Will FBI recover missing texts?

[Hervé]

Will FBI recover missing texts?

I guess it depends on which FBI is going to be left standing...

A massive scandal is brewing at the FBI

Michael Goodwin New York Post
Tue, 23 Jan 2018 21:37 UTC

James Comey, Robert Mueller and Peter Strzok © AP; Ron Sachs/CNP

During the financial crisis, the federal government bailed out banks it declared "too big to fail." Fearing their bankruptcy might trigger economic Armageddon, the feds propped them up with taxpayer cash.

Something similar is happening now at the FBI, with the Washington wagons circling the agency to protect it from charges of corruption. This time, the appropriate tag line is "too big to believe."

Yet each day brings credible reports suggesting there is a massive scandal involving the top ranks of America's premier law enforcement agency. The reports, which feature talk among agents of a "secret society" and suddenly missing text messages, point to the existence both of a cabal dedicated to defeating Donald Trump in 2016 and of a plan to let Hillary Clinton skate free in the classified email probe.

If either one is true - and I believe both probably are - it would mean FBI leaders betrayed the nation by abusing their powers in a bid to pick the president.

More support for this view involves the FBI's use of the Russian dossier on Trump that was paid for by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. It is almost certain that the FBI used the dossier to get FISA court warrants to spy on Trump associates, meaning it used the opposition research of the party in power to convince a court to let it spy on the candidate of the other party - likely without telling the court of the dossier's political link.

Even worse, there is growing reason to believe someone in President Barack Obama's administration turned over classified information about Trump to the Clinton campaign.

As one former federal prosecutor put it, "It doesn't get worse than that." That prosecutor, Joseph ­diGenova, believes Trump was correct when he claimed Obama aides wiretapped his phones at Trump Tower.

These and other elements combine to make a toxic brew that smells to high heaven, but most Americans don't know much about it. Mainstream media coverage has been sparse and dismissive and there's a blackout from the same Democrats obsessed with Russia, Russia, Russia.

Partisan motives aside, it's as if a scandal of this magnitude is more than America can bear - so let's pretend there's nothing to see and move along.

But, thankfully the disgraceful episode won't be washed away, thanks to a handful of congressional Republicans, led by California Rep. Devin Nunes, chairman of the House's Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. After he accused the FBI of stonewalling in turning over records, the bureau relented, at least partially.

The result was clear evidence of bias against Trump by officials charged with investigating him and Clinton. Those same agents appear to have acted on that bias to tilt the election to Clinton.

In one text message, an agent suggests that Attorney General Loretta Lynch knew while the investigation was still going on that the FBI would not recommend charges against Clinton.

How could she know unless the fix was in?

All roads in the explosive developments lead to James Comey, whose Boy Scout image belied a sinister belief that he, like his infamous predecessor J. Edgar Hoover, was above the law.

It is why I named him J. Edgar Comey last year and wrote that he was "adept at using innuendo and leaks" to let everybody in Washington know they could be the next to be investigated.

It was in the office of Comey's top deputy, Andrew McCabe, where agents discussed an "insurance policy" in the event that Trump won. Reports indicated that the Russia-collusion probe was that insurance policy.

The text was from Peter Strzok, the top investigator on the Trump case, and was sent to Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer and also his mistress.

"I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy's office - that there's no way he gets elected - but I'm afraid we can't take that risk. It's like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you're 40 . . . " Strzok wrote.

It is frightening that Strzok, who called Trump "an idiot," was the lead investigator on both the Clinton and Trump cases.

After these messages surfaced, special counsel Robert Mueller removed Strzok and Page from his probe, though both still work at the FBI.

Strzok, despite his talk of an "insurance policy" in 2016, wrote in May of 2017 that he was skeptical Mueller's probe would find anything on Trump because "there's no big there there."

Talk about irony. While Dems and the left-wing media already found Trump guilty of collusion before Mueller was appointed, the real scandal might be the conduct of the probers themselves.

Suspicions are hardly allayed by the fact that the FBI says it can't find five months of messages between Strzok and Page, who exchanged an estimated 50,000 messages overall. The missing period - Dec. 14, 2016 through May 17, 2017 - was a crucial time in Washington.

There were numerous leaks of classified material just before and after Trump's inauguration on Jan. 20.

And the president fired Comey last May 9, provoking an intense lobbying effort for a special counsel, which led to Mueller's appointment on May 19.

Jeff Sessions, the attorney general, has emerged from his hidey hole to notice that the FBI has run amok, and said Monday he would "leave no stone unturned" to find the five months of missing texts.

Fine, but the House is racing ahead of him. Nunes has prepared a four-page memo, based on classified material that purportedly lays out what the FBI and others did to corrupt the election.

A movement to release the memo is gaining steam, but Congress says it might take weeks. Why wait? Americans can handle the truth, no matter how big it is.

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Someone's lying: FBI says five months of texts 'lost', yet Inspector-General Horowitz says his office received them in August

[mojo]

... really worried for President Trump's safety. Just like JFK was an enemy of the deep state we have to be concerned about how Trump fits the same mold. The secret society met off-site to conspire against Trump and that is very serious.

from Ron Johnson R-Wis, “I have heard from somebody who has talked to our committee that there is a group of individuals in the FBI who were holding secret, off-site meetings,” Johnson said Wednesday. “I think there are indications there were a number of high-level FBI officials that were holding secret meetings off-site.”

https://pjmedia.com/trending/sen-ron...ings-off-site/

[Cidersomerset]

They seem to have found some of them , probably hoping to dampen
this down a bit. Not surprised CIANN are first to report this.....


DOJ watchdog: Missing FBI texts recovered

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ax4dFpoKRbs

Published on 25 Jan 2018
In a letter to lawmakers, DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz wrote
that this week his office was able to recover texts sent between FBI
officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page over a 5 month span from December 2016 to May 2017.

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The anchor was trying to trip him up but failed , as they have been doing with
others as they are very anti Trump like MSNBC. I posted this on the Russia gate
thread earlier...

Gowdy: FBI agents should explain ‘secret society’ text

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5gWl8suYuY

Published on 25 Jan 2018
Conservatives have seized on the exchange between FBI lawyer Lisa Page and FBI
agent Peter Strzok, which was sent after the 2016 presidential election, as potential
evidence of an anti-Trump bias at the FBI. Strzok was a member of the FBI team
investigating Hillary Clinton's email server and, later, a member of Robert Mueller's
special counsel operation looking into Russia's attempted interference in the 2016
election.

[Cidersomerset]

DOJ watchdog says missing FBI texts recovered using "forensic tools"

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZsNefYuRtdc

Published on 25 Jan 2018
The inspector general at the Department of Justice has revealed that it has
recovered at least a portion of missing text messages from FBI devices using
"forensic tools," according to a letter to Congress obtained by CBS News.
CBS News' justice reporter Paula Reid reports for CBSN.

[mojo]

Fortunately Hillary did not got elected because we would never have heard about these happenings. Even today the top levels of DOJ & FBI are being resistant to transparency. They still dont want the GOP memo released. The logical conclusion is that top level managers kept Obama in the loop and they did not act without his consent. Although I can't imagine tptb reveal all because in their minds it would destroy public confidence. But still the best thing is for the people to hear about it. I didn't think drain the swamp included so many critters.

[norman]

I read it's TXTs FROM the missing 5 months, not all of them.

https://www.infowars.com/missing-tex...overed-by-doj/


Roger Stone reported today that Obama "got himself lawyered up " yesterday. Obama must have had feelers in the DOJ who tipped him off that he was going to need them sharpish.


I actually think all this isn't going to shut the die-hard 'lib-tards' up at all. I think it's going to drive them even more crazy, if that's possible.

[Gemma13]

https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-...s-strzok-page/

JUDICIAL WATCH SUES FOR TEXT MESSAGES OF FBI' STRZOK AND PAGE

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information (FOIA) lawsuit against the Justice Department for text messages and other records of FBI official Peter Strzok and FBI attorney Lisa Page (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-00154)).

Judicial Watch filed suit after the Justice Department failed to respond to a December 4, 2017, FOIA request for:

All records of communications, including but not limited to, emails, text messages and instant chats, between FBI official Peter Strozk and FBI attorney Lisa Page;
All travel requests, travel authorizations, travel vouchers and expense reports of Peter Strozk;
All travel requests, travel authorizations, travel vouchers and expense reports of Lisa Page.

The time frame for the requested records is February 1, 2015 to the present.

The text messages are of public interest because Strzok and Page were key investigators in the Clinton email and Trump Russia collusion investigations. Strzok was reportedly removed from the Mueller investigative team in August and reassigned to a human resources position after it was discovered that he and a FBI lawyer, Lisa Page, who worked for FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, and with whom Strzok was carrying on an extramarital affair, exchanged pro-Clinton and anti-Trump text messages.

Strzok reportedly oversaw the FBI’s interviews of former National Security Adviser, General Michael Flynn; changed former FBI Director James Comey’s language about Hillary Clinton’s actions regarding her illicit email server from “grossly negligent” to “extremely careless;” played a lead role in the FBI’s interview of Clinton; and is suspected of being responsible for using the unverified dossier to obtain a FISA warrant in order to spy on President Trump’s campaign.

Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, revealed in a letter dated January 20 that the FBI claimed it is unable to preserve text messages for a five-month period between December 14, 2016, and May 17, 2017, due to “misconfiguration issues” with FBI-issued phones used by Strzok and Page. The missing messages span dates between the presidential transition and the launch of Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, where both Strzok and Page were employed.

The Strzok-Page text messages are potentially responsive to several pending Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuits, but the FBI has yet to produce any of the records, explain the missing records to the courts, or otherwise be forthcoming about these newly disclosed materials.

“I don’t believe for one minute that the Strzok-Page texts are really missing,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The IRS told us that Lois Lerner’s emails were ‘missing,’ and we forced them to admit they existed and deliver them to us. The State Department hid the Clinton emails but our FOIA lawsuits famously blew open that cover-up. We fully intend to get the ‘missing’ Strzok and Page documents. And it is shameful the FBI and DOJ have been playing shell games with these smoking gun text messages. Frankly, FBI Director Wray needs to stop the stonewalling”


LODGED 24 JANUARY 2018
https://www.judicialwatch.org/docume...mplaint-00154/

[Cidersomerset]

This was posted yesterday before they announced they found some of the texts....

Inside Judicial Watch: The Case of the Missing Strzok/Page Texts

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=GZP-rqTPRzc

Published on 25 Jan 2018

**UPDATE: It is being reported that the missing text messages have been discovered.**

In this week's edition of "Inside Judicial Watch," host Jerry Dunleavy joins JW Director
of Investigations & Research Chris Farrell to discuss the mystery surrounding missing
text messages between FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok and FBI attorney Lisa Page.

The text messages are of public interest because Strzok and Page were key investigators
in the Clinton email and Trump Russia collusion investigations. Strzok was reportedly
removed from the Mueller investigative team in August and reassigned to a human
resources position after it was discovered that he and Page, who worked for FBI Deputy
Director Andrew McCabe, and with whom Strzok was carrying on an extramarital affair,
exchanged pro-Clinton and anti-Trump text messages.

Strzok reportedly oversaw the FBI’s interviews of former National Security Adviser, General
Michael Flynn; changed former FBI Director James Comey’s language about Hillary Clinton’s
actions regarding her illicit email server from “grossly negligent” to “extremely careless;”
played a lead role in the FBI’s interview of Clinton; and is suspected of being responsible for
using the unverified dossier to obtain a FISA warrant in order to spy on President Trump’s campaign.

Judicial Watch sued for any and all types of communication between Strzok and Page, including
other pertinent records.

Read about our lawsuit here: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-r...


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CNN and MSNBC are dedicated to oppose Trump at all costs , and is why
its hard to post many of their articles for balance as they are not.

Anatomy of a (debunked) conspiracy theory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5RHTpTO3bA

Published on 25 Jan 2018
CNN's Anderson Cooper discusses GOP lawmakers' reaction to the released text
messages exchanged between two senior FBI officials after the 2016 election.

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Every time Trump has a positive headline it is followed by negative ones...
Typical CNN exchange which would be better if they did it to both sides..

Scaramucci VS Chris Cuomo CNN HEATED Interview over President Trump
Ordered Mueller Fired in June
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdIV5w64baE
Published on 25 Jan 2018
Anthony Scaramucci VS Chris Cuomo CNN HEATED Interview over NYT Report of
President Trump Ordered to Fire Robert Mueller in June

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For however positive Hannity and other are Cuomo and others on CNN & MCNS
spins negative...

Cuomo: Clearest picture of Trump's intent to obstruct

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePOJK1GLAPE
Published on 25 Jan 2018
CNN's Chris Cuomo breaks down reporting from the New York Times that President
Donald Trump called for special counsel Robert Mueller's firing last June.

[Cidersomerset]

Fox is on the whole are very pro Trump....I could pick articles/segments from most
days and have on other threads since Trumps election , the Dems and mainstream
have been spoiling this administration since day one , which would be fine if it was
not so bias especially from the mainstream.

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Trey Gowdy on recovered FBI texts

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y6dl-h1AXVE

Published on 25 Jan 2018
House Oversight Committee chairman sounds off on the Department of Justice
has recovered missing text messages between anti-Trump FBI officials Peter
Strzok and Lisa Page, the need for safeguards and FBI scrutiny and the call to
release the memo on alleged FISA surveillance abuses. #Tucker

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Sebastian Gorka: FISA memo is the tip of the iceberg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywUxIHSwyGk
Published on 25 Jan 2018
Dr. Sebastian Gorka and Herman Cain speak out on 'Hannity.'

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Mueller probe may blow apart thanks to recovered texts: Tom Fitton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-U0M7-j6bE
Published on 25 Jan 2018
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton on why he believes the DOJ needs to
release the recovered 50,000 missing text messages.

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Newt Gingrich talks 'America First' in Davos, FBI texts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5BToPEcHjQ
Published on 25 Jan 2018
Fox News contributor weighs in on 'Fox & Friends.'

[norman]

erm . . . on that other boot dropping, . . . The FISA memo is out:

https://www.infowars.com/memo-released-developing/



Downloadable from here:
https://www.scribd.com/document/3705...emo#from_embed