“The news that senior FBI agent Peter Strzok exchanged anti-Trump, pro-Hillary text messages with another FBI official matters—though we’ve yet to see the content.”
Excerpted from IBD. Role of Peter Strzok in changing the memo accusing Clinton of being grossly negligent to extremely careless! (link to full article is below.)
Then, in early November, we learned that an early draft of that memo had accused Clinton of being “grossly negligent” in handling classified material because she used an unsecured private email server while Secretary of State.
At some point during the editing process of that memo, “grossly negligent” became “extremely careless,” which is how Comey put it in the final version.
The change was monumental. The criminal statute regarding mishandling classified material specifically cites “gross negligence” as a violation of the law, even if there is no intent involved. Had that language remained, Comey’s claim that “no reasonable prosecutor” would take the Clinton email case would have been laughable.
So changing the language was obviously meant to clear the path for letting Clinton off the hook, whatever the facts might be.
This week, the other shoe in the memo story dropped, when it was reported that Peter Strzok had made that particular edit.
Strzok, for those who don’t know, had been kicked off the Trump/Russia investigation this summer — a fact we also only learned about in the past few days — after it turned out that he’d been sending anti-Trump, pro-Hillary texts to an FBI colleague.
Excellent link, thanks! Strzok was right in the middle of all the jobs that were being fixed, and appears biased to boot. Question is, was he also following orders, from others such as Comey and McCabe.
This is why we need a new special counsel to investigate the DoJ, as it clearly can’t be trusted to investigate itself, and the IG inspector is still a DoJ employee under that chain of command (and an Obama appointee as well according to some here). But Sessions is refusing to appoint one, despite repeated requests from his oversight committees in Congress. But either that is done, or these crimes will never be fully uncovered, much less prosecuted, and the swamp will live on.