Posted on 01/23/2018 8:27:41 AM PST by RoosterRedux
The FBI’s top agent on the Trump-Russia investigation sent a text message last year that one top Republican senator says suggests he saw no evidence of Trump campaign collusion.
The text message, which was sent by Peter Strzok, is “jaw-dropping,” Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said in a radio interview on Tuesday.
In an interview with WISN-Milwaukee radio host Jay Weber, Johnson read aloud a May 19, 2017 text that Strzok sent to Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer and his mistress.
Strzok wrote: “You and I both know the odds are nothing. If I thought it was likely, I’d be there no question. I hesitate in part because of my gut sense and concern that there’s no big there there.”
Johnson said that the text referred to the Mueller investigation, which had kicked off two days earlier. Strzok joined that team, but was removed in July after the Justice Department’s inspector general discovered his anti-Trump text exchanges with Page.
As the FBI’s deputy counterintelligence chief, Strzok was picked in July 2016 to oversee the investigation into possible Trump campaign collusion with the Russian government. Prior to that, he was a top investigator on the Clinton email inquiry.
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Just what IS his f’n job?
Lead at the Kabuki Theatre?
...he saw no evidence of Trump campaign collusion... a May 19, 2017 text that Strzok sent to Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer and his mistress...“You and I both know the odds are nothing. If I thought it was likely, I’d be there no question. I hesitate in part because of my gut sense and concern that there’s no big there there.”
I think what Gowdy is trying to convey is that Congress has regulatory oversight but does not have the investigative infrastructure to conduct criminal investigations. This is by design. By Constitutional design, Congress has legislative infrastructure to draft legislation, and it does that well. Federal investigative infrastructure, by Constitutional design, is vested in the Executive branch, not the Congressional branch. Issuing targeted subpoenas to multinational corporations tends to be a long and complex process, normally done as part of criminal or civil court procedure at trial, not as part of a Congressional hearing. It can sometimes take years of plowing through motions by scores of lawyers and paralegals on both sides of the adversarial court procedure. Congress is not rigged for that. In Congress, there is traditionally a 2 year cycle before a prospective changing of the guard. Most heavy legal lifting has to fit within that 2 year cycle. The FBI is traditionally vested with leading the charge in such investigations, but in this case, the entity being investigated is the FBI itself. So there needs to be a special prosecutor appointed with powers to investigate the FBI and that special prosecutor needs authority from the Executive branch, not the Congressional branch. This is all a big mouthful to say and it does not fit into a sound bite. However, I get the impression that it is probably well understood by members of Congress as well as journalists and most everyone else in DC. Folks in flyover country are used to demanding and getting quick results outside of DC in their own lives. This is how DC works (by Constitutional design). (This is just my conjecture from flyover country: I could very well be missing something.)
In some ways it appears that Strzok is being set up to take the big fall for his “betters”.
I wonder if the missing emails implicate his “betters” deeply and that’s why they were “lost”. I think they want Strzok to take the hit for them all. It’s just a couple of rogue FBI/DOJ types running their own game...
It was obvious that there was no there there, because otherwise Obama would have had the evidence leaked before the election.
A the Dems are going nowhere What are they running on ?
B trump has tremendous support
Those who see the sgdnda moving forward will again crawl over broken glass in an off year to get us more good guys
The entire thread (original statement and all comments) is interesting - although speculative and not conclusion.
. True, the press release was from a GROPelite on the committee. But notice how it seems to absolve the FBI investigators of being prejudiced or anti-Trump? It indicates that the he was a “reluctant participant” in Mueller’s investigation, and thus can be used to imply he was NOT “anti-Trump” and was “therefore impartial” and “professional” ...
In a world where pro-Trump messages on Facebook and Twitter from living people can be immediately blamed in public and in numerous stories in the “press” on “Russian bots” - without a single protest by the “press” about such a blatant and obvious lie from the democrat politicians, do you doubt that this text will used that way?
Why did Mueller take this job, when really no one believed in Russian collusion, not even Hillary. This is the most unpatriotic act that Mueller has ever done, perpetuate a false accusation against an innocent man, who happened to be the elected President of the United States, and in doing so took part in a coup d’etat against that President, conspiring with the Democrat Party.
Mueller has diminished our law, our Constitution and our nation; he has a duty to step down. The whole episode is an ugly political trick, and a lie to gain political power. How he does not see that means he is part of it or deliberately blind.
The Constitutional Crisis is already occurring, that is the Mueller investigation. They are seeking to impeach the President on false charges. Trump must act with everything he has, not only for his Presidency, but for the nation so that these hideous subversive actions are forever punished and never again attempted.
How many times have they raised our expectations only to produce nothing? Why are Stzrok and others still employed by FBI and DOJ? Why do Republican congress critters breathlessly run to the nearest mic every other minute (it seems) to yak about the latest horror they have uncovered, but we in the public never get to see it? Why is it that Dems rarely are held accountable for their obvious corruption? When is enough, enough?
If you'll notice - EVERY Republican presidential administration has staff that have become "convicted felons" during the course of the administration: Richard Nixon's crew, Oliver North and Iran-Contra, Scooter Libby, and now Manafort & others.
CLEAR criminality during the Clinton and 0bama administrations?
ZERO "convicted felons", let alone prosecutions.
The Left uses the Right's respect for the Rule of Law against them. Heck, during Zero's reign, they went after Dinesh D'Souza and James O'Keefe. If you mention their names in the Twitter wars, a swarm of Lefty trolls show up and start shouting "FELONS!!! FELONS!!!""
And now, they're trying the same Mitt on the Trump administration...
I wouldn’t be surprised if Deep Stroke didn’t suspect Mulehead was rounding all these people up to keep them from actually doing anything.
And this doesn't mention the nearly 1/3 of the country who are perennial fence sitters who aren't sure who they'd vote for and many of whom are influenced by the likes of hollywood, national alphabet news and their local media.
A 51 seat (R) majority is even more razor thin thanks to the debacle in AL (who here really thought loosing that seat was going to happen?) and a majority in the House, by 45 seats, isn't a sure thing (don't forget the 'reliable' (R) seat lost in Wisconsin about a week ago).
The (R)'s and the conservatives best not take Trumps win, or the ability of the insane America haters to gain power, for granted.
The Andrew Klavan Show Ep. 449
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPYqseIIo3M
I remember years ago as a lurker reading your comments on Islam.
Always eye-opening and well-taken.
I seldom agreed with you, but you were difficult to argue with (i.e. you made a lot of sense).
Just a suggestion, but you are needed on FR daily.
Not that I always agree with you, but your points are well-argued.
You used to get into fights all day long...and acquitted yourself quite well in those exchanges if memory serves (it rarely does nowadays).
Get back in here, Dude.
You are missed.
========== Page ================================ "Why? I don't understand what they need me for! Not when they have someone like Aaron. Or [blank] or [blank]" "And [blank] paid some really outrageous complements to me. I just don't get what she even means." ========= Strzok =============================== "Ok I obviously want to hear what [blank] said ========= Page ================================= "I won't be able to repeat. Something about being the second smartest lawyer she has ever worked with besides comey. It can't be true. ================================================
What I find very interesting about this exchange is not just that Strzok is trying to convince Page, but apparently others are as well, using what even Page recognized as overblown assessments of Page.
One might wonder what the true attraction of having Page on the team is. Here's my guess. Those trying to recruit Page KNOW that she is virulently anti-Trump and would not only go along with the witch-hunt but would actively advance the cause.
Also interesting would be to know how people beside Strzok know about Page's bias. Is it possible that Mueller's team knew about these text messages even prior to being informed by the Inspector General. Or is Page being recruited by others in the "secret society"?
Although the name of the person who was attempting to recruit Page is redacted, Congress no doubt has the name.
I got tired of...debating people who only see the world (GWOT) in black and white terms.
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