FBI Agent, Peter Strzok, Praised Hillary While Leading Email Investigation

DC: FBI agent Peter Strzok praised Hillary Clinton and said he would vote for her for president while also leading the investigation into her possible mishandling of classified information.

In March 2016, Strzok sent his mistress Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer, text messages saying that “Hillary should win 100,000,000 – 0.”

And asked who he would vote for in the election, Strzok told Page: “I suppose Hillary.”

Strzok also referred to himself as a “conservative Dem” in one exchange.

The text messages are included in a trove of messages released on Tuesday night, ahead of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee.

Strzok was removed from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation over the summer after the Justice Department’s inspector general discovered the text messages.

Republicans have called foul over the communications because of Strzok’s central role in both the Clinton email probe but also the investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government.

Strzok and Page also sent messages disparaging Trump, calling him an “idiot.”

A month before Strzok sent his pro-Clinton texts, he conducted an interview with Jake Sullivan, a former State Department official and Clinton aide who sent many of the classified emails that ended up on Clinton’s private email server.

FBI records show that Strzok interviewed Sullivan on Feb. 27, 2016.

Strzok, who at the time served as the FBI’s No. 2 counterintelligence official, would go on to interview several Clinton and several of her aides over the next few months.

He interviewed Huma Abedin on April 5, 2016 and Cheryl Mills on April 9 and May 28, 2016. An interview with Clinton attorney Heather Samuelson was conducted on May 24, 2016, according to FBI records.

 

Finally, Strzok and Justice Department lawyer David Laufman interviewed Clinton on July 2, 2016.

Three days later, then-FBI Director James Comey announced that he would not be recommending charges against Clinton for mishandling classified information.

Strzok’s politically-charged texts continued as he transitioned from the Clinton investigation to the Russia probe.

On July 27, 2016, he wrote of Clinton, “She just has to to win now.”  more here

 

And now, from the Conservative Treehouse:

FBI Agent Peter Strozk Anti-Trump Messages Released To Media – However, The Key Question is Not Content…

[…] As Judicial Committee Representative Jim Jordan rightly outlined, Agent Strzok would not likely be removed because he had biased text messages with his mistress.  So long as that bias did not interfere with his work duty, there is no issue; and Strzok was not in a position of supervision over Lisa Page so they could encounter like rabbits to their black-hats desire.  However, if FBI Agent Strzok was a “leaker” to the media, or worse, well, that’s an entirely different kettle-o-fish.

Getting caught as a leaker is likely the reason Strzok was removed and reassigned to the HR post; not the bias.  The bias, writ large, is essentially a snipe hunt; it makes good media clicks, it feeds a good headline, but ultimately it’s a nothingburger.  The reports on this angle are flak and countermeasures.

However, Agent Strzok leaking information to the media; his changing the outcome of an FBI investigation into a political ally, Hillary Clinton; and his investigative involvement in the Trump Russia Conspiracy, via the Steele Dossier and FISA warrant, well, that’s the real issue evident here.  MORE

 

SNIP: Show of hands. Who has faith in the FBI ever doing the right thing?