Oh my, all of this involving the Times I'm sure would make Uncle Walter proud, wouldn't it?
Posted on 09/12/2018 5:38:14 PM PDT by markomalley
A series of text messages released Wednesday reveal that former FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok was in contact with reporters at the New York Times and Washington Post regarding stories they published about the FBI’s investigation into alleged collusion between Russia and President Trump’s campaign during the spring of 2017, according to a series of texts obtained by SaraACarter.com.
The text messages suggest that Strzok, along with his paramour, former FBI Attorney Lisa Page, had been in contact with reporters from both newspapers. Strzok specifically mentioned two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times writer Michael Schmidt his text message to Page.
Strzok wrote, “Also, apparently Times is angry with us about the WP (Washington Post) scoop and earlier discussion we had about the Schmidt piece that had so many inaccuracies. Too much to detail here, but I told Mike (redacted) and Andy they need to understand we were absolutely dealing in good faith with them,” Strzok texted to Page on April 14, 2017. “The FISA one, coupled with the Guardian piece from yesterday.” (The New York Times did not respond immediately for comment. The Washington Post also did not respond immediately for comment.)
According to several U.S. officials who spoke to this news outlet, “Mike” mentioned in Strzok’s text message is Mike Kortan, the former FBI assistant director for public affairs who retired in February. “Andy” was in reference to former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. McCabe was fired earlier this year after it was revealed in DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report that said he lied to investigators and leaked information to the media.
These series of text messages appear to contradict statements made by Strzok’s attorney, Aitan Goelman, after it was revealed earlier this week that Strzok and Page discussed a “media leak strategy” in some of their text messages. Goelman insisted, “the term ‘media leak strategy’ in Mr. Strzok’s text refers to a Department-wide initiative to detect and stop leaks to the media.”
Goelman’s statement came after President Trump tweeted about the newly revealed text messages and North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows sent a letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein asking him to investigate the text from Strzok regarding the “media leak strategy.”
In light of the recent Strzok and Page text messages, Meadows has also asked Rosenstein to provide the committee with the opportunity “to review text messages, emails, and written communication form FBI and DOJ officials Stu Evans, Mike Kortan, and Joe Pientka between June 2016 to June 2017,” first reported here.
Meadows stated in the letter, “to be clear, we are not suggesting wrongdoing on the part of Evans, Kortan, and Pientka- and, in fact, previously reviewed documents suggest that some of these individuals may share the committees’ same concerns.”
On April 11, 2017, The Washington Post broke a story titled “FBI Obtained FISA warrant to monitor former Trump advisor Carter Page,” which contained detailed information that the FBI had obtained a secret court order to monitor Page, a short-term Trump campaign volunteer, in October 2016. The story, written by Ellen Nakashima, Devlin Barrett and Adam Entous referred to unnamed U.S. law enforcement and other U.S. officials who told The Washington Post that the FBI and Department of Justice obtained the warrant on Page after “convincing a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court judge that there was probable cause to believe Page was acting as an agent of a foreign power.”
However, in April 2017, former FBI Director James Comey had signed the third renewal on Page, according to reports. In June, Rosenstein would sign off on the fourth FISA warrant renewal application to allow the FBI to continue monitoring all of Page’s communications, which ended in September 2017, after the renewal expired.
“It may constitute a waiver of any reason for secrecy provisions that are part of a warrant application,” said criminal and civil rights attorney, David Schoen. “Under the rules of the FISA court, their disclosure to a third party should have been revealed to the FISA court. It’s a material fact that should be disclosed under the FISA court rules and besides all that it would certainly violate FBI rules. The question is why was he doing that? Why was he leaking it?”
Schoen believes there is no reason the FISAs should not to be declassified considering they were willing to leak the information to the Washington Post.
The Washington Post story also suggested that the FISA warrant on Page “is the clearest evidence so far that the FBI had reason to believe during the 2016 presidential campaign that a Trump associate was in touch with Russian agents.”
Page, who has denied any wrongdoing and has never been taken into custody for the claims made by the FBI, said his life was turned upside down when his name was leaked to the media. He said he has also received death threats and his reputation was tarnished after former British spy Christopher Steele leaked parts of his unverified anti-Trump dossier to the media.
“Like I’ve said all along this is a complete joke,” Page told SaraACarter.com. “It’s not about me, they are just trying to undercut the Trump administration’s accomplishments.”
QObama and HIlliary have EVERYONES FBI FILES!!!
Sara Carter is being very nice by referring to Lisa Page as a “paramour” instead of what she is, which is an adulterous skanky hoe.
Strzok is so hideous and narcissistically evil, it’s hard to come up with an accurate and succinct description of him.
In the end the Skanky Hoe told her hideous sex partner to “not ever text me again.” LMAO
Because they're deep state heroes and the deep state still controls the DOJ/FBI and many of the other "intel" agencies and Congress (and much of the judiciary). They all have dirt on each other which assures their silence. They're still betting they can beat, or at least wait out Trump and continue to do business as usual.
I see the two lovebirds had by then implemented their “insurance policy” phase.
“The noose is tightening. This is beginning to look like a complex sting operation.”
If that’s the case, they’d better hurry it up. If Congress goes to the democrats in November, the whole process hits the skids.
.… and Lisa Page told her husband that she was working late every night, stopping leaks with Peter, working with pipes.
Yes, these two were just super heroes.
Its time we started calling the two of them “The Plumbers”.
The progs are so fond of dragging up Watergate analogies, so lets help them with one.
Their go by to Watergate and the Press is no one was prosecuted for the grand jury leaks to the press from the FBI. They are planning on the same thing to happen i.e. in the public eye the greater good was served albeit the greater good was nothing more than a coup.
Surely agree Sessions should have been fired early on. Hopefully not too late.
By tarring the whole FBI, you reveal a petty vindictive failure to examine the totality of the facts. The “FBI” was not really involved. The treachery was conducted by a few political apparachticks at the very top,
Oh my, all of this involving the Times I'm sure would make Uncle Walter proud, wouldn't it?
so I assume this is prosecutable? Criminal not civil?
Fox is highest in cable news. The other networks have more viewers when it comes to the nightly news.
I agree.
I think part of the problem is indeed that the whole thing IS somewhat complicated.
I liken it to the Whitewater Investigation. If you take the time to try to absorb it, it is clear there was criminal behavior on the part of Hillary Clinton. But it takes some commitment to wade through it, and most Americans have an understandable tendency to have their eyes glaze over after about three minutes on stuff like this.
That tendency is what the media and the Left primarily are banking directly on exploiting, and they do it shamelessly. It is their current Modus Operandi with all things Trump.
It is why they lurch seamlessly from one anti-Trump media scrum to another. Did anyone wonder today why Puerto Rico is BACK in the news and how it is all Trump’s fault? That isn’t an accident.
Dan Bongino often describes the hows-and-whys of this in the context of what we see each day, and I buy into it completely. They are so unhinged now they are even blaming the hurricane itself on Trump.
The Left is fighting a rear-guard action, because they have nothing else, and it has become so clear that the entire “Russia Collusion” fabrication is unraveling, witness this article by Sara Carter, and there are others like Jeff Carlson, Chuck Ross, Lee Smith, John Solomon, Byron York, Margo Cleveland, and the like who are doing the work that the media SHOULD be doing to expose this.
Unfortunately, as the Left has discovered to their delight, many Americans STILL watch media offerings without considering there might be more to the presentation the media makes with events and stories than the desire to inform Americans of the truth.
All government jobs are invested with liberals. There may be some good agents but The FBI is manned and run by liberals. Therefore, it is corrupt. There was a chart posted on fr documenting all the anti-trump agents that were leaking to the media about the Russian investigation. It was something like 30-50 agents and that’s just what we know about so far. This goes much, much deeper than that. Question: if they are so awesome why aren’t they policing themselves regarding this conspiracy? There are no arrests my friend. Just let that sink in.
“Why on earth are these two traitors still walking around free? Why aren’t they prosecuted and set to spend the rest of their miserable lives in prison?”
Which corrupt Trump hating D.C. judge would you like them to appear before to have their cases dismissed? There are plenty to choose from.
You're operating under an inaccurate assumption here.Members of the American press aren't dupes or puppets.They're active,enthusiastic co-conspirators.
Thanks markomalley.
Meadows: We’ve got proof Strzok & Page illegally colluded with media, we’ve got the reporters’ names
Business & Politics | September 13, 2018 | Samantha Chang
Posted on 09/13/2018 4:36:26 AM PDT by John W
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3687150/posts
Samantha Chang? Really?
Im so glad my tax dollars go to people like this.
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