DOJ Withholding Over 85% Of Strzok-Page FBI Texts From Congressional Investigators

Out of 50,000 texts between anti-Trump FBI investigators Peter Strzok and Lisa Page - not including an unknown number of recently found texts, the DOJ has submitted a mere 7,000 to Congressional investigators - just 14%, reports the Washington Examiner's Byron York.


Deputy Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein

The majority of the withheld messages were deemed "pesonal" or withheld for other reasons, according to York. 

Also notable, according to York, is that the 50,000 Strzok-Page texts only include messages sent and received on FBI-issued Samsung phones - despite several text messages which make clear that the two agents also discussed their politically tainted investigations over their personal iPhones using iMessage. 

For investigators, those are particularly intriguing texts – what was so sensitive that they couldn't discuss on their work phones? – but the number of those texts is unknown. And of course, they have not been turned over to Congress. -Washington Examiner

In a January 19 letter from Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd to Congressional investigators, the DOJ said that they would not be providing "purely personal" text messages.

"The department is not providing text messages that were purely personal in nature," Boyd wrote. "Furthermore, the department has redacted from some work-related text messages portions that were purely personal. The department's aim in withholding purely personal text messages and redacting personal portions of work-related text messages was primarily to facilitate the committee's access to potentially relevant text messages without having to cull through large quantities of material unrelated to either the investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of a personal email server or the investigation into Russian efforts to interfere with the 2016 presidential election."

Lastly, York notes that Boyd says special counsel Robert Mueller made redactions to the texts "in a few instances," which were "related to the structure, operation, and substance" of the Special Counsel's investigation because it is ongoing. The DOJ told Congress that they would "work with" them to further describe or even reveal redacted information in a "closed setting."


Special Counsel Robert Mueller III

As for the formerly missing text messages spanning December 14, 2016 through May 17, 2017, there are several unanswered questions. As The Examiner notes: 

The time period involved, Dec. 14, 2016 to May 17, 2017, covered some of the key moments in the FBI's investigation of the Trump-Russia affair: conversations between Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn and Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak; the completion and publication of the intelligence community assessment of Russian interference in the 2016 election; the briefing in which FBI director James Comey told President-elect Donald Trump about the Trump dossier; the president's inauguration; the nomination and confirmation of new Justice Department leadership; Flynn's interview with the FBI (conducted by Strzok); Comey's assurances to Trump that he, Trump, was not under investigation; a variety of revelations, mostly in the Washington Post and New York Times, about various Trump figures under investigation; Attorney General Jeff Sessions' recusal from the Russia probe; the firing of top Obama Justice Department holdover Sally Yates; Trump's tweet alleging he was wiretapped; Trump's firing of Comey; and, finally, the appointment of Mueller.

Alas, it appears that the vast majority of text messages between the anti-Trump FBI investigators will remain in the dark for "personal" or "other reasons," despite the fact that they may shed further light on the agents' personalities, motivations, and the extent of their extreme political bias which clearly played a significant role in their investigations. 

Comments

FreedomWriter shovelhead Jan 28, 2018 11:51 AM Permalink

Wow, just wow. The Queen of Darkness and the FBI have now set a new precedent for criminal investigative proceedings and the handling of evidence. Uncle Bob is allowed to filter and tamper with evidence that may incriminate him and his associates. 

Judicial warrants are needed to seize all text messages and commence criminal proceedings against these corrupt FBI/DOJ officials and their leaders.

If that doesn't work through normal channels, I would humbly suggest a FISA warrant be granted on the grounds of a clear and present danger to National Security, i.e., attempted subversion and overthrow of a legally elected government, and perhaps even attempted assassination.  What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

 

The fun and games are over folks. People are going down.

 

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Terminaldude Jan 28, 2018 11:44 AM Permalink

I can't wait for the State of the Union address this week to see what Trump unleashes.  There will be a lot of bragging but hopefully there will be an equal amount of info. to scare the shit out of the Deep State and open the blind sheep's eyes to what is going on in the FBI and DOJ among other agencies.  We can only hope.

Grandad Grumps Jan 28, 2018 11:44 AM Permalink

A test for Trump: Trump supposedly has the authority to demand the DoJ to turn over the texts to Congress or himself. If the texts are given to him, he has the legal authority (legal under what power?) to unmask anyone he wants and give the texts to anyone he wants.

What will he do?

My belief is that in VERY large scheme of things nothing related to this matters at all. The only important dialectic is between the physical world and spiritual world (or whatever you want to call where are consciousnesses lie). Good and evil are both manifestations of the physical world. So, whatever is done here to promote good or evil is still done in the physical world, which is Satan's domain.

Lord Raglan Jan 28, 2018 11:47 AM Permalink

I will bet anyone a steak dinner that the withheld texts talk about taking Trump out, namely, assassinating him as Insurance Policy No. 2 if Insurance Policy No. 1, the Russia-Russia-Russia Collusion Farce, fails. 

These dirt bag treasonous Marxists who have insinuated themselves into the bowels of government are deeply tied to CNN and MSNBC.  We need to get into those connections and indict some of those news people.  Many have to be on the Clinton Foundation payroll.  

Lord Raglan Jan 28, 2018 11:52 AM Permalink

The problem with Trump firing Sessions is there is no one else Congress would quickly approve, or approve at all, to replace him who would be worth a shit and Trump'd be left with another Rod Rosenstein as acting AG, if not him.  Don't forget that Obama absolutely packed that office at the upper echelon with like-minded Marxists willing to do the Deep State's bidding.  Trump would be hard pressed to find anyone in upper management in agreement with his nation-state agenda.