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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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To: mikelets456

The FBI has been in Hellary’s back pocket since before she requested the FBI files on all her enemies some 25 years ago.


21 posted on 02/01/2018 12:05:20 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Wolfie

Some people who normally just swallow the lib/CNN pap whole may be noticing that it’s a new and frantic “discovery” that overturns the narrative every day, and sometimes several times a day.

Let’s see... yesterday some blogger named Seth Anderson said that there was a lawyer inside the WH who resigned last year because of some alleged impropriety.

Strozk was bad, now he’s good.

Nunes — is he compromised by the Russians?

The memo was changed, even if the changes were at the behest of the Democrats.

Et cetera.

Now, I’m usually pessimistic about people who have made their liberal political choice, but I think some of them are starting to notice.


22 posted on 02/01/2018 12:06:20 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: mikelets456
according to a source familiar with Strzok's thinking.

Priceless!

23 posted on 02/01/2018 12:11:16 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: mikelets456

If Peter Strzok was asked to be involved in such a letter then that is what he would have done. Where is the proof that he wanted to write such a letter. Remember that Comey needed to cover his butt. The entire letter to congress thing was just a shill. Comey already knew what the end result was going to be.


24 posted on 02/01/2018 12:19:37 PM PST by Revel
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“Extremely careless..”

The earliest text messages exchanged with Lisa lover, we see Strozk telling her that he had made a mistake and has to go back and fix it.

He realized the night before in a moment of lucidity, that his wording in the draft for Comey, actually matched the legal standard for prosecution, so he changed that wording it to “extremely careless”.


25 posted on 02/01/2018 12:21:26 PM PST by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public education & academia= the farm team for mNoore Marxists coming, infinitum.)
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To: mikelets456

Emails obtained by CNN.

Who provided them? How do they know they are even legit or the context? How does the draft compare with what Comey released? This leak needs to be investigated and prosecuted. CNN admits engaging in criminal behavior.


26 posted on 02/01/2018 12:29:47 PM PST by Chewbarkah
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