DC: An FBI attorney who worked on the special counsel’s Russia investigation until earlier this year sent anti-Trump text messages to a colleague, including one exclaiming: “Viva le Resistance.”
The attorney’s comments are revealed in a Justice Department inspector general’s report released on Thursday.
The lawyer is not identified, but he worked on the Hillary Clinton email investigation and was the FBI’s lead attorney on the investigation into Russian election interference. He was assigned to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation soon after it began in May 2017 and left in late February of this year after some of his private messages were shared with the special counsel.
The inspector general’s report focuses on instant messages that the attorney exchanged with a colleague about the Clinton and Russia probes.
“I am numb,” the attorney wrote on Nov. 9, 2016, the day after President Trump’s election.
“I am so stressed about what I could have done differently,” the lawyer continued, apparently referring to the FBI’s handling of the Clinton email probe.
The attorney’s messages show that the was distressed at the FBI’s decision in October 2016 to re-open the investigation into Clinton’s emails. Democrats have claimed that decision hurt Clinton at the polls.
The FBI lawyer also suggested that he would work to resist the Trump administration.
“Is it making you rethink your commitment to the Trump administration?” one FBI lawyer wrote on Nov. 22, 2016.
“Hell no. Viva le resistance,” the future Mueller attorney responded. MORE
It’s making MSNBC nervous. Interesting.
Andrea Mitchell is wondering how the text messages and emails is NOT showing bias to clinton. They are.
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My bet is Strozk and Page are the ones in those messages. Still employed at the FBI for some reason.
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From CTH: “Important note. Read, but don’t focus on, the “executive summary” or “conclusions”; those two sections were written by political administrators in FBI and DOJ leadership. Focus on the substance of the documented facts within the IG report. You’ll note the specific facts don’t support the “summary/conclusion”. “
I’m confident there are or were many more than just one on Mueller’s team. Perhaps all.
@mja – ” Focus on the substance of the documented facts within the IG report. You’ll note the specific facts don’t support the “summary/conclusion”. “
That reads like a description of Comey’s presser letting Hillary off the hook. Provide a long list of her crimes. Then summarize by saying, no recommendation for charges or prosecution. Same game plan strategy?
President Donald J. Trump needs to sign an Executive Order to have every document referenced in this OIG Report released in its original form to the Congressional Committees investigating every aspect of this conspiracy. Otherwise, this will turn into Whitewashgate, and nobody will ever be completely satisfied with anything coming from the Justice Department. We, the People, can handle the truth.
Blink- I’m trying to figure out why doesn’t the fucking IG himself write the summary and conclusion, instead of the assholes who didn’t want this aired in the first place? This is like a bank robber being his own judge at trial.
Whatever. Plenty of info in the document for Huber to prosecute.
@ Marco – I agree I want to KNOW NOW what this mofo’s name is!!
We can handle the TRUTH! Sick of this redacted nonsense.
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