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| The FBI Lost 5 Months Worth of Text Messages Between Anti-Trump Agents |
| 2018-01-22 |
| [Daily Caller via Townhall] The Daily Caller reports that the FBI "failed to preserve five months of text messages" exchanged between two anti-Trump FBI employees who may have compromised on going investigations such as the Clinton e-mail scandal and the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. The Daily Caller’s Chuck Ross reports that "The disclosure was made Friday in a letter sent by the Justice Department to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC). 'The Department wants to bring to your attention that the FBI’s technical system for retaining text messages sent and received on FBI mobile devices failed to preserve text messages for Mr. Strzok and Ms. Page,' Stephen Boyd, the assistant attorney general for legislative affairs at the Justice Department, wrote to Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, the chairman of HSGAC He said that texts are missing for the period between Dec. 14, 2016 and May 17, 2017." As this author previously noted, according to the Washington Post, Strzok's actions may have influenced other investigations, such as the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's illegal e-mail use. The "text messages with a colleague" the Times refers to is regarding messages critical of President Trump exchanged with FBI attorney Lisa Page, with whom Strzok was having an affair. Related: Daily Caller - FBI Agents Spoke Of ‘Pressure’ To Wrap Up Clinton Probe As Trump Surged To GOP Nomination |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #15 Congress should pass a bill to change the FBI building name from J Eager Hoover to Samuel Richard ‘Sandy’ Berger. |
| Posted by: Airandee 2018-01-22 19:22 |
| #14 |
| Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2018-01-22 17:18 |
| #13 I don't believe this for one second. There ought to be a law against offering up such crap to the public. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-01-22 17:10 |
| #12 Over at PJ Media, Stephen Greene writes: "The FBI didn't come up with a lame excuse because that's all they could come up with. They came up with a lame excuse because they think that's all they need." This is the crux of the matter. Who is going to call them on it? Sure, there will be lots of huffing and puffing and outrage, but I'm betting the answer is no one. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2018-01-22 15:06 |
| #11 No way the text messages are lost if they have the cell phones. The text messages are on the phones if they have them. If the phones have been disposed of, then there is a real cover up. |
| Posted by: Tennessee 2018-01-22 12:10 |
| #10 What other people did they lose texts for? Is this common or a Seth Rich event? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2018-01-22 11:34 |
| #9 He said that the dog ate the messages for the period between Dec. 14, 2016 and May 17, 2017 Let me guess: the dog also ate the backup tapes. Hey, let's ask the Russians if they have copies. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2018-01-22 10:45 |
| #8 Remember how they flipped out when Nixon lost 18 minutes worth of tape? |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2018-01-22 10:34 |
| #7 Worked for IRS. No demands for firings despite Trey's legal rants. Consequences of bark and no bite. Blame the Republicans. Me thinks having a spine might help. Or at least bring white flags into the committees and stop wasting our times. |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2018-01-22 09:46 |
| #6 I thought NSA had copies of all of that stuff. It would take the combined efforts of several agencies to completely "lose" a bunch of text messages sent back and forth across official use cellphones. Those text messages must be dynamite for the FBI and others to delete them, I wonder when they were deleted? Probably about the time the last batch was discovered. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-01-22 09:37 |
| #5 Dunno. See paragraph #1 HERE which specifically acknowledges receipt of the "missing" emails by Michael E. Horowitz of the IG office: "Following our review of those text messages, the OIG expanded our request to the FBI to include all text messages between Strzok and Page from November 30, 2016, through the date of the document request, which was July 28, 2017. The OIG received these additional messages on August 10, 2017." |
| Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2018-01-22 09:28 |
| #4 And to think, the Dems went nuts over Nixon's Rosemary Woods losing some fifteen minutes of tape. |
| Posted by: Clurong Peacock9529 2018-01-22 08:58 |
| #3 He said that texts are missing for the period between Dec. 14, 2016 and May 17, 2017." ...That's technically accurate - if they don't exist any more, they are in fact 'missing'. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2018-01-22 08:08 |
| #2 He said that texts are missing for the period between Dec. 14, 2016 and May 17, 2017." A truly amazing coincidence. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-01-22 07:03 |
| #1 The Ole' Lois Lerner trick. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2018-01-22 06:59 |