Posted on 11/19/2019 1:42:12 PM PST by Yo-Yo
Full title: "Russia case agent Strzok cited for misconduct, security violation and exceptionally poor judgment in FBI memos"
This summer, ex-FBI agent Peter Strzok filed a lawsuit suggesting his firing was political retribution for having run the bureaus counterintelligence investigation into the now debunked allegations that Donald Trump and Russia colluded to hijack the 2016 election.
The Justice Department has responded to the lawsuit in a big way, releasing to the court presiding over the civil case Strzoks official misconduct file that concluded the former FBI supervisor exhibited a gross lack of professionalism and exceptionally poor judgment.
It shows the FBI substantiated that Strzok had engaged in dereliction of duty, had committed misconduct through the expression of anti-Trump bias on his official FBI phone and committed security violations by performing official government work on personal email.
The records show one official recommended termination, and another recommended suspension for 60 days without pay. The bureau leadership chose the more severe of the two penalties, terminating Strzok last year.
The dereliction of duty citation involved Strzoks failure, according to the FBI, to quickly follow up in fall 2016 after the belated discovery of a trove of Hillary Clinton emails on a laptop belonging to former Congressman Anthony Weiner and his wife, Clinton aide Huma Abedin.
Strzok was supervising the investigation of whether Clintons use of personal email for classified State Department matters created a security risk, and his failure caused an unnecessary delay to evaluate the new evidence just weeks before Election Day, the FBI concluded.
The disciplinary file included testimony from one of Strzoks colleagues, a fellow agent, about the failure to respond to the discovery of emails. The crickets I was hearing was making me uncomfortable because something was going to come crashing down, the agent testified. .I still to this day dont understand what the hell went wrong.
The agent testified he feared somebody was not acting appropriately, somebody was trying to bury this discovery of new Clinton email evidence, the files show.
Strzok offered a bevy of excuses for his inaction, including he was busy working the Trump-Russia case at the time. All were rejected. The investigation reveals that there is no reasonable excuse for the FBIs delay in following up on this matter, the disciplinary file concluded.
The FBI also cited Strzok for a violation of security protocols for conducting bureau business on personal email and personal devices, putting his sensitive counterintelligence work at risk of compromise.
The investigation uncovered numerous occasions in which you used your personal email account, the final findings concluded.
But the disciplinary letter to Strzok that preceded his firing saved its harshest words for his expression of anti-Trump bias in official government text messages with FBI lawyer Lisa Page while they were having an affair.
The disciplinary file shows the FBI believed Strzoks political statements on his official government phone while overseeing the Russia collusion and Clinton email probe may have caused the bureau its most lasting damage.
The letter cited pages of the most egregious texts where Strzok and Page railed against Trump and even suggested they would use their powers to have an insurance policy or to stop him from becoming president.
Your excessive, repeated and politically charged text messages, while you were assigned as the lead case agent on the FBIs two biggest and most politically sensitive investigations in decades, demonstrated a gross lack of professionalism and exceptionally poor judgment, the FBI wrote Strzok.
Your misconduct cast a pall over the FBIs Clinton email and Russia investigations and the work of the Special Counsel. The immeasurable harm done to the reputation of the FBI will not be easily overcome, the letter added.
Your misconduct cast a pall over the FBIs Clinton email and Russia investigations and the work of the Special Counsel. The immeasurable harm done to the reputation of the FBI will not be easily overcome, the letter added.
Was Strzok the problem, or was he only a symptom of the overall anti-Trump sentiment within the FBI that persists to this day?
I find it almost impossible to believe that the FBI - who are trained to observe behaviors in other people - failed to pick up on Strzok's anti-Trump opinions before the DOJ IG released the Strzok-Page text messages.
Was Strzok the problem, or was he only a symptom of the overall anti-Trump sentiment within the FBI that persists to this day?
I say the second case, and expect the FIB to kick Strzok fully under the bus.
OK...so, now, how will he be held accountable?
This dweeb didn’t realize that when you attack the king, you must make sure you take out the king or the king will take you out.
That is exactly what happened
If this dweeb thought he would be able to keep his job after what he did, he is delusional. He should be doing time in a federal prison if you ask me.
He should be prosecuted. Maybe he and the others will be.
But at least he was fired for gross misconduct.
He wants his job back so he can spy and cause more Chaos
Wonder if he will be mentioned in the upcoming IG report?
I thought strzok dropped this lawsuit after the russia/Trump fisa investigation went criminal?
Even after all of the very damaging words in this 27 page report Ms Candace Will only recommended that Strzok be suspended without pay for 2 months and be demoted from his supervisor position.
The voters should be incensed at the gall of the Federal Government employees who believe nobody can be FIRED immediately for activities that are most likely criminal.
The Strozak suit is intended to smoke out the government position on him going forwardthey are in trouble because what was learned is enough to lose the law suit but not to prevent conviction
“””””””””””Was Strzok the problem, or was he only a symptom of the overall anti-Trump sentiment within the FBI that persists to this day?”””””””””””””””””””
My wife works for the State. If she mentioned that she voted for Trump they would throw her out the window. She knows to never reveal that she is a conservative.
These people like Strozk have bosses who give orders. Those bosses approve expense reports, review activities, and make appropriations. While I’d like to see Strizks head on a pike atop a Walmart sign, he is a small fish in a big swamp.
If you do somthing that gets you fired from the fbi, the same thing would get you 10 years in prison in the private sector.
Fed doj is total BS.
Fine. When can we expect an arrest? Whats that, you say? The 12th. of Never?
Strokes wife got his phone and found out he was cheating. Counter intelligence pro? My ass.
Crossfire Hurricane has an architect. That’s where you start. Swamp Roundup killer is needed in generous applications. Get the roots and all.
Oh ye of little faith
Why do you think the President is stupid?
Yawn. They covered for and took good care of him here.
Potts and Horriuchi got corner plush offices in Quantico for their roles in the Weaver family murders and later under Janet Reno for their handiwork. They should have been serving life in prison. What kind of example are they to jerks like Strozk? The whole system is a swampy cancer extending out for decades if unchecked.
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