“Our help is in the Name of Yahweh who made heaven and earth.”
(Psalm 124: 8)
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The Hill—FBI agent in texts: ‘We’ll stop’ Trump from becoming president:
An FBI agent who was removed from the probe into alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign texted an FBI attorney that the agency would “stop” then-candidate Donald Trump from becoming president.
Text messages disclosed Thursday in a highly anticipated report from the Justice Department’s internal watchdog showed Peter Strzok, a top investigator into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton‘s use of a private email server and into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, seemingly reassuring lawyer Lisa Page that Trump would not become president, The Washington Post reported.
“[Trump’s] not ever going to become president, right? Right?!” Page texted Strzok in August 2016.
“No. No he won’t. We’ll stop it,” Strzok responded.
The text messages’ disclosure comes as part of the inspector general’s review of former FBI Director James Comey‘s handling of the Clinton email investigation.
In his report, Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz concluded that Comey “deviated” from standard FBI procedure in the Clinton investigation, but was not motivated by political bias.
The conclusion, first reported by Bloomberg, also found that Strzok’s and Page’s potential political biases never “directly affected” the specific investigative actions that were reviewed in the report.
“We did not find documentary or testimonial evidence that improper considerations, including political bias, directly affected the specific investigative actions we reviewed,” the report’s conclusion reads.
Strzok and Page were removed from special counsel Robert Mueller‘s investigation over the text messages, which were obtained by internal investigators, in the summer of 2017. The exchange, however, negatively affected public perception of the office, the report found.
“The conduct by these employees cast a cloud over the entire FBI investigation,” the report says.
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SnyderTalk Comment:
There is sufficient evidence against Peter Strzok and Lisa Page to warrant a thorough investigation of Robert Mueller’s Russia collusion investigation. They are critical links between the Clinton email scandal and his investigation. There may be, probably are, more links.
Both Strzok and Page were selected to serve on Team Mueller. Both of them had reputations. Neither of them was honest or objective. They attempted to sabotage candidate Trump, and they worked with Andy McCabe to try to bring down President Trump after the election. Both of them should be in prison. The fact that they were instrumental in both investigations raises many important questions that demand answers.
If FBI Director Comey wasn’t complicit in Strzok’s and Page’s crimes, he was a fool. Comey needs a more thorough investigation, too, as do Hillary Clinton, Loretta Lynch, Barack Obama, and a host of others. This is critically important: the IG report points in the direction of the Oval Office.
Congress needs to initiate its own investigation of Team Mueller and the Clinton email scandal. This is a first in American history. Congress needs to make an example of anyone involved in this sordid affair. If as citizens, we can’t trust the higher-ups in the DOJ and the FBI, we are no better than a Third World banana republic.
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“The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.” (John 17: 22-24)
