I say hold on a sec. I have engaged in a workplace romance, even bedded and wedded one. Once the sexual harassment phase had advanced to the boning phase, we became secretive, and we weren't even married to other people. A workplace affair is usually not talked about openly in a law enforcement environment, even more so when one or both of the parties are married.
I put it to you that they took great care not to show attention to each other at work, like me and my ex did. And they, being FBI, knew better than to act like dipshits on their company phones or at work. Maybe they kept personal phones for that, or maybe they kept it in their pantaloons at work. Most likely both.
So I do not disregard the affair's existence. Somebody got the info from somewhere. Unless it was totally made up out of nothing for the purposes some have stated.
I don't even know why it's so important to know if they were having an affair other than to show the closeness of their relationship for some reason or to embarrass them.
That's my rant on the subject. Other rants may differ.
A calculated cover story for communication purely as part of a conspiracy vs. reams of exchanges incidental to close friends idle chit chat.
I don't think the diffefnce matters either. CTH has a lengthy piece on it a month or so ago. Yawn.
The Strozk - Page affair story originated with Wray, I believe it was, when he went bawling his eyes out to Paul Ryan, in an effort to avoid the Committee demands for all those incriminating inside FBI docs and texts.
FOX programming implied Wray played that boo hoo sympathy card to Ryan, using the “affair thing” between the two agents, as one of his arguments.
Turns out, as you duly noted, that no texts (yet) have surfaced to bear that line out. So far.
I suspect the pair told their spouses the same story, that this line was used as a ruse to avoid the doc dump, since the couples haven’t seemed to miss a beat at home, still stoking happy hearths with spouse.
As ive read it, most/all of their lovey dovey texts were redacted as “personal”. I think thats crap because they’re public officials on publuc equipment and the relationship details carry great weight in their motivations and conspiratorial aspirations.