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Strzok/Page Texts Suggest Effort to Recruit White House Staffers to Spy on Trump Team
2019-04-26
[PJ] Communications between two former FBI officials nine days after the 2016 election regarding a briefing with Vice President-elect Pence have attracted fresh scrutiny from top Senate Republicans, Fox News reported Thursday.

The text messages, exchanged between FBI lovebirds Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, "may show potential attempts by the FBI to conduct surveillance of President-elect Trump's transition team" wrote Sen. Charles Grassley, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Sen. Ron Johnson, chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security, in a letter to Attorney General William Barr Thursday.

To be clear, the texts may show that top officials at the FBI were attempting to recruit staffers to spy on the Trump transition team.

In the letter, the senators wrote that they wanted to bring the matter to Barr's attention to assist his review into the "genesis and conduct of intelligence activities directed at the Trump campaign during 2016." According to the letter:
Posted by:Besoeker

#3  Last week, I scanned much of Priestap's June 2018 testimony before the House Judiciary Committee. He insisted, though he did not know much - his job being so expansive and broad, you know - he knew that Strzok was one of the best in the business of counterintelligence. "Top men in the field. Top men."
Posted by: Bobby   2019-04-26 15:33  

#2  Looking like Barry knew, was briefed in to the active treason too.
Posted by: Woodrow   2019-04-26 15:02  

#1  The text messages, exchanged between FBI lovebirds

"Lovebirds" ? I doubt it. Has anyone ever said what their Bureau 'day job' actually was? Clandestine intelligence source recruitment is an intense, time consuming business.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-04-26 01:19  

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