Posted on 12/13/2017 11:52:34 PM PST by Helicondelta
Wednesday’s revelations—they’re coming almost daily—include the Justice Department’s release of 2016 text messages to and from Peter Strzok, the FBI counterintelligence agent whom Mr. Mueller demoted this summer. The texts, which he exchanged with senior FBI lawyer Lisa Page, contain expletive-laced tirades against Mr. Trump. Such Trump hatred is no surprise and not by itself disqualifying. More troubling are texts that suggest that some FBI officials may have gone beyond antipathy to anti-Trump plotting.
“I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office—that there’s no way [Trump] gets elected—but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk,” Mr. Strzok wrote Ms. Page in an Aug. 15, 2016 text. He added: “It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.”
What “policy” would that be? The “Andy” in question is Andrew McCabe, the deputy FBI director. FBI officials are allowed to have political opinions, but what kind of action were they discussing that would amount to anti-Trump “insurance”?
In another exchange that month, Ms. Page forwarded a Trump-related article and wrote: “Maybe you’re meant to stay where you are because you’re meant to protect the country from that menace.” He thanked her and assured: “Of course I’ll try and approach it that way.” Mr. Strzok, recall, is the man who changed the words “grossly negligent” to “extremely careless” in James Comey’s July 2016 public exoneration of Hillary Clinton’s emails.
The McCabe meeting came on the heels of the FBI’s launch of its counterintelligence probe into Trump-Russia ties. July is also when former British spook Christopher Steele briefed the FBI on his Clinton-financed dossier of salacious allegations against Mr. Trump.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
In the case of Strzok, his reassignment to HR is a fairly standard practice in the federal government for employees with personnel problems that are awaiting resolution. HR is a holding tank. IMO Strzok may already be under criminal investigation.
I wish one of the Congressmen had asked what the title of Strzok’s position was in HR. We could then have a good laugh about his supposed non-demotion.
Rumor has it that he was reassigned to examine the files of agents loyal to their oaths.
If Jeff Sessions were still alive, this would never have happened.
I agree the dossier and the resulting FISA warrant was the insurance plan. I would also include the last minute edict by Obama to the intel community to investigate Russian involvement in our election process. Remember he ordered that he wanted the report before he left office. The fix was in. Clapper, Brennan, and Comey were part and parcel of the plan to get Trump.
REPRESENTATIVE JIM JORDAN (R-OHIO in hearings, asking FBI Director Wray about Strzok):
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“Here’s what I think, Director Wray. I think Peter Strzok, Head of Counterintelligence at the FBI, Peter Strozk, the guy who ran the Clinton investigation, did all the interviews, Peter Strzok, the guy the guy who was running the Russian investigation at the FBI, Peter Strzok, Mr. Super Agent at the FBI,I think he’s the guy who took the application to the FISA court.
And if that happened, I mean, I think...I think if this happened, if you had the FBI working with a campaign, the Democrat’s campaign, taking opposition research, dressing it all up and turning it into an intelligence document and taking it to the FISA court so they can spy on the other campaign...if that happened, that is as wrong as it gets.
And you know what?
Maybe I’m wrong. You could clear it all up. You could clear it all up for all of us here, all the Congress who wants to know...and frankly, all of America who wants to know...you could clear it all up by releasing...we sent you an letter two days ago, just release the application, tell us what was in it. Tell us if I’m wrong.
But I don’t think I am. I think that’s exactly what happened, and if it did, that is just as wrong as it can be, and people who did that need to be held accountable.”
Based on my experience of 36 years of working for the federal government, Strzok was assigned to HR to park him there awaiting disposition of his case. He has no real job there.
I was kidding..sort of.
The cancer is so overwhelming within the DOJ/FBI that the entire organ must be removed and replaced.
I have been seeing concerns raised here and elsewhere that the assignment of Strzok was a sinister attempt to remove incriminating evidence and scrub files. To me, it is a clear indication that Strzok is under investigation and cannot be reassigned back to a substantive CI job.
I report you decide lol. Seriously, I went back to the CNN article in an attempt to make sure that I had the report from CNN correct before I left it in my response. But I did qualify it with my source in any case. (I still find 10000 text messages a staggering number of messages, by any adult non millennial hipster standard! Wtf are these DC deep state types smoking anyways?! I wanna order a few nickel bags of it!! )
...and I would still appreciate a horses mouth clarification if there is any such to be found anywhere. Come on, 10000 messages!! The two are burning up their cell phones with messages every day at that rate!! I have to believe that most of it is sexting because any thing else (even political griping) would simply become stale after the first few dozen such messages. Am I right , and if not , what am I missing??
Are they talking politics, or is this an example of some kind of kinky sexting code? With generous amounts of imagination applied ,it could potentially turn someone on lol...
SCENE: a darkened luxury hotel bedroom, drapes pulled, horns honking in distance, clothing and underwear scattered across the floor, bed just out of camera fram
[heavy breathing]
STRZOK: just went to a southern virginia walmart. [pause] i could SMELL the Trump support...
[heavy breathing]
PAGE: Yep. Out to lunch with (name obscured by loud ambulance siren in traffic outside window). We both hate everyone and everything.
[heavy breathing]
PAGE: just riffing on the hot mess that is our country. [pause] OHHHH YESSSS!
[heavy breathing; bedsheets rustling]
STRZOK: Yeah... it’s scary real down here...
[more heavy breathing, interspersed with gentle moaning sounds]
I don’t subscribe to the WSJ and haven’t read it since they strengthened their paywall over a year ago. So, dunno.
>>”…curious about your opinion of atheists”
Depends on the atheist and what concept or definition of God they don’t believe in.
I have yet to find a real one: not believing in, or acting as though they believed in, any and all concepts of God; rejecting any reality of transcendence.
If I had to opine in general, I’d say they are unlearned in philosophy - specifically epistemology - and theology. But that can also apply to theist.
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