Carter Page compares Senate Intel Committee interactions to torture

Former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page is comparing his experience with the Senate Intelligence Committee to torture.

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Page tweeted early Monday that as the Senate prepares to question CIA director nominee Gina Haspel about her ties to enhanced interrogation techniques, Senate Intelligence Committee members should “consider their own Witch Hunt tactics.”

“I would’ve much preferred waterboarding to their past torture,” he added.

Now Senate Intel Committee has questions about sleep deprivation, confinement boxes and other advanced interrogation techniques? They should consider their own Witch Hunt tactics before harassing others this week.

I would’ve much preferred waterboarding to their past torture.

— Carter Page, Ph.D. (@carterwpage) May 7, 2018

Page elaborated on the comparison in an email to Axios, sending the publication a passage from the U.N. Convention against Torture that defines torture as “severe pain or suffering” in order to punish or obtain information.

“Read the definition in [the U.N. Convention against Torture] … if you had the full details of what they put me through you would probably understand,” Page said in the email.

The former campaign adviser interviewed with both the House and Senate Intelligence committees last year in their investigations into Russia’s election interference. He was also subpoenaed for documents in the probe by both panels.

Page was critical of the Senate committee when he dropped off the documents last year, telling reporters the senators had requested more “irrelevant” documents. He described them as “all” of his business and personal records. 

Page came under scrutiny in the investigations for a trip he took to Moscow during the 2016 campaign. He also reportedly met with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak at the 2016 Republican National Convention.

He also is at the center of GOP allegations of bias against President Trump at the Department of Justice. GOP lawmakers and Page claim that the department improperly used information from the so-called Steele dossier, which mentioned the former campaign adviser, to obtain surveillance warrants on Page.