Since all the news networks, Dems and Deep Staters lie
believing they have enough power to not be called out, here are some prime time
facts you won’t hear elsewhere on Fox News (and to be clear, Fox News
allows its Leftie contributors to blatantly).
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Even as the Mainstream Media (MSM) continues to harangue the
Trump Administration over Crooked Hillary’s loss to President Trump, more and more
documented information is rising to the top like scum purified out of metal.
Emails and memos substantiate just how corrupt the Obama Administration’s FBI,
DOJ, CIA, etc. leadership indeed was in creating ex nihilo
fake evidence of Trump wrongdoing with Russian help.
Below are three documented stories of where the actual
collusion originated and guess what? TRUMP IS NOT THE CULPRIT!
At some point, some rational journalist is going to have to
start openly wondering if they’ve been wrong about this FBI/DOJ/Mueller stuff
all along, won’t they?
The overwhelming majority of agents working for the FBI/DOJ
are wonderful, hard-working professionals, which begs the question, how did so
many anti-Trump, pro-Hillary Clinton agents get in on the Clinton
investigation, the Russia investigation, and the Mueller investigation?
The material that has leaked out over the last few months
has proven that at least 4-5 of the agents had a definite anti-Trump animus and
that animus was bad enough that Mueller canned them from his investigation.
Now, we’re learning that there is even more evidence of the
intelligence community working against Trump for partisan reasons.
Multiple reviews of whether FBI
agents’ political bias affected the Russia-Trump collusion case remain in their
infancy, but investigators already have unearthed troubling internal
communications long withheld from public view.
We already know from FBI
counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok’s now-infamous text messages with his
fellow agent and reported lover, Lisa Page, that Strzok — the man driving that
Russia collusion investigation — disdained Donald Trump and
expressed willingness to use his law enforcement powers to “stop” the
Republican from becoming president.
Memos the FBI is now producing
to the Department of Justice (DOJ) inspector general and multiple Senate and
House committees offer what sources involved in the production, review or
investigation describe to me as “damning” or “troubling” evidence.
They show Strzok and his
counterintelligence team rushing in the fall of 2016 to find “derogatory”
information from informants or a “pretext” to accelerate the probe and get a
surveillance warrant on figures tied to the future president.
The memos prove that Strzok and his team railroaded Trump
associate Carter Page (who has still never been accused of any kind of wrongdoing)
and used him as a scapegoat to spy on the Trump campaign. Strzok’s own words in
the memos damn him for his immoral tactics and obvious partisan behavior.
The memos also indicate that certain FBI officials were
knowingly and maliciously leaking information from their investigations to
Democrats in Congress and to the media.
These and other documents are
still being disseminated to various oversight bodies in Congress, and more
revelations are certain to occur.
Yet, now, irrefutable proof
exists that agents sought to create pressure to get “derogatory” information
and a “pretext” to interview people close to a future president they didn’t
like.
Clear evidence also exists that
an investigation into still-unproven collusion between a foreign power and a
U.S. presidential candidate was driven less by secret information from Moscow
and more by politically tainted media leaks.
And that means the dots between
expressions of political bias and official actions just got a little more
connected.
In response to all of the bad news, Democrat leader Adam
Schiff (D-CA) has been trying to obfuscate what is really happening by
attacking Republicans for being on Trump’s side.
Schiff has even begun mocking a few GOP Congressional
leaders as ‘The Four Horsemen,” but Congressman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) isn’t worried
about anything Schiff has to say. In fact, to hear Gowdy talk about it… nobody
in the GOP “gives a damn” about what Schiff thinks.
“Let me tell you this about
Adam,” Gowdy began. “Adam’s had a terrible last couple of years. He wanted to
be the attorney general under Hillary Clinton and no one in the country worked
harder to protect her than Adam Schiff.”
“He wanted to be the head of the
CIA. He wanted to run for California and the run for Senate and the People’s
Republic of California, but he couldn’t win either of those seats. So, now,
now, he wants to be the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. Speaking
of the apocalypse, Adam Schiff wants to be the chairman of the House
Intelligence Committee,” he said.
“If you ever have — I don’t know — a couple of three months with nothing else
to do, I want you to go back, Jason, and think of all the things you would not
know if you had taken Adam Schiff’s advice. You wouldn’t know the whole — the
spontaneous reaction to a video was a hoax in Libya. You would never have read
the first Chris Stevens email. You wouldn’t know that Hillary Clinton had this
unique email arrangement with herself because Adam Schiff did everything in his
power to keep you from finding out,” Gowdy continued.
“You wouldn’t know about the
dossier. You wouldn’t know who funded it. You wouldn’t know it was used in a
court proceeding. You wouldn’t know about Strzok and Page. In fact, you
wouldn’t even be having the show tonight. You wouldn’t be having the show about
Strzok and Page if Adam Schiff had had his,” Gowdy finished.
During a closed-door interview on June 27, former FBI
official Peter Strzok downplayed his role in obtaining surveillance warrants to
spy on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
The Daily Beastreported that Strzok, the
former deputy chief of counterintelligence, claimed in the interview that he
had no substantive input on drafting or securing Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants used to spy on Page, an energy consultant who
left the Trump team in September 2016.
Strzok also denied providing evidence for the FISAs, the
first of which was granted on Oct. 21, 2016.
A Republican in the June 27 interview confirmed that Strzok,
who oversaw the Russian investigation, denied having a direct role in the FISA
process. But the Republican was also incredulous at Strzok’s suggestion that he
had little to do with the spy warrants obtained against Page.
A new report appears to justify the Republican’s skepticism.
John Solomon reported on The Hill that Strzok exchanged emails with FBI
attorney Lisa Page regarding the Carter Page surveillance.
Strzok and Lisa Page exchanged numerous anti-Trump text
messages during their work on the Russia probe, which was codenamed “Crossfire
Hurricane.” In one Aug. 8, 2016, message, Strzok told Page that “we’ll stop”
Trump from becoming president.
Strzok, who was the FBI’s top investigator on Crossfire
Hurricane, sent an email with the subject line “Crossfire FISA” to Lisa Page
discussing a set of talking points aimed at getting then-FBI Deputy Director
Andrew McCabe to push the Department of Justice to approve a surveillance
warrant against Carter Page, according to Solomon.
“At a minimum, that keeps the hurry the F up pressure on
him,” Strzok emailed Lisa Page on Oct. 14, 2016, according to Solomon.
Strzok also commented on a letter that Lisa Page sent to
then-FBI Director Jim Comey offering to meet with the FBI to discuss
allegations made against him in a Yahoo News article published on Sept. 23,
2016.
“At a minimum, the letter provides us a pretext to
interview,” Strzok wrote to Lisa Page, with whom he was having an affair, on
Sept. 26, 2016.
The Yahoo News article claimed that U.S. government
officials were looking into allegations that Page met secretly in Moscow in
July 2016 with two sanctioned Kremlin insiders.
It would later be learned that the article, written by
Michael Isikoff, was based on information from Christopher Steele, the author
of the dossier.
The dossier claimed that Page was the Trump campaign’s
conduit to the Kremlin for the collusion conspiracy. Page has vehemently denied
all of the allegations, and no evidence has emerged to support the Steele
dossier’s claims about him.
The FBI and DOJ’s spy warrants relied heavily on the Steele dossier,
which remains largely unverified and uncorroborated, in order to persuade a
federal judge to allow spying against Carter Page. The FISA applications also
cited the Isikoff article that relied on the dossier, though without disclosing
that the article was derived from Steele.
The applications also did not disclose that the Hillary
Clinton campaign and DNC had financed the dossier. A law firm for both
organizations hired opposition research firm Fusion GPS, which in turn hired
Steele.
Despite Strzok’s suggestion of an interview with Carter
Page, the FBI did not meet with him until March 2017, six months after the
email and two months after BuzzFeed News published the dossier. Page has
questioned why the FBI waited so long to interview him.
The FBI used other methods to keep tabs on the former Trump
aide. As The Daily Caller News Foundation first reported, an FBI informant
named Stefan Halper made contact with Page during a conference at the
University of Cambridge on July 11, 2016, nearly three weeks before the start
of Crossfire Hurricane.
Halper, a veteran of three Republican presidential
administrations, maintained contact with Page for over a year, until September
2017. That was the same month that the fourth and final FISA warrant against
Carter Page expired.
Halper met with two other Trump campaign advisers, Sam
Clovis and George Papadopoulos. Halper paid Papadopoulos $3,000 in September
2016 to travel to London under the guise of writing a policy paper and
Mediterranean energy issues.
Papadopoulos has told associates that during dinner one
night in London, Halper asked him about Russian efforts to steal Hillary
Clinton emails.
Strzok’s attorney, Aitan Goelman, did not respond to an
email seeking comment for this article.
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Judicial Watch Sues CIA for Documents
on Dossier Leak to Senator Harry Reid
Reid Publicized Clinton-DNC Dossier Allegations
Following Brennan Briefing
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced
today it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) for records of communications with former Senator
Harry Reid (D-NV) and his staff regarding the anti-Trump dossier funded by the
Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee (Judicial
Watch v. Central Intelligence Agency (No. 1:18-cv-01502)).
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid reportedly believed
then-Obama CIA Director Brennan was feeding him information about alleged links
between the Trump campaign and the Russian government in order to make public
accusations.
According to “Russian
Roulette,” by Yahoo! News chief investigative correspondent Michael
Isikoff and David Corn, the Washington bureau chief of the left-wing Mother
Jones magazine, Brennan contacted Reid on Aug. 25, 2016, to brief him on
the state of Russia’s interference in the presidential campaign. Brennan
briefed other members of the so-called Gang of Eight, but Reid is the only who
took direct action.
Two days after the briefing, Reid
wrote a
letter to then-FBI Director James Comey asserting that
“evidence of a direct connection between the Russian government and Donald
Trump’s presidential campaign continues to mount.”
Reid called on Comey to investigate the links “thoroughly
and in a timely fashion.”
Reid saw Brennan’s outreach as “a sign of urgency,” Isikoff
and Corn wrote in the book.
“Reid also had the impression that
Brennan had an ulterior motive. He concluded the CIA chief believed the public
needed to know about the Russian operation, including the information about the
possible links to the Trump campaign.”
According to the book, Brennan told
Reid that the intelligence community had determined that the Russian government
was behind the hack and leak of Democratic emails and that Russian President
Vladimir Putin was behind it. Brennan also told Reid that there was evidence that
Russian operatives were attempting to tamper with election results.
On August 27, 2016, Reid wrote a letter to
Comey accusing President Trump’s campaign of colluding with the Russian
government.
The Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit was filed in the U.S.
District Court for the District of Columbia after the CIA failed to respond to
a February 12, 2018, FOIA request for:
§All records of
communications, including but not limited to letters, emails, text messages,
and instant chats, between former CIA Director John Brennan and/or officials in
the CIA Director’s Office on the one hand, and Senator Harry Reid and/or
members of Senator Reid’s staff on the other hand, regarding, concerning or
relating to the Christopher Steele “dossier” and/or alleged “collusion” between
the Trump presidential campaign and Russia.
§Copies of any reports,
memoranda or other materials provided to Senator Reid and/or members of his
staff by the CIA relating to alleged Russian “collusion” or cooperation between
the Trump presidential campaign and Russia.
§All materials, including
briefing reports and memos, audio/video presentations, PowerPoint presentations
and any other records, used by CIA Director Brennan and/or other CIA officials
to brief Senator Reid and/or members of his staff on alleged “collusion”
between the Trump presidential campaign and Russia.
§All notes, minutes,
transcripts, and audio and/or visual recordings made of any and all briefings
provided by the CIA to Senator Reid and/or members of his staff regarding
alleged “collusion” between the Trump presidential campaign and Russia.
Brennan has come under public scrutiny as one of the
suspected prime movers of the “Spygate”
scandal against then-candidate Trump and his team during 2015 and 2016 and
later against President Trump and members of his administration.
Brennan himself has revealed his deep-seated animus toward
President Trump and used his media platform as an MSNBC commentator to
repeatedly attack the president.
When President Trump tweeted about FBI
Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s firing in March 2018, Brennanretweeted
and responded:
When the full extent of your
venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will
take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history.
You may scapegoat Andy McCabe, but you will not destroy America…America will
triumph over you.
In response to the president’s tweet that former FBI
director Comey is a “proven leaker and liar,” Brennan retweeted
and responded in April 2018 that President Trump’s
administration is a failing “kakistocracy.”
“Obama CIA Director John Brennan’s unhinged attacks on
President Trump help explain the Obama administration spying abuses targeting
Trump,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The mere fact that we had to
file this lawsuit shows the CIA has something to hide on Obama-era abuses and
collusion with Democrats in Congress to target then-candidate Trump.”
Judicial Watch filed a separate FOIA lawsuit against
the CIA on March 6, 2017, for records related to the investigation of former
Trump National Security Advisor and retired United States Army Lieutenant
General Michael Flynn’s communications with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak (Judicial
Watch v. Central Intelligence Agency et al.(No.1:17-cv-00397)).
The National Security Agency refused
to confirm or deny the existence of intelligence records about
communications between Gen. Flynn and Amb. Kislyak.
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I watched last night’s Ingraham Angle
and saw the Ingraham/Nunes interview about the House expanding Congressional
investigations into Obama Administration State Department officials’ possible
knowledge that the so-called Steele Dossier was a fake put together by the
Crooked Hillary campaign to disparage and sink the Trump campaign.
Democrats “have all this blood on their hands” because they
“completely destroyed the FBI and DOJ” by digging up dirt on President Donald
Trump in 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s favor, House
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) said
Monday on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle.”
“They’re the ones that have all this blood on their hands.
They’re the ones who completely destroyed the FBI and DOJ,” Nunes insisted.
“How did they do that? They did that by digging up dirt — the Clinton campaign
dug up dirt, put it into a dossier, fed it into the FBI. The FBI used our
counterintelligence capabilities against a political campaign. That’s what
happened here.”
Nunes was responding to accusations Rep. Adam Schiff
(D-Calif.), the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, leveled
against him and other GOP House committee members during an interview on CNN’s
“Wolf” last week.
Schiff called Nunes, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Rep. Mark
Meadows (R-N.C.) and Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) “the four horsemen of this
apocalypse” who “have been leading the charge basically to require the Justice
Department to give them materials that can be leaked or fed or misrepresented.”
Meadows is chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, which Jordan founded, while
Gowdy is chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
“And in the meantime, they do enormous damage to these
institutions. Ultimately they’ll be held accountable,” Schiff claimed.
Nunes dismissed Schiff, saying he and the other GOP
lawmakers are “not going to be threatened by the Democrats” and will proceed
with their investigative plans.
“The Democrats in the House and the Senate — they’ve
continued to want to obfuscate, they’ve continued to want to cover up,” Nunes
said. “If we listened to the Democrats, we would have never … found out that
the Democrats and Hillary Clinton paid [former British spy] Christopher Steele
to generate this dirt on President Trump.”
"So I tend to ignore everything that they say,"
Nunes added. "We continue to do our work day in and day out to get to the
truth. And gradually we are getting to the truth."
Nunes revealed earlier this year that the FBI used the
anti-Trump dossier alleging collusion between the presidential campaign and the
Russians to renew surveillance warrants again former Trump adviser Carter Page.
Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) funded the
dossier.
Information the congressional committees' investigations
have steadily uncovered includes direct evidence of profoundly anti-Trump and
pro-Clinton bias within the DOJ and FBI during the Russian collusion
investigation, and also in the immediately prior probe of Clinton's use of a private
email server to conduct official business as secretary of state.
Nunes noted that he referred 17 current and former DOJ and
FBI officials to Gowdy of the House oversight committee, and to Bob Goodlatte
(R-Va.), chairman of the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Nunes also revealed Monday that he referred 10 Obama-era
Department of State and White House officials to Gowdy and Goodlatte for
testimony about the dossier, surveillance abuse, and other matters.
Congressional investigators "still don't understand
how" and why the Trump-Russia investigation "was opened" in the
first place, Nunes said, noting that "many people in the Obama-era State
Department were involved in the opening of that investigation."
"We also know that many people in the State Department
were meeting with Christopher Steele ... so this is why this investigation is
taking a while," Nunes said. "A lot of people had their hands on the
Steele dossier, including many people in the media who knew about the Steele
dossier."
Nunes said these reasons are "partly why I am sending
these names over to the judiciary and oversight committees, because they
already have a task force — the task force has been convened."
"They should be able to do all of these hearings in the
public, full transparency, so that people can watch on live television,"
Nunes told Fox News host Laura Ingraham. "But the good thing is that I
believe that Chairmen Gowdy and Goodlatte, their task force will interview
these people, and they will interview them in public. It will be the first time
during this entire investigation that the American people get to see actual
questions get answered by these potential witnesses."
"That is my recommendation to the committee chairmen. I
believe they will follow that recommendation. And they may have other
names," Nunes added. "I believe as these hearings take place and
testimony is given to the Congress, I think it will be a much-needed sunlight
in this investigation. I think the American people will begin to see who is
telling the truth and who is not telling the truth."
Nunes also ripped mainstream media outlets for failing to
cover the Obama-era scandals and seeking to "get to the bottom of
it."
"What we're having to do here as the legislative branch
of government — we're having to do the work that the media won't do because
there are very few in the media who will actually cover this story to try to
get to the bottom of it," Nunes lamented. "That's part of what's
taking so long. Typically you would have a free and fair and transparent media
trying to get to the truth. But in this case we haven't had that."
Nunes said he hopes to ensure the American people "know
that this is just one more step in the process" of finding answers and
achieving transparency.
"I think we've been very transparent about how we've
conducted the process. We're onto FISA abuse and other matters. I've said for a
long time that we're looking at the State Department."
Sean Hannity’s show was awesome last night (2/5/18). Hannity’s
opening monologue outlines (he even provides lists as he speaks) how the Memo
constructed by the GOP members of the House Intel Committee demonstrates how
Crooked Hillary’s campaign used the FBI and Christopher Steele creating lies to
harm President Trump before and after his election.
The Dems led by liar Adam Schiff have constructed a Minority-Dem
Memo claiming the GOP Memo is filled with political duplicity. Although President
Trump hasn’t decided to release the Dem Memo, many pundits expect him to do so.
Yet rumor has it that the Dem Memo does not contradict the GOP Memo one iota.
Rather the Dem agenda is to discredit the GOP Memo by attacking Intel Committee
Chairman Devin Nunes and prominent Intel Committee member - Trey Gowdy.
Attacking the messenger to discredit facts and truth is the
standard method utilized by Alinsky, Obama and Crooked Hillary.
To drive Hannity’s opening monologue home, the show has who
Hannity calls “The Great One” – Mark Levin. Levin corroborates everything
Hannity lined out but emphasizes one key feature – Crooked Hillary paid for
it all.
Former British spy Christopher Steele was working on a
second anti-Trump dossier that contained allegations that were fed to him by
Clinton associates and the Obama State Department.
FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news
service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and business
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Today poll, is the most trusted television news source in the country. Owned by
21st Century Fox, FNC is available in more than 90 million homes and dominates
the cable news landscape, routinely notching the top ten programs in the genre.
Ok, it’s time for more discussion on revealed information
that FAKE NEWS loves to ignore or twist.
Married to other spouses love birds Peter Strzok and Lisa
Page who are obvious conspirators against President Trump and attempted to everything
in their power to insure a Crooked Hillary election victory in November 2016,
have been caught with their pants down – so to speak.
Their FBI text messages before the 2016 election and
afterwards by the love birds expose a Deep State collusion between the FBI and
DOJ in anti-Trump motives and moves.
AND CHECK IT OUT! The revealed text messages are
incriminating enough, BUT – shades of Lois Lerner – 50,000 text messages between the love
birds have mysteriously disappeared from the most technological law enforcement
agency in the world; i.e. the FBI! HMMM… Can you say COVER-UP!?
AND along with missing texts and – GASP! –
five months of lost digital correspondence, Strzok-Page messaging has revealed
their exists after Trump’s election a FBI-DOJ Secret Society.
Could this “Secret Society” be responsible for missing
probably incriminating evidence of criminal FBI-DOJ messaging up to and
including treason?
As the Dems undoubtedly will point out, without the evidence
criminality can’t be proven. The Dems then would say something like, “Nothing
to see here – just move on and forget about it.”
BUT Conservatives and the non-Establishment GOP must dig in
their heels and toss aside obstructionists in government (law enforcement
and elected officials) by any legal means necessary. Executive Branch
obstructionists need to be fired – forget about the Dem lies of cover-up. It is
obvious the largest cover-up is among Dems and their stealth bureaucracy in the
Executive Branch held over from treasonous Obama. Also, legal investigative
procedures against Obstructionist Dems and Establishment Republicans.
Well, those are my thoughts. Below is a number of sources
that inspired my lack of faith in a government hampered by Deep State/Secret
Society unconstitutional activity against a duly elected President of the
United States – Donald J. Trump.
Two top FBI officials
under fire for exchanging anti-Trump text messages during the 2016 election
spoke of a “secret society” the day after President Trump's victory,
according to two lawmakers with knowledge of the messages.
Peter Strzok -- a top
counterintelligence official involved in both the Hillary Clinton email probe
and FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe -- exchanged more than
50,000 messages with senior FBI lawyer Lisa Page, with whom he was romantically
involved.
House Oversight and
Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., and Rep. John
Ratcliffe, R-Texas, said Monday that among the messages the pair exchanged
are references to a “secret society” within the Department of Justice and the
FBI.
“We learned today about information
that in the immediate aftermath of [Trump’s] election, that there may have been
a secret society of folks within the Department of Justice and the FBI -- to
include Page and Strzok -- that would be working against him,” Ratcliffe said
Monday on Fox News' “The Story with Martha MacCallum.”
“I’m not saying that actually
happened, but when folks speak in those terms, they need to come forward to
explain the context with which they used those terms,” he added.
Gowdy said the “secret
society” reference occurred the day after Trump won the presidential election
in November 2016.
“There’s a text exchange
between these two FBI agents, these two supposed to be objective fact-centric
FBI agents, saying that perhaps this is the first meeting of the ‘secret
society,'” Gowdy said.
“So of course I’m going to
want to know what secret society you’re 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," he said.
It isn’t the first time the
messages have raised questions about what may have been going on at the FBI. In
one previously released message, Strzok appeared to make reference to an
“insurance policy” against a Trump win.
'So of course I’m going to want to know what
secret society you’re 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.' -Rep.
Trey Gowdy
“I want to believe the path
you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office — that there’s no way he gets
elected — but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk. It’s like an insurance policy
in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40…” he wrote.
According to theWall Street Journal, Strzok
claims the message was addressing a colleague who felt the FBI could take its
time with allegations of Trump/Russia collusion because Democratic nominee
Hillary Clinton was thought certain to win.
"Andy," meanwhile,
may have been a reference to FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who is at the
center of new tensions with the Trump administration.
Axios reportedlate Monday that Attorney General Jeff Sessions,
urged by President Trump, has been pressuring FBI Director Christopher Wray to
fire McCabe.
The outlet reported that Wray
threatened to resign if McCabe was fired. White House Counsel Don McGahn
reportedly told Sessions that McCabe wasn’t worth losing the FBI director over
and risking another media firestorm like when Trump axed former director James
Comey last year.
The developments come as the
DOJ announced that the FBI “failed to preserve” five months of texts between
Strzok and Page.
“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,” Sessions
said in a statement provided to Fox News. “If we are successful, we will update
the congressional committees immediately.”
The missing messages from
Strzok and Page span a crucial window, between the presidential transition and
the launch of Mueller’s Russia probe. Strzok was removed from the probe by
Mueller after he learned of the messages.
On Tuesday, President
Trumpdescribedthe
missing messages as "one of the biggest stories in a long time."
Fox News’ Brooke Singman
and Jake Gibson contributed to this report.
Adam Shaw is a Politics
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New text messages from
anti-Trump FBI agents reviewed by investigators reportedly make reference to a
"secret society," in what could be the nail in the coffin for special
counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.
Investigators have reviewed
50,000 text messages on FBI servers looking for all exchanges between
anti-Trump FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page during the 2016
election,Fox
Newsreported. The revelation comes as investigators are
seeking the whereabouts of approximately five months' worth of text messages
between Page and Strzok.
House Oversight and
Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy told Fox News on Monday that
one of the newly-revealed text messages spoke of a "secret society."
"The day after the
election, the day after what they really, really didn't want to have happen,
there's a text exchange between [Strzok and Page] ... saying, 'Perhaps this is
the first meeting of the secret society,'" Gowdy said. "So, of course
I'm going to want to know: What 'secret society' are you talking about?"
The thousands of texts @TGowdySC
and I reviewed today revealed manifest bias among top FBI officials against
@realDonaldTrump.
The texts between Strzok and Page referenced a "secret
society."
Attorney General Jeff
Sessions' Department of Justice is doing everything in its power to retrieve
the missing text messages and to get to the bottom of what happened.
"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,"
Sessions told Fox News. "If we are successful, we will update the
congressional committees immediately."
"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, 2017 to May 17, 2017,"
Sessions continued. Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel in the Russia
investigation on May 17.
Former Chief Asst. U.S.
Attorney Andrew McCarthy noted that Sessions was not clear on whether the
50,000 text messages were all between Strozk [sic] and Page.
Many commenters saying 50K texts
between Strzok and Page. Maybe, but I don’t think Sessions statement is clear
on that. I took him to be saying they reviewed 50K total text messages on
server, not that they were all between Strzok &
Page.
One of the most shocking text
messagesrevealedthus
far was from Strzok to Page and mentioned an "insurance policy" in
case Trump won:
“I
want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in [deputy FBI
director Andrew McCabe’s] office that there's no way he gets elected -- but I'm
afraid we can't take that risk. It's like an insurance policy in the unlikely
event you die before you're 40…”
Regarding the "insurance
policy" text message, The Daily Wire's Ben Shapirowrote:
"This looks an awful lot like motivation for launching an investigation
into Trump in order to sink Trump as a hedge against Trump’s victory. The FBI’s
investigation into Russian governmental interference in the election began in
July 2016, just weeks before Strzok’s text message. And that means that there
is now more of a smoking gun of FBI corruption against Trump than there is of
Trump colluding with Russia."
House Oversight Committee
Chairman Trey Gowdy(R-S.C.) on
Monday raised concerns that the two FBI agents who privately
exchanged text messages disparaging President Trumpmentioned a "secret society"
shortly after the Republican candidate won the election.
Gowdy joins a chorus of Republicans
who are upset over texts between FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer
Lisa Page, with some claiming they serve as proof of the
bureau's bias against Trump in the probes into Russian election meddling,
as well as intoHillary Clinton's use of a
private email server while secretary of State.
Strzok, who spoke in openly
derisive terms about Trump, served on both investigations before being removed
from the Russia probe by special counsel Robert Mueller.
"The day after the
election ... 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,'" Gowdy said on Fox News's "The
Story with Martha MacCallum."
"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,"
he continued.
Gowdy also pointing
to his concern about their mention of an "insurance policy"
in their back-and-forth during the spring of 2016, a remark that
has captured Republicans' attention.
Mueller removed the agents
from his team after news of their critical messages surfaced, but
Republicans continue to argue the agents reveal a prejudice against Trump
within the FBI.
Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas), a House Judiciary Committee
member, also indicated that the existence of a secret society within the
government raises red flags that top officials were working
against Trump.
"We learned today about
information that in the immediate aftermath of his election, there may have
been a 'secret society' of folks within the Department of Justice and the FBI,
to include Page and Strzok, working against him. I'm not saying that actually
happened, but when folks speak in those terms, they need to come forward to
explain the context," Ratcliffe said on Fox with Gowdy by his side.
The Texas lawmaker said he is
not bothered that Strzok and Page had an "intense anti-Trump bias,"
as long as they put their personal feelings aside and performed
properly and fairly in their job.
The FBI told lawmakers
in a letter over the weekend that the bureau did not have a record of
messages exchanged over a roughly five-month period between Strzok and Page,
citing problems with the bureau's issued mobile phones.
The announcement further
fueled the scrutiny of Republicans, who are calling for efforts to track down
the missing messages.
Ratcliffe indicated
that their disappearance appears suspicious.
"It is possible these
text messages that are missing, perhaps they really were lost. Perhaps it is
another strange coincidence," Ratcliffe said, adding that it "is
harder and harder for us to explain one strange coincidence after
another."
Republicans have also sought
to draw attention to the text messages as a sign that the investigation is
politically motivated against the president, while Democrats accuse their
colleagues of attempting to undermine the Russia probe, which is looking into
possible ties between Trump campaign aides and Russia.
Attorney General Jeff Sessionson Monday announced the Justice Department
will investigatethe missing text messages, a
decision that comes after he faced pressure from the White House
and GOP lawmakers to look into the matter.
“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,"
Sessions said in a statement.
The president and his allies
have described Mueller's Russia investigation as a "witch hunt."
