Posted on 01/23/2018 6:43:01 AM PST by mandaladon
All 50,000 of them? That’s how many texts the FBI apparently “lost” in their retention system during the period of time in which agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page carried on an extramarital affair — and might have injected partisan bias into the probe of Russian interference in the election. The bureau previously turned over 375 messages to congressional investigators, but when the panels asked for a broader range of messages, the FBI discovered that the messages had been deleted.
Jeff Sessions pledged to “leave no stone unturned” in getting those texts back, while Donald Trump continued to slam the FBI for its performance issues:
The Justice Department’s inspector general is investigating why the FBI did not retain text messages for five months, including those exchanged by two senior officials involved in the probes of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said late Monday that he has spoken to Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz about the missing text messages and that “a review is already underway to ascertain what occurred” and determine whether the missing text messages can be recovered.
“We will leave no stone unturned to confirm with certainty why these text messages are not now available to be produced and will use every technology available to determine whether the missing messages are recoverable from another source,” Sessions said in a statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
QUESTION No. 1
Were the effects of the mysterious FBI technical malfunctions system-wide or selective?
Did the malfunctions cause the FBI to lose text messages for the 6 month period for everyone or just for a select few like Peter Strzok and Lisa Page?
QUESTION No. 2
If the effects were not system-wide and messages were also lost for some others but not everyone, are those other people the members of the Strzok/Page “Secret Society”?
QUESTION No. 3
Do the anti-Trump forces at the top of the DOJ and FBI actually expect any intelligent person to believe their B.S. story of a technical malfunction?
Scary how all this would have never been known if Hillary had won...
FBI: Feral Bureau of Insurrectionists.
Confused. These messages have been missing for months. Why is Sessions worried about it now? If he didn’t know about it until this weekend, who hid it from him?
Where was their supervisor?
Of course not. They're laughing and thumbing their noses at the rubes who imagine they can be held seriously accountable.
They're like illegals in those pictures where they're laughing and making obscene gestures.
Yep. Right after his nap.
I just heard on Fox News that the missing texts have been known about for some time. So why is Jeff, only just now, starting his stone turning?
Hey Sessions.
Go piss up a rope, I don’t believe you.
Nothing going to happen to anyone. This is all just BS. The American people will continue to get lied to and screwed over as always. The Clintons should already be on death row for the crimes they have committed. Hell ,they are still saying she is gonna be President. WTF!
If Hillary had of won she would have completed the transformation of the CIA, FBI, NSA, State Department, Federal Marshals and Justice Department into a police state. She is that evil!
This sounds just like more Washington weasel words in a rather lame attempt to show he's something more than a weak, titular, figurehead providing cover for the swamp.
“So why is Jeff, only just now, starting his stone turning?”
Why indeed. I think he’s placating Trump. At what point do all the Session apologists realize how bad he really is?
Yeah yeah yeah...but will you actually fire anyone, charge anyone or do anything that even remotely resembles what would happen to us mere peasant had we acted as such.
Rip should just text them all on their burner phones...
Poor choice of words by Sessions. There used to be a play on the expression “leave no stone unturned”, to the effect of “leave no turn unstoned”, implying continued marijuana intoxication.
Fire everyone in both agencies, personnel first (personnel: human resources for those of you arriving during the contemporary evil era). 100% flush and fill. It’s the only way to be sure.
Yeah, no stone left unturned...until nap time.
I really, really hope and pray that I’m missing the big picture here, that instead of how it has looked in the past year, Sessions and Trump purposely mapped out a strategy of making it seem like the AG was just a doddering old fool who was afraid to use the power of his office to root out corruption and protect the nation...until they were ready to spring a massive trap.
Sessions is a goat blowing joke. All his defenders here don’t seem to realize those against him - we want to be wrong, we want there to be some deep cover investigation he is in charge of leading. Sadly this seems not to be the case. He is just a good old boy from Alabama who is more interested in stability of the uni-party than justice for all. Booo Jeff Sessions, you goat blower.
Was this “extreme carelessness”, or “gross negligence”?
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