Posted on 01/27/2018 5:27:21 PM PST by Stingray51
The Justice Department has given Congress less than 15 percent of the texts between FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page... How many texts have been turned over? Both Justice Department and Capitol Hill sources say the total number is in the 7,000 range, which includes all the texts handed over on two separate occasions.
How many texts will be turned over? First, it's not possible to know how many texts from the Dec. 14, 2016 to May 17, 2017 time period will be recovered and turned over. But of the 50,000 the Justice Department already has in hand, officials say they have already turned over all they're going to give to Congress.
That means Justice has decided to allow Congress to see just 7,000 of a total of 50,000 Strzok-Page texts – slightly less than 15 percent of the total number of texts the Justice Department has now. Why is that? Justice Department officials point to a Jan. 19 letter from Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd to Capitol Hill investigators explaining which texts would and would not be turned over.
"The department is not providing text messages that were purely personal in nature," Boyd wrote. "Furthermore, the department has redacted from some work-related text messages portions that were purely personal. ....
Boyd said that "in a few instances," the Justice Department consulted with the office of Trump-Russia special prosecutor Robert Mueller and made some redactions "related to the structure, operation, and substance of the [Special Counsel's Office]'s investigation because it is ongoing." Hill investigators don't really know what that covers. (The letter said if Congress has questions about redactions in a particular text, the department would "work with" Congress to further describe or reveal redacted information "in a closed setting.") ....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Ummmm, they were paid for by the taxpayers. Fork `em over.
“The department is not providing text messages that were purely personal in nature,” Boyd wrote. “Furthermore, the department has redacted from some work-related text messages portions that were purely personal. ....
Oh... right... ever since Eric Holder flaunted Congressional authority.
Why is there no special investigator on this? It’s clear the alphabet agencies nor congress are capable of investigating themselves. If the parties involved were reversed, the msm would be demanding it.
Oh ....so they delay the release to pick and choose which extracted texts
to turn over. BS. Guess we need to depend on Judicial Watch AGAIN to get any information.
No such thing as a personal text on a government phone. They are all purely government texts.
Unbelievable crap. To allow Mueller, the former head of this corrupt agency with a vested interest in hiding documents that may be injurious to his “investigation” and his agency, to refuse to comply with a Congressional request is beyond belief. Pa Sessions supposedly runs the Justice Department, you’d never know it.
“related to the structure, operation, and substance of the [Special Counsel’s Office]’s investigation”. Those are precisely what we need to see. Mueller is covering up.
I can see why people turn to Q for solace. Everybody on ‘our side’ is still shivvin’ us at every turn and opportunity. Don’t tell me Jeff is so squeaky clean he can’t be brought down by us if we can get the goods on him.
IMHO, we’ve arrived at the time where we MUST recognize that much of the DOJ and FBI are an ONGOING CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE. It’s clear also that Sessions is either compromised in some fashion and forced to participate in ongoing obstructions or is WILLINGLY COMPLICIT.
It’s a sad time for our nation!
DOJ and FBI all report to the same person
If only we had a Republican President, he would order his Justice Department to release this information instead of hiding it to protect the Deep State.
Obstruction of justice.
. Yet, the DOJ is giving Mueller and his anti-Trump hatchetmen a veto over what Congress gets to see. This is actually insane and I hope the GOP congressional investigators do not take this at this face value. How on earth can Congress allow Andrew Weissman to dictate what Congress can and cannot see?
Sessions recused himself so Rosenstein is giving Mueller free reign. It’s that simple.
unfortunately
Not to mention the fact that they were probably doing most of their scheming while they were on the clock. Isn't there a government rule that your department-issued phones aren't to be used for personal communications?
An excellent way to stop romance in the workplace
p!
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