page at the center. once you get the foot in the door, it can give you a basis to then conduct much broader surveillance. in some cases, agents can search a target s historical data. if you can persuade a judge that there are communications that are out there that are relevant to what you are doing and are readily accessible and, again, linked to the purpose of the surveillance, you can go back. the assembly of the documents. the sculpting of the document is not a one-man operation. jim maxwell is familiar with the fisa process from his three decades at the fbi. we need to know ahead of time whether or not the information in the document is reliable. and it s constantly tested and challenged. [cheers]tl one month before the presidential election, the page application was filed and with three renewals, lasted 11 months. this heavily redacted version shows it relied on the democrat-funded unverified dossier compiled by former british spy christopher steele.