Posted on 05/04/2018 6:44:19 PM PDT by blueyon
The FBI will not attempt to obtain messages exchanged on the personal devices of Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, the FBI officials who came under fire after it was revealed they exchanged text messages critical of President Trump, despite requests to do so from a top Republican senator.
Charles Thorley, the acting assistant director of the FBIs office of congressional affairs, wrote in a letter this week to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, that FBI employees are required to adhere to record keeping policies in place where communications constitute records under the Federal Records Act.
He added in the letter that the FBI is not otherwise obligated to collect and/or retain all communications between its employees.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Disband the Federal Basij Idlers and let them guard convenience stores and car lots at night. They are otherwise useless, except for liquidating civilians in the boonies and running minion errands for the Clintons.
Lisa Page resigned Friday night See thread 3652750.
“But they cant go to the trouble of securing government info stored on private devices in violation of US law.”
Do we know whether those phones were personal property or gov’t issued property? (honest question)
The NSA most certainly can obtain them!
Yoga. Coming from a woman who probably hasn’t touched her toes in 10 years.
Did Sessions excuse himself from the job of AG? Where the hell is Sessions. He should RESIGN, for the good of the Republic.
Jeff has his priorities. Were these deep-state seditionists stoners, he would have crushed this coup d'é·tat in its infancy!
Wake up, AG Sessions, wake up or retire, you old fool
Someone needs to check if he can fog a mirror.
Doesn’t the IG have them, or U.S Attorney John Huber, who is investigating the behavior of the FBI during the 20q6 campaign?
No need to as they have been cooperating in the DOJOIG investigations.
I believe U.S Attorney John Huber, who is investigating the FBI's actions during the campaign has subpoena power, and authority to recommend criminal charges.
That’s not what Sessions said in his March 29 letter to Grassley describing John Huber’s role.
He said Huber is “leading an effort” to “evaluate certain issues previously raised” by Grassley’s committee.
He described Huber as conducting a “review” and that Sessions would consider whether a Special Counsel should be appointed to conduct a criminal investigation “at the conclusion of his review.”
There is absolutely zero reason from Sessions’ description of the role he gave Huber to believe Huber has been authorized to empanel a grand jury or has been assigned FBI agents to actually collect evidence in a criminal investigation.
It seems clear Huber is merely conducting a “review” to “evaluate issues” and maybe later Sessions will allow a criminal investigation after hearing the results of Huber’s “review.”
That's the rumor. We don't know that for a fact.
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Sessions will retire one day he gets Trump.
The energy in the DOJ is directed entirely at the - Get Trump at all costs Op.
Its not hard to figure this out. Everyone is afforded every possible benefit of the doubt, except those linked to Trump. Those are persecuted with their hair on fire urgency, and every damning leak and exposure is made.
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The FIB can’t possibly investigate themselves.
We need to outsource it to Putin.
My first thought, too. They took all of Cohen’s phones, computers, hard drives, tablets...everything.
It doesn’t seem to matter if it is personal phones or FBI issued phones. Recall that the FBI-issued cell phone of Strzok suddenly had problems due to software upgrades and other issues and voila all the messages between Page and Strzok from Dec. 14, 2016, to May 17, 2017 vanished.
Further back, he chief of the FBIs Violence Crimes division was sent to prison for destroying Ruby Ridge evidence and the FBI suppressed mounds of evidence regarding its final assault on the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas in 1993.
Clinton smashes her own cell phones and (so far) gets off Scot free.
Corruption everywhere you look.
They can are pretty lenient when it suits them.
Amazing. FBI is supposedly a counter-intelligence agency, but is not required to track -- i.e. collect and retain! -- communications of its own employees?
No wonder Robert Hanssen got away with it for so long!!!
These people are not serious. Disband them!
We were told by Sara Carter that Congress already has this, #releasethetexts I thought.
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