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-Lurid Crime Tales-
OH LOOK! Justice Department Watchdog Finds ‘Lost' FBI Text Messages
2018-01-25
[Breitbart] The Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz informed lawmakers Thursday that he has found the missing five months of text messages between senior FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page that the DOJ said were lost due to a technical glitch.

In a letter to Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Horowitz wrote:

The OIG has been investigating this matter and, this week, succeeded in using forensic tools to recover text messages from FBI devices, including text messages between Mr. Strzok and Ms. Page that were sent or received between December 14, 2016, and May 17, 2017.

That time period covered a number of significant developments in the FBI’s investigation of the Trump Russia allegations and the lead-up to the special counsel, which was convened on May 17, 2017.
Posted by:Ulaigum Ebbineng7056

#5  #3Wonder if there were burners for the more criminal connectivity? They can't have been so stupid to put directly criminal text on a government cellphone, unless the level of FBI arrogance is so ingrained that they never imagined they would be examined?
Posted by: NoMoreBS 2018-01-25 18:37

"...Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity."

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2018-01-25 20:59  

#4  They were safe. Hilly was a shoe-in!
Posted by: Bobby   2018-01-25 20:37  

#3  Wonder if there were burners for the more criminal connectivity? They can't have been so stupid to put directly criminal text on a government cellphone, unless the level of FBI arrogance is so ingrained that they never imagined they would be examined?
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2018-01-25 18:37  

#2  If you locate the 'selectors' (cellies) you've probably found the data.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-01-25 14:31  

#1  From what I have read elsewhere, they found the messages archived on the cell phones in question. The messages were found on FOUR cell phones used by Strzok and Page.

Seems the IG took possession of the phones smelling a rat.

Horowitz appears to be a straight shooter but I could be wrong.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2018-01-25 14:16  

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