Posted on 09/05/2020 9:20:32 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Peter Strzok spent his FBI career hunting Russian and Chinese spies, but after news broke of derogatory text messages he had sent about President Donald Trump, he came to feel like he was the one being hunted.
There were menacing phone calls and messages from strangers, and anxious peeks out window shades before his family would leave the house. FBI security experts advised him of best practices — walk around your car before entering, watch for unfamiliar vehicles in your neighborhood — more commonly associated with mob targets looking to elude detection.
“Being subjected to outrageous attacks up to and including by the president himself, which are full of lies and mischaracterizations and just crude and cruel, is horrible,” Strzok told The Associated Press in an interview. “There’s no way around it.”
A new book by Strzok traces his arc from veteran counterintelligence agent to the man who came to embody Trump’s public scorn of FBI and his characterization of its Russia investigation as a “witch hunt.” The texts cost Strzok his job and drew vitriol from Trump. But even among Trump critics, Strzok isn’t a hero. His anti-Trump texts on a government phone to an FBI lawyer gave Trump and his supporters a major opening to undercut the bureau’s credibility right as it was conducting one of the most consequential investigations in its history.
Trump’s attacks have continued even as two inspector general reports found no evidence Strzok’s work in the investigations were tainted by political bias and multiple probes have affirmed the Russia probe’s validity. …
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If he was hunting Chinese spies, he sure seems to have missed quite a few. It’s probably going to take years to get the rest who infiltrated during the Bush and Obama years.
Did Peter Strzok discover that there is a price to pay when you conspire to overthrow the duly-elected President of the United States? That’s a shame.
That’s a horrible thing to say about weasels
This, and him, are anything but funny. This is a person who drew a salary from American taxpayers, and made it clear that he despises and looks down on at least half of them. This is a person who conspired to eradicate the votes of 63 million Americans. This is a person who thought he, and what he wanted, were more important than the Constitution or the sanctity of our electoral process. In comparison, he makes scum seem like gold.
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