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Missing Texts

 

 

 

Well, isn’t this special:

 

The Justice Department has turned over to Congress additional text messages involving an FBI agent who was removed from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigative team following the discovery of derogatory comments about President Trump.

But the department also said in a letter to lawmakers that its record of messages sent to and from the agent, Peter Strzok, was incomplete because the FBI, for technical reasons, had been unable to preserve and retrieve about five months’ worth of communications.

New text messages highlighted in a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray by Sen. Ron Johnson, the Republican chairman of the Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, are from the spring and summer of 2016 and involve discussion of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server. They reference Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s decision to accept the FBI’s conclusion in that case and a draft statement that former FBI Director James Comey had prepared in anticipation of closing out the Clinton investigation without criminal charges.

The FBI declined to comment Sunday. CBS News Justice Reporter Paula Reid reported Sunday that the Strzok texts have been delivered and are expected to be made public via Congress.

In addition to the communications already made public, the Justice Department on Friday provided Johnson’s committee with 384 pages of text messages, approximately 9,000 texts, exchanged between FBI employees Lisa Page and Strzok.

Strzok, a veteran counterintelligence agent who also worked the Clinton email case, was reassigned last summer from the team investigating ties between Russia and Mr. Trump’s Republican presidential campaign after Mueller learned he had exchanged politically charged text messages — many anti-Trump in nature — with an FBI lawyer also detailed to the group. The lawyer, Lisa Page, left Mueller’s team before the text messages were discovered.

The Justice Department last month produced for reporters and Congress hundreds of text messages that the two had traded before becoming part of the Mueller investigation. Many focused on their observations of the 2016 election and included discussions of the Clinton investigation. Republican lawmakers have contended the communication reveals the FBI and the Mueller team to be politically tainted and biased against Mr. Trump — assertions Wray has flatly rejected.

But, according to the letter, the FBI told the department that its system for retaining text messages sent and received on bureau phones had failed to preserve communications between Strzok and Page over a five-month period between Dec. 14, 2016, and May 7, 2017. DOJ says many FBI-provided Samsung 5 mobile devices did not capture texts during that time. The explanation for the gap was “misconfiguration issues related to rollouts, provisioning, and software upgrades that conflicted with the FBI’s collection capabilities.” 

 

Go here to read the rest.  Two observations.

  1.  Is this high school?  These are two important FBI officials engaged in an adulterous relationship and they seem to have spent a large portion of their time texting each other.  How much of this was done on the Federal dime?  How many other teens in adult bodies are employed by the Federal government?
  2.  Aren’t the missing texts too convenient for words?  The explanation sounds completely phony to me.  Time to subpoena the NSA and see if they have copies of the texts.
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Hmmmmm
Hmmmmm
Monday, January 22, AD 2018 6:59am

This is beyond the pale. Why is this not the biggest story in the land, right now?

Phillip
Phillip
Monday, January 22, AD 2018 7:05am

“This is beyond the pale. Why is this not the biggest story in the land, right now?”

Because the Republicans are big, bad meanies and have shut down the government.

Art Deco
Art Deco
Monday, January 22, AD 2018 7:32am

See the IRS playing hide the ball in 2013 and 2014. The matrix has changed, though. Barack Obama is not the president and neither Eric Holder nor Loretta Lynch are the attorney-general.

I’m not sure what’s up, here. Perhaps Trump is a very lucky man or he has a good sense of when to play his cards.

My nose tells me Christopher Wray smells of the same cologne that Messers. Mueller, Comey, and Rosenstein use. Not confident at all that he’ll conduct a necessary purge.

Art Deco
Art Deco
Monday, January 22, AD 2018 7:35am

That’s 3-dozen texts per workday. smdh

Mary De Voe
Monday, January 22, AD 2018 8:47am

“government of the people, by the people and for the people” strike that. government against the people.

Philip Nachazel
Philip Nachazel
Monday, January 22, AD 2018 8:58am

“Technical reasons”… saith the FBI.
Govt. against the people is right!!
Biggest story of the land…why isn’t it??
MSM is bought and paid for that’s why.

Brian
Brian
Monday, January 22, AD 2018 10:35am

1) Is this high school? – It sure seems like sometimes. The entire Federal Govt (well. maybe not the entirety of the Judicial Branch, but certainly 98% of Congress and 87% of the Executive Branch) seems to have forgotten how to adult.
1A) How much of this was done on the Federal dime? Knowing how govt officials spend their days, close to 99%.
1b) How many other teens in adult bodies are employed by the Federal government? Tens of thousands and getting worse with the influx of millennials.

Mary De Voe
Monday, January 22, AD 2018 12:53pm

These fools foolin’ around have underestimated the constituency.

CAM
CAM
Monday, January 22, AD 2018 9:01pm

No joke..Comey is slated to teach ethics of leadership at William and Mary U. this coming fall.

CAM
CAM
Monday, January 22, AD 2018 9:19pm

“Ethical leadership” not “ethics of leadership” – I misquoted.

Ernst Schreiber
Ernst Schreiber
Tuesday, January 23, AD 2018 10:36am

If this is the way the game is to be played, then it’s well past time to repeal the Civil Service Act.

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