Headline: Nation Stunned That FBI Agents Have Political Views, Too
These guys were removed from the investigation upon discovery of the texts. Nothing suggests any tampering and there are already multiple indictments and convictions. It's not a story because it affected nothing and was handled appropriately.
Do you think this is the first time a federal worker has held political beliefs?
Hold on man.....there is a MASSIVE difference in holding a particular political POV, but it's something completely different when you're texting your mistress about a conversation within the Deputy Director of the FBI's office about an "insurance plan" in the event Trump is elected. That was our "Head of National Counter-Intelligence". And this conversation happened in the FBI's second most powerful office. How much more would you need to start feeling a bit queezy about where this is headed....?
This wasn't some low level Joe Schmo down the hall talking shit. This guy was the lead investigator into Hillary's email probe, and selected by Mueller as one of his 16 agents to investigate Trump.
To act as if this is nothing, is simply absurd on so many levels. Again man...."HEAD of COUNTER INTELLIGENCE".
“I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office — that there’s no way [Trump] gets elected — but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk,” FBI counterintelligence official Peter Strzok wrote in a cryptic text message to Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer and his mistress.
“It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40,” Strzok wrote in the text, dated Aug. 15, 2016.
“Maybe you’re meant to stay where you are because you’re meant to protect the country from that menace,” Page wrote.
“I can protect our country at many levels, not sure if that helps,” Strzok replied.
Both of these people, selected to the "elite" crew picked by Mueller. I'm not even sure how that happens? Like what are the odds?
Lets take it one step further.....for 500 points, name the agency that opened an investigation into Trump and his campaign in late August?
If you guessed the Department of Counter Intelligence, you'd be correct!!!!
And while he was praising Clinton, Strzok was working at the center of the investigation into the Democrat’s use of a private email server. He emailed Clinton on July 2, 2016 — three days before then-FBI Director James Comey cleared her of criminal wrongdoing.
In the weeks before and after his politically-charged texts, Strzok interviewed several Clinton aides who sent and received classified emails that ended up on Clinton’s email server.
Two of those aides were Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills. Both appear to have provided misleading responses to questions about their awareness of Clinton’s use of a private server. But despite their false statements, neither Abedin nor Mills were charged with lying to the FBI.
That’s in contrast with another Strzok interview subject: Retired lieutenant general Michael Flynn.
Strzok interviewed the then-national security adviser at the White House on Jan. 24 regarding Flynn’s conversations during the presidential transition period with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
Flynn pleaded guilty earlier this month to lying to the FBI during that interview.
Strzok was picked to oversee the Russia investigation at the end of July 2016, several weeks after the Clinton probe ended.
If you'd like to discuss how insanely fucked up it is that Bruce and Nellie Ohr are entangled in this now, let's spark that one up too.....also outrageous. It only came out this week, 5th in command at Justice Department had a wife working for Fusion GPS and Bruce was going renegade setting up private meetings with Glenn Simpson. The same Glenn Simpson, mind you, who was pushing Russian propaganda for the Kremlin and paying journalists to run stories favorable to his clients.
This whole thing is so fucked beyond belief and people are just glancing at it like "who gives a shit?". It's kinda sad IMO. The abuse of power looks outrageous....OUTRAGEOUS.
