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-Lurid Crime Tales-

Peter Strzok would like to clear a few things up

2020-09-06

In which POLITICO attempts to rescue the sorry mess that Mr. Strzok, et al made in their attempt to reverse the 2016 election.

[Politico] "I’m sorry to bother you. But it turns out Trump just accused me of treason."

Peter Strzok, who was still an FBI employee that day in January 2018 and couldn’t respond to the president’s attack, was appealing to his boss: "The bureau can’t let this stand," he pleaded.

"I’m sorry, Pete," came the response. "We’re not going to say anything."

Nearly three years later, Strzok — who led the FBI’s Russia investigation, dubbed Crossfire Hurricane, until he was removed over several anti-Trump texts

...hundreds or thousands, actually — I don’t exactly recall the appalling number, just that it’s a wonder he got any work done at all...

he’d sent during the election amid an affair with a colleague — is finally able to speak publicly and on his terms for the first time since he joined the FBI more than two decades ago.

And he has a lot to say.

No doubt. Did he run the manuscript by management before release, or is that only a CIA thing?

Strzok’s new book, obtained by POLITICO ahead of its release next week, recaps the full arc of Crossfire Hurricane from the perspective of an enterprising

..that’s one word, certainly, though not one on my list for him...

counterintelligence expert who perceived Donald Trump and his campaign team not necessarily as criminals but as compromised by a foreign adversary. And he worries that there’s still much we don’t know, because the bureau was never able to do the kind of deep dive into Trump’s business records he wanted.

Perhaps he should have consulted Robert Mueller’s team — they spent two years and tens of millions of dollars investigating the question, followed by Attorney General William Barr, Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz, and Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Lindsey Graham investigating the Mueller investigation.

The investigation began as a pure counterintelligence inquiry — an attempt to understand who, if anyone, on Trump’s campaign team had been offered help by Russia to undermine Hillary Clinton. The probe kicked off with a tip from an Australian diplomat, Alexander Downer, who told the FBI that he had heard from a Trump campaign staffer about a Russian overture to the campaign after the leak of hacked Democratic National Committee emails.

The FBI’s probe soon zeroed in on four possibilities of who might have received that offer, according to Strzok: Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, foreign policy advisers Carter Page and George Papadopoulos, and soon-to-be national security adviser Michael Flynn. It turned out to have been Papadopoulos. But by the time they figured that out, Trump had been elected president — and Strzok’s team had uncovered so many suspicious contacts and communications between the campaign and Russians that they began debating whether to open a case on Trump himself.

Posted by:Besoeker

#14 Peter buddy - I admire the attempt at pre-sales hype, but your book's still gonna sell like day old dogshit.

There's a slush fund ready to go to make it a "best seller" at least for the first week or two.

Posted by: charger 2020-09-06 15:38

#13 Strzok’s new book, sent by Strzok to ~~obtained by~~ POLITICO ahead of its release next week,...

Peter buddy - I admire the attempt at pre-sales hype, but your book's still gonna sell like day old dogshit.

Posted by: Raj 2020-09-06 15:30

#12 I think I can save you the trouble of buying and reading the book - "I am a true patriot, and OrangeManBad."

You're welcome!

Posted by: Bobby 2020-09-06 15:17

#11 Strzok got something straight with Lisa Page apparently.

Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2020-09-06 14:48

#10 If Strz says "I want to get something straight between us" just back away.

Posted by: charger 2020-09-06 12:51

#9 Biden has an insurmountable lead in the all-important "Traitor" demographic.

Posted by: Matt 2020-09-06 12:48

#8 Judas?

Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-09-06 12:04

#7 Traitor seems like a good term to use with regards to this guy (Strzok).

Posted by: JohnQC 2020-09-06 11:36

#6 'A noisy gong or a clanging cymbal' if not immediately followed by Seppuku.

That's a ceremony for honorable people who feel shame about something they've done or failed to do. It is not the way sociopaths like Strzok roll. His feelings are expressed by that smirk in the graphic.

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2020-09-06 11:11

#5 I will not put a copy of that book right next to my non-copy of Comey's book. I am not a big fan of fiction anyway.

Posted by: Clem 2020-09-06 11:06

#4 Strzok’s new book, obtained by POLITICO ahead of its release next week

Did they pay for it? If so they might be the only ones.

Posted by: Matt 2020-09-06 10:51

#3 'A noisy gong or a clanging cymbal' if not immediately followed by Seppuku.

Posted by: Besoeker 2020-09-06 09:04

#2 Attempting a coup against the Constitutionally elected President of the United States. Pretty clear.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-09-06 08:53

#1 Lock him up

Posted by: Spolutle Pholuth6148 2020-09-06 08:53

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