Posted on 01/25/2018 11:06:34 AM PST by mojito
January 25, 2018
The Honorable Ron Johnson Chairman, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
The Honorable Charles E. Grassley Chairman, Committee on the Judiciary
Dear Chairmen Johnson and Grassley:
Thank you for your letter dated January 23, 2018, in which you requested information regarding the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) preservation of text messages for FBI employees Lisa Page and Peter Strzok. You requested a response by January 29, 2018.
I understand that in its letter to you dated January 19, 2018, the Department of Justice (Department) reported that the FBI's technical system for retaining text messages sent from or to FBI-issued mobile devices failed to capture text messages between Ms. Page and Mr. Strzok during the period from December 14, 2016, to May 17, 2017. The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) had similarly been advised by the FBI that this failure prevented the FBI from producing to the OIG text messages between Ms. Page and Mr. Strzok during the period from December 14, 2016, to May 17, 2017.
The OIG has been investigating this matter and, this week, succeeded in using forensic tools to recover text messages from FBI devices, including text messages between Mr. Strzok and Ms. Page that were sent or received between December 14, 2016, and May 17, 2017. Our effort to recover any additional text messages is ongoing. We will provide copies of the text messages that we recover from these devices to the Department so that the Department's leadership can take any management action it deems appropriate. Proceeding in this manner is consistent with the OIG's process for handling Department information. As I have noted with respect to other Department information produced to the OIG by the Department as part of our review, I would have no objection to the Department providing its own records to your Committees in response to a Congressional oversight request should Department leadership deem it appropriate to do so, and consistent with applicable law and Department policy.
I hope this information is helpful to the Committees and that it serves to clarify my letter to you dated December 13, 2017. Consistent with the OIG's practice, I look forward to providing the Department, Congress, and the public with a report detailing our findings, which will be responsive to additional questions in your letter, as soon as our work has been completed. We also would be pleased to discuss with your Committees whether the OIG has the necessary authorities, resources, and capabilities to obtain this type of evidentiary information.
Sincerely,
Michael E. Horowitz Inspector General
Gov. Mike Huckabee
@GovMikeHuckabee
Missing FBI text messages found. Pharmacies near FBI and DOJ in DC reporting dramatic spike in sales of Imodium AD and Depends.
10:02 AM - 25 Jan 2018
https://twitter.com/GovMikeHuckabee/status/956588197223567360
Why are these two traitors still on taxpayer’s payroll?......................
Huck is a hoot !
This has been a fear of mine, that Horowitz is a swamp creature. Horowitz requested these texts long ago and apparently was stonewalled with the FBI’s BS lost story. Is this letter telling me Horowitz never thought to turn over a few rocks to find them until the senators called him on it? Am I misreading this?
What evidence? We don't have any evidence!
Then the federales look under the beds, and voila!, there is the evidence.
Perps,"How did that get there?!"
The IG just magically found the missing texts this week after the firestorm in Congress. Color me suspicious on the timing.
That didn’t take long
Valium and vodka sales a sellout.........empty shelves reported.
“Why are these two traitors still on taxpayer’s payroll?......................”
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Plus, as employees, they can always be required to take a polygraph to maintain their clearance.
“We will provide copies of the text messages that we recover from these devices to the Department so that the Department’s leadership can take any management action it deems appropriate.”
what does this sentence mean?
It does NOT say that ALL text messages have been recovered. “Our efforts...are ongoing...”
HAHAHAHAHA!!!
There be very nervous RATs in the DOJ these days I expect.
I hope they are all destroyed & politically exterminated. Jailed where applicable.
The IG works for the DOJ. The IG will give the info to the DOJ for action
The IG is following the chain of command
The IG does appear to be slow walking his over year long investigation. No sense of urgency at all. We will be running up against the midterms soon and that will shut everything down.
Horowitz recovered “text messages between Mr. Strzok and Ms. Page”. He didn’t use the word “all”.
I guess because of the presumption of innocence absent any adjudication to the contrary. Like it's in our Constitution! Strozk is in HR, don't know where his bitch is, but you can bet with all the $hit coming down on the DOJ/FBI, she's probably washing dishes in the commisary.
Quite a few things packed into these two sentences... 1. Contrary to the OIG 'having the messages already from an earlier point in time', they had to use forensic tools to get them. 2. The statement says that 'text messages were recovered'... it doesn't say how many they have, whether they think they the majority of them or what. Well, they can't have all of them because the message says that this 'effort is ongoing'.
So who drafted and authorized the laughable response to Congress initially that the text messages were lost due to a technical glitch?
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