Posted on 01/23/2018 2:42:41 AM PST by markomalley
Congressional investigators believe they are barely beginning to answer the questions raised by the text messages between the FBI's Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. For several reasons:
1) Strzok and Page were more prolific texters than anyone knew. In a statement late Monday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said FBI investigators have found "over 50,000 texts" in their review of Strzok-Page communications.
2) Even with all those texts, the FBI says it cannot find the couple's messages between Dec. 14, 2016, and May 17, 2017 — a critical time in the Trump-Russia affair. It's probably safe to say there is not a single Republican on Capitol Hill who does not view this as a fishy set of circumstances and does not believe Congress should step up its investigation.
3) Strzok and Page didn't just text each other on their FBI-issued Samsung phones. At times in the text exchanges that have been released, either Strzok or Page suggested that they switch over to iMessage — suggesting they might have used personal, Apple phones to communicate about FBI business in addition to their bureau-provided phones. In a letter to the Justice Department Saturday, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., asked whether the FBI had "conducted searches of Mr. Strzok's and Ms. Page's non-FBI-issued communications devices or accounts."
4) Strzok and Page emailed each other on Gmail. Johnson's letter noted a Nov. 10, 2016, text from Page to Strzok that said: "Hey without thinking I replied to the email you sent me on Gmail. But it went to your Verizon. So please clear. Let me know if you want me to send it again somewhere else." On Oct. 4, 2015, Johnson noted, Strzok texted Page to say, "It's going to be ok at work. And haven't emailed you here, although I just did on gmail." Look for Congress to get in touch with Google in an attempt to see those emails.
5) The texts are filled with cryptic messages. Strzok and Page communicated in a sort of shorthand that was heavy on gossip and filled with references to whatever was happening in the office on any particular day. Amid that, there were many passages that might refer to the presidential race and the Trump-Russia investigation. The latest to catch Republican eyes is the "secret society" text from the day after the 2016 election. "There is a text exchange between these two FBI agents, these supposed-to-be fact-centric FBI agents saying, 'Perhaps this is the first meeting of the secret society,'" noted Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., on Fox News Monday night. But nobody knows if "secret society" represents something important to the investigation or something entirely innocent. Republicans might be on to something, or they might be mistaken.
In his statement Monday, an apologetic-sounding Sessions vowed to "leave no stone unturned" in searching for the missing texts. The Justice Department will "use every technology available to determine whether the missing messages are recoverable from another source," Sessions said. "A review is already underway to ascertain what occurred and to determine if these records can be recovered in any other way. If any wrongdoing were to be found to have caused this gap, appropriate legal disciplinary action measures will be taken."
A skeptical and suspicious Congress is waiting to see what Sessions finds.
No time for dancing, or lovey dovey,
I ain’t got time for that now
Transmit the message, to the receiver,
Hope for an answer some day*
I got three passports, a couple of visas,
You don’t even know my real name**
(Talking Heads were ahead of their time. * Reference to Nellie Ohr. ** McCabe getting ready to flee the country?)
Just saw on Fox that these missing FBI texts are things that almost nobody knows about. The MSM hasn’t covered the subject at all. “ZERO seconds” of coverage by NBC, CBS, and NBC.
ABC’s Big Story: Super Bowl LII
CBS’s Big Story: Minnie Mouse’s star on the Walk of Fame
NBC’s Big Story: Another U.K. Royal Wedding
Russian collusion BS....the only collusion was the dnc hellary fbi intelligence services bammy lynch holder state and justus colluding to prevent djt from becoming president and trying to pull off a coup after he was elected despite all the election cheating....this is totally unacceptable and heads must roll...if these people are above the law then all of us are...
But they are not lost.
Verizon or AT&T or Sprint, etc. has them all safe and sound on their servers/backups.
Lois Lerner is still laughing at us if that's an indicator.
And, you're still paying her $102,600 a year pension for the rest of her life.
I’m hoping against hope that Sessions, having recused himself from direct involvement in anything “Russian”, is working with Horowitz (DOJ IG) behind the scenes as puppet master in ferreting out all of this “missing” information.
With that in mind, having been accused of being very “jaded” due to my exposure to some pretty nasty scheisse inside and outside of the US and keeping in mind that hope is not a strategy, I remain [very] cautiously optimistic.
Do the Senators have any power or authority with the DOJ to get the ball rolling on finding the texts?
Let’s keep in mind that both the NSA and the FBI have their own tools to monitor and store communications like text messages. In the Bureau’s case, they had the CARNIVORE system, which evolved into DCS-1000 (sounds much less ominous and threatening than something that eats meat) and now DCS-3000. Those texts are not “lost” - even if they weren’t saved on mobile devices (which I highly doubt)...
Someone should leak that they found the messages and it talks about killing Trump. I bet he messages will magically show up the very next day.
Why are Lisa Page, Peter Strozk and several others involved in this conspiracy still able to report to work each day at the FBI? This provides them with the potential to destroy evidence. Strozk was assigned to HR duties about which has no expertise so why wasn’t he placed on administrative leave. What is Lisa Page doing on behalf of we taxpayers, and where is she? How did she and Strozk have time to exchange thousands of texts, meet for trysts and earn their grossly inflated salaries?
The obvious answer is they didn’t.
Pee Pee dosier
I would love to be surprised.
But, I won’t.
I see a pattern here....
Sessions needs to un-recuse and man up, or step aside.
verizon retention of text messages-10 days
I overheard a conversation by a guy who seemed to be russian
the other day saying just that
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