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Home Front: Politix
Nunes blows up, threatens contempt after FBI stonewalls House on Russia investigator demoted for anti-Trump bias
2017-12-03
[Washington Examiner] House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes has issued an angry demand to the FBI and Department of Justice to explain why they kept the committee in the dark over the reason Special Counsel Robert Mueller kicked a key supervising FBI agent off the Trump-Russia investigation.
Hopefully "blows up" was used in a figurative sense.
Stories in both the Washington Post and New York Times on Saturday reported that Peter Strzok, who played a key role in the original FBI investigation into the Trump-Russia matter, and then a key role in Mueller's investigation, and who earlier had played an equally critical role in the FBI's Hillary Clinton email investigation, was reassigned out of the Mueller office because of anti-Trump texts he exchanged with a top FBI lawyer, Lisa Page, with whom Strzok was having an extramarital affair. Strzok was transferred to the FBI's human resources office ‐ an obvious demotion -- in July.

The Post reported that Strzok and Page exchanged text messages that "expressed anti-Trump sentiments and other comments that appeared to favor Clinton."

Word of the messages and the affair were news to Nunes, even though the committee had issued a subpoena that covered information about Strzok's demotion more than three months ago. The committee's broadly worded subpoena for information related to the so-called Trump dossier went to the FBI and FOJ on Aug. 24. In follow-up conversations on the scope of the subpoena, committee staff told the FBI and DOJ that it included information on the circumstances of Strzok's reassignment.

Additional info on the story from Townhall at this link.
Posted by:Besoeker

#6  Hope you are right, TW.
Posted by: KBK   2017-12-03 22:21  

#5  It seems to me this is one where AG Sessions allowed the staff enough rope to hang themselves, since they would have stonewalled orders in the subject to admit to their guilt. Some problems are not amenable to straightforward solutions, but call for a modicum of guile on the part of the incoming executive to discover those responsible for given problems.
Posted by: trailing wife   2017-12-03 21:28  

#4  IMHO, A/G Sessions has been compromised so he is amounts to nothing as a placeholder. President Trump has an N front war against Dems, est pubs and deep state. This is a huge conflict and lesser men would have caved long ago.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2017-12-03 17:19  

#3  Do or do not, there is no "threaten".
Posted by: charger   2017-12-03 13:46  

#2  #1 YES, as long as they remain they will behave as a festering boil on the butt of Trump's administration. Bush playing the nice guy worked well for him. It does appear the back stabbers have been culled from the herd in the White house. Mueller having the leaks now.
Posted by: Dale   2017-12-03 08:19  

#1  Jeff Sessions needs to do his f*&king job and clear the DOJ and FBI of Dem political hacks. Fire the lot
Posted by: Frank G   2017-12-03 07:59  

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