Posted on 12/05/2017 8:03:38 AM PST by PJ-Comix
Some truths here: Mueller already knew the FBI’s Peter Strzok didn’t like President Donald Trump yet still hired him, according to FBI and DOJ sources.
But that has little to do with why Strzok was expelled from the Special Counsel’s team.
Embattled FBI Section Chief Strzok has been labeled in recent days as Trump-hating gigolo who had a salacious sexual affair with a married FBI lawyer and for those reasons he could no longer serve on the investigative team of U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
Yet that, again, has little to do with the real reasons Mueller sacked FBI’s Strzok, a high ranking section chief, sources in the FBI and DOJ said.
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hey thanks.
this is the 3rd different picture identifying Strzok.
I will be assuming this on is correct.
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>> “ Mueller already knew the FBI’s Peter Strzok didn’t like President Donald Trump yet still hired him, according to FBI and DOJ sources.” <<
Its important to keep your enemies where you can see what they are doing!
One malefactor neutralized; how many more to go?
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To fire a federal civil servant is a long drawn out process.
Be patient.
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The HR department is the perfect place for a vindictive, unethical little prick like this.
Not to insult my HR friends, but…
I teach online business courses for a university. I normally have students that are in a business logistics or supply chain management track.
A few years ago, I had an entire class of undergrads working on Business HR degrees.
I have never had so many problems. The basic problem was that each thought they were the smartest person in the world. In fact, they were the waaaaaaaaaaaaaay below the standard class.
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Who posed for the photo???????
Whatever it is, stop consuming it!
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My Father-in-law (retired) was one of them.
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Same old excuse. "He might be under investigation". "The FBI can't say anything about him or it will compromise and possible investigation".
Meanwhile Mueller destroys the life of General Flynn based on an interview conducted by Strzok. Certainly this covered up information would have been useful to General Flynn in his defense.
The FBI is corrupt at the top, and this "we can't provide information" excuse is used way too often.
I've heard another story regarding the Strzok "reassignment": that the anti-Trump texts exchanged with his mistress were uncovered by the ongoing inspector general's investigation of the FBI and DOJ, and when brought to Mueller's attention, Strzok was relieved of his position in counter-intelligence and demoted to the FBI's HR Department. I buy this only so much: Mueller must have know Strzok was anti-Trump - Mueller only hired on people who were anti-Trump - so that fact must have come as no surprise. But I do think the IG investigation uncovered something - something big enough to bust the top FBI counter-intelligence officer down to HR. What that might be remains a mystery for now, but it was certainly something more significant than anti-Trump texts with his mistress.
BTW, the DOJ IG who is doing the Leaks investigation is an Obama appointee.
Michael E. Horowitz was confirmed as Inspector General for the Department of Justice (DOJ) by the U.S. Senate on March 29, 2012, and sworn in as the fourth confirmed Inspector General on April 16, 2012. Since 2015, he has simultaneously served as the Chair of the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE).
As Inspector General, Mr. Horowitz oversees a nationwide workforce of more than 450 special agents, auditors, inspectors, attorneys, and support staff whose mission is to detect and deter waste, fraud, abuse, and misconduct in DOJ programs and personnel, and to promote economy and efficiency in Department operations.
Prior to serving as Inspector General, Mr. Horowitz worked as a partner at Cadwalader, Wickersham, & Taft LLP, where he focused his practice on white collar defense, internal investigations, and regulatory compliance. He also was a board member of the Ethics Resource Center and the Society for Corporate Compliance and Ethics. From 2003 to 2009, Mr. Horowitz served as a Presidentially-appointed and Senate-confirmed Commissioner on the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
Mr. Horowitz previously worked for DOJ in the Criminal Division at Main Justice from 1999 to 2002, first as Deputy Assistant Attorney General and then as Chief of Staff. Prior to joining the Criminal Division, he was an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1991 to 1999. From 1997 to 1999, Mr. Horowitz was the Chief of the Public Corruption Unit, and from 1995 to 1997, he was a Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division. In 1995, he was awarded the Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service for his work on a complex police corruption investigation.
Before joining the DOJ, Mr. Horowitz was an associate at Debevoise & Plimpton and clerked for Judge John G. Davies of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
Mr. Horowitz earned his Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School and his Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, from Brandeis University.
As if Mueller is going after bad guys??
Ahh, nice to see the truth come out.
Every person on Mueller’s team is a Clinton backer... and those folks would NEVER give a damn about a member trashing Trump.
Feeding stuff to the Washington Post makes more sense.
They don't do HR work. It is a holding tank while the problem is adjudicated. In the interim, the person may be detailed to other elements to do pedestrian things just to create the impression that they are earning their salaries.
WASHINGTON – Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to key Administration posts:
Michael E. Horowitz – Inspector General, Department of Justice
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The fact that Strzok has been sent to HR, which is a holding tank for people who can't be reassigned until their problem is resolved, speaks volumes to me as someone who spent 36 years working for the federal government. Strzok is unassignable within the FBI because he is probably under investigation.
Meanwhile Mueller destroys the life of General Flynn based on an interview conducted by Strzok. Certainly this covered up information would have been useful to General Flynn in his defense.
And Flynn's legal team will take note of this and use it I am sure. Flynn was entrapped by Strzok. Why Flynn was even interviewed is puzzling since the FBI knew exactly what happened during Flynn's conversations with the Russian ambassador. They had the recordings.
The FBI is corrupt at the top, and this "we can't provide information" excuse is used way too often.
Agree, which is why the FBI and DOJ must provide a reason for why they are withholding this information or preventing these people from being interviewed by Congress. If they are the subject of an investigation, then it will have to be disclosed in some fashion to Congress, either publicly or behind the scenes. The problem is that Congress leaks like a sieve.
Is this the same swamp dweller who swore to a Congressional Committee that the FBI does not give or comment on stories or contact news agencies, who then it was revealed had passed his notes from a Meeting with the President to a friend to feed to a Prestitute? I'd trust Bill Clinton in a whore house with a wallet full of money before I'd trust a thing James Comey ever said, wrote or testified to.
I have not checked Open Secrets to see if Horowitz donated to the Dems. I doubt Obama had much to do with the selection process.
Given the amount of high level corruption at the FBI, I doubt Obama didn't have much to do with selection process.
“Mueller must have know Strzok was anti-Trump - Mueller only hired on people who were anti-Trump - so that fact must have come as no surprise. But I do think the IG investigation uncovered something - something big enough to bust the top FBI counter-intelligence officer down to HR. What that might be remains a mystery for now, but it was certainly something more significant than anti-Trump texts with his mistress.”
I agree with your first point, Mueller had to have known Strzok was anti-Trump before he joined the Mueller group.
There is no evidence whatsoever that Strzok was “busted down.” There is no official report of any disciplinary action against Strzok. When it was announced it was said it was a transfer and no reason was given.
My thought, and this is only speculation, is that by July there was no more investigation to be done by Mueller. The Flynn interview had already been completed. The Manafort accusations were simply based on activities from several years ago when Manafort was working with Podesta and probably Clinton.
However, the DOJ and Congress were starting to investigate the FBI and asking for records related to the Clinton investigation, Fusion GPS and the infamous phony dossier. Strzok was probable needed in FBI HR department to hide, destroy and falsify documents and personal files and impede the investigations.
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