Earlier this month, we learned that Susan Rice, former national security advisor to President Obama, ordered surveillance of the Trump transition team and lied about it. Now, new information has come to light that the Obama administration gave an additional secret order to the FBI to monitor communications of another Trump advisor.

The Washington Post explains:

The FBI obtained a secret court order last summer to monitor the communications of an adviser to presidential candidate Donald Trump, part of an investigation into possible links between Russia and the campaign, law enforcement and other U.S. officials said.

The FBI and the Justice Department obtained the warrant targeting Carter Page’s communications after convincing a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judge that there was probable cause to believe Page was acting as an agent of a foreign power, in this case Russia, according to the officials.

Then The Post makes this wild claim: “This is the clearest evidence so far that the FBI had reason to believe during the 2016 presidential campaign that a Trump campaign adviser was in touch with Russian agents. Such contacts are now at the center of an investigation into whether the campaign coordinated with the Russian government to swing the election in Trump’s favor.”

And how was Page going to do that exactly? The Post doesn’t bother answering that question. Nor did they attempt to answer the better question: Who, exactly, was it in the Obama administration that issued this secret order? Because they keep denying spying allegations.

Page, a former Navy officer and a Marine intelligence officer, worked as an investment banker, then an oil industry consultant, and then a partner with a Russian natural gas company before joining Trump’s team as a foreign policy advisor. He says being a target is pure politics, according to the report:

“This confirms all of my suspicions about unjustified, politically motivated government surveillance,” Page said. “I have nothing to hide.” He compared surveillance of him to the eavesdropping that the FBI and Justice Department conducted against civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

Page maintains that he never worked with the Russians to help Trump win or cause Hillary Clinton to lose.

“I did nothing that could even possibly be viewed as helping them in any way,” Page said.