More FBI-DOJ Text Messages Reveal Secret Plot To Undermine Trump
�Jaw-dropping� Text Message By FBI Agent Suggests No Trump Collusion With Russia
And the hits just keep on coming.
Just hours after we reported that according to the latest batch of text messages between
anti-Trump FBI investigators, a �secret society of folks� within the DOJ and the
FBI may have come together in the �immediate aftermath� of the 2016 election to undermine
President Trump, another blockbuster text message appears to have emerged.
Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental
Affairs Committee, said in a radio interview that the FBI�s top agent on the Trump-Russia
investigation, Peter Strzok, sent what Johnson called a �jaw-dropping� text message last
year that suggests he saw no evidence of Trump campaign collusion.
As first reported by the Daily Caller�s Chuck Ross, in an interview with WISN-Milwaukee
radio host Jay Weber, Johnson read aloud a May 19, 2017 text that Strzok sent to Lisa
Page, an FBI lawyer and his mistress.
As Weber summarized, �Sen Ron Johnson tells me he�s discovered a text from Peter Strzok
2 days after the Mueller investigation in which he questions whether he wants to be
part of it because he believes �there�s nothing there�.
No collusion.�
The Strozk text verbatim on joining the Mueller investigation: May 19th, 2017- �You and
I both know the odds are nothing.
If I thought it was likely, I�d be there no question.
I hesitate in part because of my gut sense and concern that there�s no big there there.�
Here is the �jawdropping� text message that Strzok wrote just two days after Mueller
was named special counsel for the Russia Investigation:
�You and I both know the odds are nothing.
If I thought it was likely, I�d be there no question.
I hesitate in part because of my gut sense and concern that there�s no big there there.�
Sen Ron Johnson drops a bombshell on The Jay Weber Show
Johnson said that the text referred to the Mueller investigation, which had kicked off
two days earlier.
Strzok joined that team, but was removed in July after the Justice Department�s inspector
general discovered his anti-Trump text exchanges with Page.
As the FBI�s deputy counterintelligence chief, Strzok had been picked in July 2016
to oversee the investigation into possible Trump campaign collusion with the Russian
government; in other words the text message came almost one year after the anti-Trump
FBI agent had already done preliminary work on whether there was any Trump collusion.
Prior to that, he was a top investigator on the Clinton email inquiry.
�I think that�s kind of jaw-dropping,� said Johnson, a Republican, said of the Strzok
text.
�In other words, Peter Strzok, who was the FBI deputy assistant director of the counterintelligence
division, the man who had a plan to do something because he just couldn�t abide Donald Trump
being president, is saying that his gut sense is that there�s no big there there when
it comes to the Mueller special counsel investigation,� Johnson explained.
This particular text message was included in 400 pages of text messages exchanged between
Strzok and Page.
Lawmakers have started reviewing the trove of documents for evidence of anti-Trump and
pro-Clinton bias as part of an ongoing investigation.
Yesterday AG Jeff Sessions announced that the DOJ was also beginning an investigation
into the months of missing text message that the FBI had failed to preserve.
Johnson also addressed the revelation last Friday that the FBI �failed to preserve�
five months worth of text messages exchanged between Strzok and Page.
A Justice Department official told Johnson�s committee and five other congressional panels
that a �misconfiguration� issue caused �many� FBI-issued mobile devices to not
back up to the bureau�s servers.
In a shocking disclosure late last week the FBI said it did not have text messages for
Strzok and Page for the period between Dec. 14, 2016 and May 17, 2017 � the day that
Mueller was appointed.
Johnson said that Congress needs to see the missing text messages because Strzok and Page
were �completely unguarded in their communication.�
�So we�re getting insight into exactly what is happening inside the FBI at the highest
levels.
And who knows who else they might implicate in terms of corruption,� he said.
Meanwhile the question of just who was obstructing justice � Trump or the FBI and the DOJ � is
becoming increasingly more pressing with each passing day.
FBI Agents Discussed �Secret Society� Within DOJ And FBI Working To Undermine Trump
Congressional investigators learned from a new batch of text messages between anti-Trump
FBI investigators that a �secret society of folks� within the Department of Justice
and the FBI may have come together in the �immediate aftermath� of the 2016 election
to undermine President Trump, according to Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) who has reviewed
the texts.
The new texts were included in a 384-page DOJ document release to Congressional investigators
last Friday � during which Congress was notified in the cover letter that that five
months of text messages from December 14, 2016 to May 17, 2017 have gone missing (If
only the NSA had copies).
Ratcliffe was joined by Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) to discuss the latest developments with Fox
News host Martha McCallum, when Ratcliffe said:
What we learned today in the thousands of text messages that weve reviewed that perhaps
they may not have done that (checked their bias at the door).
There�s certainly a factual basis to question whether or not they acted on that bias.
We know about this insurance policy that was referenced in trying to prevent Donald Trump
from becoming president.
We learned today from information that in the immediate aftermath of his election that
there may have been a secret society of folks within the Department of Justice and the FBI
to include Page and Strzok to be working against him.
Rep. Gowdy deflected a question over a second special counsel, but mentioned �a text about
not keeping texts,� and �more manifest bias against President Trump all the way through
the election into the transition,� and finally Gowdy said he saw a text that �Director
Comey was going to update the President of the United States about an investigation�
which would have been Obama � and may, Gowdy speculates, have been about the Trump team.
Regarding the �secret society,� Gowdy said �You have this insurance policy in
Spring 2016, and then the day after the election, what they really didn�t want to have happen,
there is a text exchange between these two FBI agents, these supposed to be fact-centric
FBI agents saying, �Perhaps this is the first meeting of the secret society.� So
I�m going to want to know what secret society you are talking about, because you�re supposed
to be investigating objectively the person who just won the electoral college.
So yeah � I�m going to want to know.�
As we have been reporting over the last two days, the FBI �lost� five months of text
messages between anti-Trump FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.
The explanation for the gap was �misconfiguration issues related to rollouts, provisioning,
and software upgrades that conflicted with the FBI�s collection capabilities.�
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The missing texts conveniently span the period between Dec. 14, 2016 and May 17, 2017 � the
day Robert Mueller was appointed to take over the FBI�s probe of alleged Trump-Russia
collusion, and during the period in which the FBI would ostensibly have been hard at
work on their �insurance policy� against a Trump victory � and during the period
in which the �secret society� Rep. Ratcliffe referred to would have been hard at work.
A controversy also emerged following the revelation over the missing �textgate� � in that
the DOJ�s internal investigative unit, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) wrote
a letter in December of last year specifically stating that they had obtained text messages
from Strzok and Page covering the �missing� period revealed last Friday.
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Alas, it appears the Inspector General Michael Horowitz made this statement in error, as
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a Monday statement that Horrowitz was in fact the one
who �discovered the FBI�s system failed to retain text messages for approximately
5 months,� which was confirmed by Fox News.
A Justice Department spokesperson told Fox News that the Departments Office of Inspector
General also does not have any text messages between the two during that time period.
Not to worry � the DOJ, known for its honesty, will leave �no stone unturned.�
DOJ Begins Probe Of �Missing� Anti-Trump FBI Texts, �Will Leave No Stone Unturned�
Following the not entirely surprising news at the end of last week that The FBI �failed
to preserve� five months of text messages between various anti-Trump agents, Attorney
General Jeff Sessions revealed today that the department of justice has launched a full
investigation into this debacle.
More than 50,000 texts were exchanged between the two FBI officialswho have come under fire
for exchanging anti-Trump messages during the 2016 election.
�The FBI has informed [the Department of Justice] that many FBI-provided Samsung 5
mobile devices did not capture or store text messages due to misconfiguration issues related
to rollouts, provisioning, and software upgrades that conflicted with the FBI�s collection
capabilities.�
The #2 counterintelligence official at the FBI sent 50,000 texts to his mistress on an
unsecure phone while pretending to be very worried about Russian hacking attempts and
�kompromat� on Trump.
But, in another comedic twist, when asked Monday whether the FBI �failed to preserve�
text message records on similar �Samsung 5� devices belonging to any other FBI officials
during that time period, the FBI told Fox News they had �no comment�.
In other words, according to the FBI, it was Samsung�s fault thousands of text message
in an especially sensitive period went missing.
Incidentally, during the window of missing text messages, a lot happened: Trump took
the oath of office; National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, whom Strzok interviewed, was
fired; the controversial anti-Trump dossier was published; the president fired FBI Director
James Comey; and special counsel Mueller was appointed to investigate Russian meddling
and potential collusion with Trump campaign associates during the 2016 presidential election.
Certainly a �very convenient� period of time in which all potentially incriminating
text messages would suddenly disappear�
�The loss of records from this period is concerning because it is apparent from other
records that Mr. Strzok and Ms. Page communicated frequently about the investigation,� Johnson
wrote in a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray over the weekend, as we reported previously,
requesting more information and questioning whether the FBI had done a thorough search
on non-FBI devices belonging to Strzok and Page during that period.
And it was a lot: the two agents exchanged at least 25,000 text message a year or approximately
70 text message per day!
This immediately prompted some to ask just what was the logic:
The #2 counterintelligence official at the FBI sent 50,000 texts to his mistress on an
unsecure phone while pretending to be very worried about Russian hacking attempts and
�kompromat� on Trump.
�We will leave no stone unturned to confirm with certainty why these text messages are
not now available to be produced and will use every technology available to determine
whether the missing messages are recoverable from another source.
�If we are successful, we will update the congressional committees immediately.�
Sessions added that:
�I have spoken to the Inspector General and a review is already underway to ascertain
what occurred and to determine if these records can be recovered in any other way.�
�If any wrongdoing were to be found to have caused this gap, appropriate legal disciplinary
action measures will be taken.�
Below is the full statement by the US Attorney General, highlights ours:
�Six congressional committees made a request to the Department ofJustice for FBI text messages
between two FBI employees from July 1, 2015 to July 28, 2017, which the Department agreed
to produce as quickly as possible.
The Inspector General has been reviewing these texts based on �allegations that Department
or FBI policies or procedures were not followed�and that certain underlying investigative decisions
were based on improper considerations.� The Department of Justice agreed to produce
those records as quickly as possible.
After reviewing the voluminous records on the FBI�s servers, which included over 50,000
texts, the Inspector General discovered the FBI�s system failed to retain text messages
for approximately 5 months between December 14, 2016 to May 17, 2017.
�The Department apprised the congressional committees of the missing text messages on
Friday in the transmittal letter when providing the available text messages to them.
I have spoken to the Inspector General and a review is already underway to ascertain
what occurred and to determine if these records can be recovered in any other way.
If any wrongdoing were to be found to have caused this gap, appropriate legal disciplinary
action measures will be taken.
�We will leave no stone unturned to confirm with certainty why these text messages are
not now available to be produced and will use every technology available to determine
whether the missing messages are recoverable from another source.
If we are successful, we will update the congressional committees immediately.�
Session�s statement suggests that contrary to earlier disclosures and speculation, the
Inspector General was never in possession of the emails.
An OIG spokesperson declined to comment to Fox News.
�The claim that five months of critical evidence went missing due to a technical glitch
is really hard to take at face value,� a source from the House Permanent Select Committee
on Intelligence told Fox News on Monday, leaving the door open for that committee to also launch
a formal inquiry with the FBI.
Then there is the question of why did the FBI disclose this gap only now: a source on
one committee in receipt of the new text messages told Fox News it was �outrageous� that
the FBI had not previously indicated the five-month gap in messages existed.
The source said it was incumbent on the FBI to prove that the missing texts do not constitute
�obstruction� of congressional oversight or �destruction of evidence.�
As a reminder, last month, the DOJ released hundreds of text messages between Strzok and
Page, both of whom served briefly on Mueller�s team, with Page leaving over the summer and
Strzok being reassigned late last year to the FBI�s human resources division after
the discovery of the exchanges with Page.
Many of the texts revealed a clear anti-Trump and pro-Clinton bias, and included discussions
of the Clinton email investigation.
�We need to get to the bottom of it and find out what exactly happened,� Rep. Jim
Jordan, R-Ohio, said Monday on Fox News� �Outnumbered Overtime.�
Jordan said Monday that the lapse in documents is reminiscent of the mysterious disappearance
of emails from former IRS official Lois Lerner during the Obama-era IRS/Tea Party targeting
scandal.
Lerner�s emails disappeared during congressional investigations.
�The Lerner thing was huge,� Jordan told The Daily Caller.
�My gut tells me this is probably bigger.�
So to summarize:
IRS emails: missing, and likely deleted Clinton emails: deleted
NSA emails: deleted And now, thousands of FBI text messages: deleted
What a farce.
Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., said the need for a second special counsel was �abundantly
clear now.�
�Unreal.
We�ve been asking for the remaining text messages between anti-Trump FBI agents (and
former Mueller team members), Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.
The FBI now says the texts are �missing,�� Meadows tweeted on Sunday.
�If it wasn�t already clear we need a second special counsel, it�s abundantly
clear now.�
Unreal.
We�ve been asking for the remaining text messages between anti-Trump FBI agents (and
former Mueller team members), Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.
The FBI now says the texts are �missing.�
If it wasn�t already clear we need a second special counsel, it�s abundantly clear now
Shortly after the news broke, Donald Trump, Jr was drown in, tweeting �The FBI/govt
�loss of texts� revelations are crazy.
How often can they lose seemingly critical info before Americans realize it�s all a
big scam?
Lerner, Clinton, FBI etc� Imagine if I tried that???
Why the different standard for them?�
The FBI/govt �loss of texts� revelations are crazy.
How often can they lose seemingly critical info before Americans realize it�s all a
big scam?
Lerner, Clinton, FBI etc�
Imagine if I tried that???
Why the different standard for them?
Donald Trump Jr.
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