[The Hill] Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page on Friday afternoon faced a grilling from House Republicans keen to uncover any discrepancies between her testimony and Peter Strzok’s, the counterintelligence agent who testified in public for 10 hours the day before.
Where the Strzok hearing was a pageant display of the animosity and deeply divided politics surrounding the bureau, Page’s closed-door deposition led to few fireworks. She did not answer questions from reporters entering and exiting the Judiciary Committee’s closed spaces ‐ and the handful of lawmakers who conducted the interview provided few details.
Multiple Republican lawmakers described Page as cooperative and credible ‐ in marked contrast to their vituperative characterizations of Strzok ‐ and said that she answered some questions that Strzok would not.
"We certainly learned additional things today, but I can tell you that the last thing anyone wants to be is falsely accused and her willingness to cooperate today speaks well of her," said Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.). |