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Source: Strzok Hadn’t Seen Evidence Of Collusion After 10 Months On Russia Probe
Daily Caller ^ | 1/26/2018 | Chuck Ross

Posted on 01/26/2018 10:37:00 AM PST by mojito

After 10 months of leading the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation, counterintelligence official Peter Strzok had not seen compelling evidence that President Trump or high-level campaign officials colluded with the Russian government, according to a person familiar with his thinking.

That account comports with a May 19, 2017 text exchange between Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page that was released earlier this week.

“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,” Strzok wrote to Page, his mistress.

Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, disclosed the “jaw-dropping” text earlier this week. He said that the message suggested that the FBI investigators had seen no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government.

It was unclear exactly what Strzok meant by the message, but the source close to Strzok affirmed that interpretation of the exchange to The Daily Caller.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; Russia
KEYWORDS: 201609; 20160910; collusiondelusion; coup; coupplots; fbi; inflammatory; jamesbaker; jimbaker; overthrow; plot; russia; sedition; strzok; strzoktexts; treason; trishaanderson; trump; trumprussia
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To: PGR88

A 302 is what the FBI writes when they interview some perp or witness.

They don’t audio record.

Typically there are two FBI scumbags, one asks questions and the other uses his/her pen to lie about what was heard, what transpired in the interview.


61 posted on 01/26/2018 11:45:15 AM PST by gaijin
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To: Terry Mross
Maybe that’s why Mueller fired him.

The thought had crossed my mind. What if Strzok wasn't fired for his partisan texting with his paramour, but because he had ceased to be a true believer?

62 posted on 01/26/2018 11:48:40 AM PST by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: gaijin

Another question - not mentioned in article

I assume they were talking about “302s” from people like Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills, etc..?


63 posted on 01/26/2018 11:49:29 AM PST by PGR88
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To: mojito

https://www.scribd.com/document/367204037/OIG-Letter-to-Congress-Explaining-Strzok-and-Page-Text-Messaging-Origin#fullscreen&from_embed

This is the letter from OIG Horowitz to Grassley and Johnson explaining how Strzok and Page were found out. Note in the body of the text, they will refer to SC any criminal matter they find upon completion of their review.


64 posted on 01/26/2018 11:56:31 AM PST by EVO X
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To: Presbyterian Reporter
Who are Jim, Trisha, Dave, and Mike in the Strzok text?

I don't know for sure, but it's likely that "Jim" is James Baker, at the time FBI General Counsel and Page's boss. The others may be lawyers at the FBI.

In December, Baker was "reassigned" at the FBI. It's widely suspected that he leaked the dossier to Mother Jones in October 2016.

65 posted on 01/26/2018 12:03:21 PM PST by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: mojito

Trisha Anderson, Charles Newman - Weddings - The New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/.../trisha-anderson-charles-newman-weddings.html

Oct 8, 2011 - The bride, a former clerk for a Supreme Court justice, is a senior counsel to the United States deputy attorney general, in Washington; the bridegroom is a deputy legal adviser to the National Security Council, at the White House.

The bride, 35, who will keep her name, is a senior counsel to James M. Cole, the deputy attorney general, in Washington. Until July she was a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan. She graduated from Yale and received a law degree from Harvard.

The bridegroom, 33, is a deputy legal adviser to the National Security Council, at the White House. He graduated from Duke and received a law degree from the University of Virginia.

Mike might be Horowitz.


66 posted on 01/26/2018 12:06:37 PM PST by txhurl (Banana Republicans, as far as the eye can see)
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To: txhurl
Mike might be Horowitz.

Horowitz is at the DOJ, and these texts seem to deal with interoffice gossip at the FBI, so I doubt that "Mike" is IG Horowitz.

67 posted on 01/26/2018 12:12:26 PM PST by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: txhurl
Hmmm...on second thought you might be right.
68 posted on 01/26/2018 12:13:55 PM PST by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: PGR88
lead Page from her paddock

Well, maybe she has other, uh, . . . talents.

69 posted on 01/26/2018 12:14:38 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: mojito

The longer Sessions waits to appoint a special counsel to investigate the DOJ/FBI/IC wrongdoing, the more time the wrongdoers have to legally dispose of incriminating evidence.

A special counsel would have already begun flipping Strzok and Page.

What is Sessions’ problem? I guess he was not the person we thought he was.


70 posted on 01/26/2018 4:27:37 PM PST by Meet the New Boss
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To: mojito

imho i do think it would be well to hold off criticism before any official findings of criminality, for reasons such as this.


71 posted on 01/26/2018 5:02:14 PM PST by SteveH
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To: FreeReign

HOW does a Government employee, Strzok, AFFORD a Suoer Expensive Clinton Lawyer like David Boies???? WHO US PAYING THE BILLS??


72 posted on 01/27/2018 2:22:34 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: colorado tanker
Well, maybe she has other, uh, . . . talents.

No telling what she can do when Peter puts peanut butter under her lip like Hollywood used to do with Mr. Ed.

Smack smack smak

Or on special occasions, gets her a candy apple:

Love me some apple

73 posted on 01/27/2018 3:03:45 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: mojito

“according to a person familiar with his thinking”

Well, well, well.

Does Peter want to cut a deal? Perhaps.


74 posted on 01/27/2018 6:12:13 AM PST by Jim Noble (Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like?)
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To: Alberta's Child

Hillary was just a tool for the people behind Obama-Jarrett, and she couldn’t even win a rigged election.

She’s been tossed away. She had neither the wit nor the means to run an operation of this size.


75 posted on 01/27/2018 6:16:19 AM PST by Jim Noble (Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like?)
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To: Ann Archy

As I have said many times before, Strzok, Page, Comey, and Mueller are career bureaucrats who would never, ever make a decision unless forced to and whose prime directive, as always, is CYA.

It is IMPOSSIBLE that individuals of this type would take it upon themselves to do the things they have done.

The coup will not be over until the person or persons who ordererd them to do these things are identified and either brought to justice (if possible) or neutralized (if not possible).


76 posted on 01/27/2018 6:22:00 AM PST by Jim Noble (Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like?)
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To: Jim Noble

Obama is just a tool for Jarrett and Iran/muslim infiltrators.

Obama is as bad or worse- if possible- then Hillary


77 posted on 01/27/2018 6:29:43 AM PST by Nailbiter
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To: Jim Noble
Does Peter want to cut a deal?

Been thinking about this very thing, and my guess is that Peter and Lisa have agreed to the release of these texts as proof of their cooperation with the IG investigation. Another clue is that these two both still have jobs, rather than being under arrest. And if nothing else, these texts are proof of how much they liked to talk.

78 posted on 01/27/2018 9:23:14 AM PST by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: txhurl; Presbyterian Reporter
“Trish” is likely Trisha Beth Anderson, Office of Legal Counsel for the FBI. [Anderson was hired for the DOJ, by AG Eric Holder, from Eric Holder’s law firm.]

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/01/27/obstruction-of-justice-special-agent-strzok-text-message-highlights-fbi-investigative-intent/

@TheLastRefuge2 David Bowdich & Michael Steinbach. Bowdich was in Rybicki’s email chain when drafting Comey’s speech & Steinbach supervised the FBI’s investigation of Hillary Clinton’s handling of her emails.

https://twitter.com/deqwik2/status/957198927467556864

79 posted on 01/27/2018 10:03:30 AM PST by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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