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Controversial FBI agent co-wrote initial draft of explosive Comey letter reopening Clinton
CNN ^ | 2/1/2018 | CNN

Posted on 02/01/2018 11:51:20 AM PST by mikelets456

Washington (CNN)Emails obtained by CNN show the FBI agent at the center of a Capitol Hill storm played a key role in a controversial FBI decision that upended Hillary Clinton's campaign just days before the 2016 election: the letter to Congress by then-FBI Director James Comey announcing the bureau was investigating newly discovered Clinton emails.

The new revelation about FBI agent Peter Strzok comes as Republicans accuse him of being sympathetic to Clinton while seeking to undermine Donald Trump during the heat of the 2016 campaign season. Strzok, who co-wrote what appears to be the first draft that formed the basis of the letter Comey sent to Congress, also supported reopening the Clinton investigation once the emails were discovered on disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner's laptop, according to a source familiar with Strzok's thinking. The day after Strzok sent his draft to his colleagues, Comey released the letter to Congress, reigniting the email controversy in the final days of the campaign.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: comey; comeymemo; fisamemo; releasethememo; strzok; strzokrehab; trump
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1 posted on 02/01/2018 11:51:20 AM PST by mikelets456
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CNN actually reporting on Strozk. I guess they are trying to catch their followers up on the real news.


2 posted on 02/01/2018 11:55:02 AM PST by Parley Baer
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CO-wrote?

RE-wrote!

3 posted on 02/01/2018 11:55:07 AM PST by airborne (I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey playoffs season!)
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I heard this a couple of days ago, featured on CNN.

So now Strozk is a good guy, being rehabilitated.


4 posted on 02/01/2018 11:55:31 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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This had nothing to do with Hill losing. She sucks and blew off key parts of the country because she thought they were in the bag....and they weren’t cool places to visit.

Clinton New Network needs to STFU.


5 posted on 02/01/2018 11:55:49 AM PST by PSUGOP
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Well ... uhhhhhhh ... I guess ... ahhhhhhhh ... the FBI is ... ummmmmmmmm ... out to get the Clintons and ... uhhhhhh ... will do anything to help Trump ... because ... you know ...


6 posted on 02/01/2018 11:56:04 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (The revolution will not be televised (at least, not by CNN).)
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CNN trying to whitewash Strozk.


7 posted on 02/01/2018 11:56:09 AM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: Parley Baer

Swamp gas diversion.

Lisa and Peter got extra time on their hands after delivering the office mail so they fed the story to their pals.


8 posted on 02/01/2018 11:57:58 AM PST by VRWCarea51 (The Original 1998 Version)
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The Bitch set Comey up?


9 posted on 02/01/2018 11:58:10 AM PST by Paladin2
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So what? Is CNN trying to say this guy was NOT a Hillary flunkie because he actually did his job once by making a rough draft document?


10 posted on 02/01/2018 11:58:17 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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he tried to run out the clock and postpone it until after the election but his plan didn’t work

CNN is trying to say there is nothing to him being pro- clinton because he was the one the reopened it costing her the election


11 posted on 02/01/2018 11:58:18 AM PST by janetjanet998
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They re-opened it so no one else would, and so they could re-close it BEFORE THE ELECTION.

Normally an investigation takes a little longer than that.

If another agent got involved... then who knows what happens?

We ALREADY know Strzok edited the draft exonerating hilLIARy before their investigation was complete.

This is just spin before the memo comes out- kind of like “see? he was not biased toward clinton”

He opened it, so he could immediately close it, if anything.


12 posted on 02/01/2018 11:58:52 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Yep. That’s the new FBI talking point all over the Liberal media today.


13 posted on 02/01/2018 11:59:26 AM PST by Wolfie
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CNN?!!!

Well, it’s all fixin’ to hit the fan, so ...


14 posted on 02/01/2018 11:59:54 AM PST by Heart of Georgia (#DrainTheSwamp #HeFights)
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Well, it looks like its being countered by the release of Page/Strozk emails discussing circumvention of the Records Act, communicating in secret. “Everyone else does it” seems to be the drift of the message.


15 posted on 02/01/2018 12:00:50 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Parley Baer
Bullsh!t.

This story is an example of how you tell a huge lie by revealing a small truth.

The FBI sat on the emails for two weeks before Comey kept his promise of informing Congress of new developments. The only reason there was any public disclosure was because both the NY field office of the FBI and the NYPD Special Investigations Unit (which took possession of the Weiner/Abedin laptop in the first place) already knew about the emails, and that fact was leaking all over NYC.

Rudy Giuliani leaked the fact that additional emails were known to exist on FNC.

The the fear of imminent exposure is what motivated the FBI to go public; the Feebs had NO other choice.

16 posted on 02/01/2018 12:02:04 PM PST by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward 5th Avenue, to be born?)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

True, but the Liberal media doesn’t report that.


17 posted on 02/01/2018 12:02:40 PM PST by Wolfie
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This happened after McCabe sat on Weiner’s lap...top for a month.

Strzok was likely asked by Comey / McCabe to write this damage-control crap for them.

It was late October and they were all overconfident that the Beast would win anyway, but they had to do something to appear like they were doing their job. The plan was to sweep it all under the rug a few months into her Thighness’s reign.


18 posted on 02/01/2018 12:03:00 PM PST by rfp1234 (I have already previewed this composition.)
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Real story is he delayed the investigation for weeks, then rushed to dismiss the new emails when he couldn’t delay any longer.


19 posted on 02/01/2018 12:03:16 PM PST by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: Mr. K
100% correct. Also, they couldn't keep the lid on the laptop, because NYPD Special Investigations Unit saw it first, and was threatening to go public with what was on the laptop if the FBI didn't.

In the crucial 72 hour news-cycle before the election Comey "cleared" Clinton, in a second whitewash.

20 posted on 02/01/2018 12:04:11 PM PST by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward 5th Avenue, to be born?)
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