As Twitchy told you earlier, the OIG report on the FBI’s Hillary investigation included this text message exchange between FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page:
“Several FBI employees Who played critical roles in the investigation sent political messages,” IG report says.
It cites Lisa Page text to Peter Strzok: “(Trump’s) not ever going to become president, right? Right?!”
Strzok: “No. No he’s not. We’ll stop it.”
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) June 14, 2018
Needless to say, that exchange has been raising a lot of questions. Among them: Why was Strzok’s reply to Page not revealed until now?
Interesting because this text is not among the thousands that have been released so far https://t.co/uQ8EJ13GF0
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) June 14, 2018
https://twitter.com/SohrabAhmari/status/1007277673918488576
https://twitter.com/esaagar/status/1007285280494276608
https://twitter.com/SohrabAhmari/status/1007278139716849665
https://twitter.com/SohrabAhmari/status/1007279078989127680
https://twitter.com/SohrabAhmari/status/1007299983454949378
This is bats*** insane. And how in the world does the IG come up with the idea that political bias didn't affect the Hillary investigation with these texts? https://t.co/8jRntODKgu
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) June 14, 2018
https://twitter.com/SohrabAhmari/status/1007283901159628801
Moreover, that text wasn't redacted. It wasn't INCLUDED in that series of messages. https://t.co/nC5MuEn99z
— (((Jason Epstein))) (@Southfive) June 14, 2018
https://twitter.com/SohrabAhmari/status/1007301448919592966
As a matter of fact, there is. Well, sort of. Actually, not really:
DOJ official is unable to say if Strok's "we'll stop" Trump text message was deleted, or something else. But the response was to an Aug. 9, 2016 message from Lisa Page. That's before FBI servers were hit with glitch. https://t.co/qTupjCRPW9 @dailycaller pic.twitter.com/0pExRXlkXD
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) June 14, 2018
This exchange was 9 days after "Crossfire Hurricane" started and 6 days before the infamous "insurance policy" text. https://t.co/qTupjCRPW9
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) June 14, 2018
More from the Daily Caller:
A Justice Department spokesperson was unable to say why the message, which was sent on Aug. 9, 2016, was missing from the previous document productions.
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The FBI has acknowledged that it was unable to recover tens of thousands of texts between Page and Strzok from Dec. 13, 2016 to May 17, 2017 due to a technical glitch. Some of those messages were recovered and given to Congress.
The missing Strzok text cited in the inspector general’s report was sent well before the glitch affected FBI servers.
The Justice Department official was not sure whether the Strzok text was deleted or whether they it missing due to other technical issues.
Uh-huh.
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Related:
‘WOMP WOMP’! Jonathan Chait’s attempt to downplay damning Strzok-Page texts fails BIGLY
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