committed by Clinton
campaign associates against me and many other Americans during the 2016 election, I wanted to
provide some essential and very timely information. Members of your Committee and many of
your colleagues in the U.S. Congress have been frequently asked by the media and your
constituents this week whether the hostile, potentially criminal surveillance allegedly committed
by members of the last Administration would also be taken into consideration during
forthcoming reviews of the 2016 election. I was especially excited when Senator Burr said that
your Committee, “will follow the evidence where it leads, and we will continue to be guided by
the intelligence and facts as we compile our findings.” 1 In this regard, please bear in mind that
recent news alleges that FISA warrants and other U.S. intelligence community assets had been
leveraged as a political stunt, instigated in large part by the false evidence introduced by Clinton
campaign associates against me.2 Thus, I wanted to immediately provide the Committee with
some highly factual evidence along the lines of what Senator Burr alluded to, in stark contrast to
the extensive false evidence illegally introduced by the Clinton campaign and associates
previously.
On Fox News Channel’s The O'Reilly Factor and other lower-rated television shows, the topic of
whether Trump Tower was under surveillance last year came up in the discussion over recent
nights. Having spoken in favor of some of Mr. Trump’s policies on other Fox News Group
programs during the 2016 campaign as a campaign surrogate3 and given the peaceful relationship
1

Russell Berman, “How Seriously Will Congress Investigate Trump's Wiretap Claim?” The
Atlantic, March 7, 2017. [https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/congress-trumpwiretaps-obama-russia/518730/]
2
Louise Mensch, “EXCLUSIVE: FBI ‘Granted FISA Warrant’ Covering Trump Camp’s Ties
To Russia,” Heat Street, November 7, 2016. [https://heatst.com/world/exclusive-fbi-granted-fisawarrant-covering-trump-camps-ties-to-russia/] Michael S. Schmidt, Matthew Rosenberg, Adam
Goldman and Matt Apuzzo, “Intercepted Russian Communications Part of Inquiry Into Trump
Associates,” New York Times, January 19, 2017.
[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/us/politics/trump-russia-associates-investigation.html];
3
For example: Fox Business, August 16, 2016 [http://finance.yahoo.com/video/jan-brewerobama-not-concerned-224534142.html]; Fox Business, “Varney & Co.,” September 8, 2016.

 I have had with Russian citizens since my years in the U.S. Navy, it may be understandable why
I would be an associated political target if such sick activities had indeed been committed as
alleged in the previously cited media reports. For your information, I have frequently dined in
Trump Grill, had lunch in Trump Café, had coffee meetings in the Starbucks at Trump Tower,
attended events and spent many hours in campaign headquarters on the fifth floor last year. As a
sister skyscraper in Manhattan, my office at the IBM Building (590 Madison Avenue) is literally
connected to the Trump Tower building by an atrium. So if prior media reports may be believed
that surveillance was indeed undertaken against me and other Trump supporters, it should be
essentially deemed as a proven fact that the American people’s concerns that Trump Tower was
under surveillance last year is entirely correct. Please note that my mobile phone is always
turned on and with me 24-hours a day, except when I am airplane-mode during flights. Although
I have been frequently mocked in the media for related reasons, I have a chronic medical
condition that requires me to carry my mobile with me at all times for access to the associated
app. All of this is particularly relevant following recent allegations surrounding surveillance
techniques.4 As an early Trump campaign supporter since June 2015 and a proud member of the
historic Make America Great Again movement, yet another attack against me of this sort may
well have been a de facto attack against the citizen who would eventually become our current
President of the United States. Clearly, such potential abuses should be investigated as part of
your future proceedings.
In an initial step to begin uncovering such potential illegal activities, I asked former Assistant to
the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Lisa Monaco about these apparent
violations of U.S. civil rights at a breakfast meeting on January 10, 2017. I was pressured by a
pro-Obama Administration/Clinton campaign journalist to be quiet as she scolded me to end my
question promptly. However, the full request for information I originally had planned to ask her
is summarized in my intended question transcript:
“During the past half year, partisan political actors in the Clinton campaign and Congress
have pushed the FBI to harass opposition party members through sham investigations
based solely on false allegations that they themselves made up. As reported in the NY
Times, agents at the Bureau saw through these corrupt attempts to abuse power as they
found no basis for such conspiracy theories.5 More recently, other news reports have
stated that the intelligence arm of the FBI has sought a FISA court warrant to pursue
enhanced surveillance methods on U.S. citizens, similarly on baseless allegations.6 Since
so much of the broader wild goose chase has been based on innuendo and unnamed
sources, can you please shed some light on the results of this recent FISA investigation?
4

Roger Cheng and Alfred Ng, “The CIA may be spying on us with our own phones,” CNET,
March 8, 2017. Elizabeth Weise, “They could, but did they? What the CIA leak means for you,”
USA Today, March 7, 2017.
5
Eric Lichtblau and Steven Lee Myers, “Investigating Donald Trump, F.B.I. Sees No Clear
Link to Russia,” New York Times, October 31, 2016.
[https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/us/politics/fbi-russia-election-donald-trump.html]
6
Louise Mensch, “EXCLUSIVE: FBI ‘Granted FISA Warrant’ Covering Trump Camp’s Ties
To Russia,” Heat Street, November 7, 2016. [https://heatst.com/world/exclusive-fbi-granted-fisawarrant-covering-trump-camps-ties-to-russia/]

 Also, since the substantive aspects of the leaked emails in question have further proven
the extreme dishonesty of the Clinton regime, do you believe their complete lack of
integrity has further undermined this political show which was largely undertaken on
their behalf? Thank you.”
Not surprisingly and perhaps related to a potential cover-up, Ms. Monaco’s response to my
truncated question completely avoided the core civil rights violation which may have occurred.7
As previously expressed, I am exceptionally grateful that your Committee and other entities
within the U.S. Congress may now get to the bottom of these and other extensive offenses.
Thank you again for your consideration. I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,

Carter Page, Ph.D.

Copy to:
Representative Devin Nunes
Senator Marco Rubio
Representative Adam Schiff

7

Transcript, “Counterterrorism, Cybersecurity, and Homeland Security,” Meeting at the
Council on Foreign Relations, January 10, 2017.
[http://www.cfr.org/cybersecurity/counterterrorism-cybersecurity-homeland-security/p38642]