WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has conceded to a secretive intelligence court that the available evidence about Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser wiretapped by the F.B.I. during the Russia investigation, was legally insufficient to justify the last several months of his continued surveillance in 2017. Page as part of the Russia investigation has been a political flash point. Last month, a scathing report by the department’s inspector general found that F.B.I. The FISA court approved an initial 90-day wiretap targeting Mr.

Source: New York Times January 23, 2020 23:26 UTC