Carter Page Cites Maroon 5 In Letter To Justice Department

6:40 PM EDT on May 15, 2017

FILE – In this Dec. 12, 2016, file photo, Carter Page, a former foreign policy adviser of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, speaks at a news conference at RIA Novosti news agency in Moscow, Russia. A published report says the FBI obtained a court order to monitor communications of an adviser to then-candidate Donald Trump last summer. The Washington Post reported April 11, 2017 the application to a special court to monitor Carter Page was part of the investigation into potential links between the Republican’s presidential campaign and Russia. The newspaper said its report was based on unnamed law enforcement and other U.S. officials. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, file)

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In the summer of 2016, former Donald Trump adviser Carter Page was being investigated by the FBI on suspicions that he was working with Russian intelligence. Page is now asking the Department Of Justice to release documents detailing their surveillance efforts, and he's quoting Maroon 5 lyrics as part of his argument. "The documents that the US Department of Justice must now provide are crucial to repairing the integrity of your organization following last year's events," Page writes in a letter to the DOJ obtained by CNN. "A song from popular culture accurately describes many of the matters usurping a vast proportion of your time and America's attention given the primary focus of the mainstream media today: 'Like a little girl who cries in the face of a monster that lives in her dreams.'" He helpfully provided a YouTube link to Maroon 5's "Harder To Breathe" in a footnote.