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2019-09-02 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Deep State's Page, Strzok Conducted FBI's Review to Classify Comey's Memos
[Breitbart] NEW YORK ‐ Former FBI employees Lisa Page and Peter Strzok, the once romantically-linked duo infamous for their anti-Trump text messages, conducted the initial agency review of disgraced ex-FBI chief James Comey’s memos to determine whether the documents contained any potentially classified information.

Working on the initial classification review with Page and Strzok was another member of Comey’s inner circle, James A. Baker, the former FBI general counsel.

Those details were contained inside the report released last Thursday by the Justice Department’s inspector-general.

The IG report related that Strzok characterized himself, Page, Baker, and the Unit Chief of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Law Unit in the FBI’s Office of General Counsel as a "logical subset to sit and go through" Comey’s memos memorializing his conversations with Trump to determine classification.

Strzok told the FBI that it made sense that this team conducted the initial classification review because the members had a lot of "history and experience of working investigations relating to ... the disclosure of classified information," including the FBI’s Clinton email investigation.

That would be the same Clinton email investigation that became the subject of a separate 500-plus page IG report in June 2018 that was highly critical of actions taken by Comey and his team.

The IG report described an extraordinary system of communication set up between Page and former deputy director Andrew McCabe that bypassed the ordinary chain of command to communicate important information about the agency’s probe of Clinton’s email server. The method of communication involved Strzok, who was romantically involved with Page, sending information on the Clinton probe to McCabe through Page, the previous IG report found.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-09-02 00:25|| || Front Page|| [10 views ]  Top

#1 Shitshow.

Absolute, complete, shitshow.

What a disgrace.
Posted by Lex 2019-09-02 00:44||   2019-09-02 00:44|| Front Page Top

#2 W T F !
Posted by Dron66046 2019-09-02 04:42||   2019-09-02 04:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Still no indictments, but we do have this:

Peter Strzok sues over firing for anti-Trump texts.

The former FBI agent who opened the bureau’s Russia probe says the government violated his First and Fifth Amendment rights.

Peter Strzok, the former FBI agent who opened the bureau’s Russia probe in 2016 and later became a symbol of alleged “deep state” animus for Donald Trump, is suing the government over his firing.

In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday, Strzok excoriates the Justice Department and FBI for their handling of his dismissal over a trove of text messages he wrote to a colleague that were critical of Trump. Strzok accuses the president of inappropriately bullying law enforcement officials deciding his fate, raises questions about why his texts were leaked to the media and lambastes the administration for only defending its employees’ free speech rights when they are praising Trump.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-09-02 06:43||   2019-09-02 06:43|| Front Page Top

#4 raises questions about why his texts were leaked to the media

Unbelievable. We have a new definition of chutzpah.
Posted by Lex 2019-09-02 09:41||   2019-09-02 09:41|| Front Page Top

#5 FBI: Mr. Strzok, how exactly did you and Ms. Page communicate?

Strzok: Err, you might call it a system based on Morse code?
Posted by gorb 2019-09-02 11:05||   2019-09-02 11:05|| Front Page Top

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