12-04-2017, 11:42 PM
Today it was reported by the New York Times and the Washington Post that a top level FBI counter-intelligence agent and a top level FBI lawyer exchanged texts that could be perceived as negative towards then-candidate Trump. The texts were reportedly in response to Trump's FBI bashing and threats to jail his political opponent during the campaign. The agent and the lawyer were having an affair and both worked on the Clinton server investigation.
CNN later reported that the agent was responsible for changing then FBI Director James Comey's description of Clinton's handling of classified information on a private server from 'grossly negligent' to 'extremely careless'. The former possibly having criminal implications, the latter not.
I want to see the content of those texts, but they haven't been made available and I don't know if they will be. It could be just normal frustration about their organization being bashed, without having impacted their ability to do their jobs objectively. Or, it could be that the agent wrongly minimized Clinton's server liability. We don't know.
Mueller found out about the text exchanges and removed the agent, Peter Strzok, from the Russia investigation early on. Strozk was demoted to a role in HR. The female lawyer with whom he was romantically involved, Lisa Page, left sometime earlier. None of it appears to directly relate to the charges against Manafort, Baker, Papadopoulos and Flynn in the Russian Interference probe, nor whether there was collaboration between the campaign and the Russians. But, I'm posting it here because I have no doubt it will all be conflated by many.
As the world turns............
Refs:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/02/us/po....html?_r=0
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/...story.html
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/04/politics/p...index.html
CNN later reported that the agent was responsible for changing then FBI Director James Comey's description of Clinton's handling of classified information on a private server from 'grossly negligent' to 'extremely careless'. The former possibly having criminal implications, the latter not.
I want to see the content of those texts, but they haven't been made available and I don't know if they will be. It could be just normal frustration about their organization being bashed, without having impacted their ability to do their jobs objectively. Or, it could be that the agent wrongly minimized Clinton's server liability. We don't know.
Mueller found out about the text exchanges and removed the agent, Peter Strzok, from the Russia investigation early on. Strozk was demoted to a role in HR. The female lawyer with whom he was romantically involved, Lisa Page, left sometime earlier. None of it appears to directly relate to the charges against Manafort, Baker, Papadopoulos and Flynn in the Russian Interference probe, nor whether there was collaboration between the campaign and the Russians. But, I'm posting it here because I have no doubt it will all be conflated by many.
As the world turns............
Refs:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/02/us/po....html?_r=0
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/...story.html
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/04/politics/p...index.html