Posted on 03/13/2019 10:15:03 AM PDT by Kaslin
Former FBI attorney Lisa Page, who conspired with fired FBI agent Peter Strzok to stop Donald Trump if he won the presidency, testified in front of a closed door session on Capitol Hill last year. Now her testimony has been released, showing the extent to which the duo was willing to go with their efforts. It reveals the "insurance policy" discussed in text messages was likely Robert Mueller's Special Counsel investigation.
"If he is not elected, then, to the extent that the Russians were colluding with members of his team, we're still going to investigate that even without him being President, because any time the Russians do anything with a U.S. person, we care, and it's very serious to us," Page said about her thinking under questioning from former Congressman Trey Gowdy. "But if he becomes President, that totally changes the game because now he is President of the United States. He's going to immediately start receiving classified briefings. He's going to be exposed to the most sensitive secrets imaginable. And if there is somebody on his team who wittingly or unwittingly is working with the Russians, that is super serious."
Text messages found between Page and Strzok, with whom she was having an affair, discuss a meeting in fired Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe's office to go over an "insurance policy." A number of other messages showed Strzok and Page repeatedly slamming Trump and his supporters while favoring the election of Hillary Clinton.
Further, her testimony reveals there was no evidence of collusion at the time the Special Counsel investigation was launched in May 2017. Nearly two years later, there is still no evidence.
The newly released transcripts of my interview with Lisa Page indicate that Peter Strzok had no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia prior to the launch of the FBI and special counsel investigations into the matter. pic.twitter.com/Mt8SChdocI— John Ratcliffe (@RepRatcliffe) March 13, 2019
As a reminder, the Department of Justice Inspector General found the anti-Trump messages exchanged between Page and Strzok to be deeply troubling. From a report released in August 2018:
"During the course of the review, the OIG discovered text messages and instant messages between some FBI employees on the investigative team, conducted using FBI mobile devices and computers, that expressed statements of hostility toward then candidate Donald Trump and statements of support for then candidate Clinton," the report states. "We were deeply troubled by text messages exchanged between Strzok and Page that potentially indicated or created the appearance that investigative decisions were impacted by bias or improper considerations."
"Most of the text messages raising such questions pertained to the Russia investigation, which was not a part of this review. Nonetheless, when one senior FBI official, Strzok, who was helping to lead the Russia investigation at the time, conveys in a text message to another senior FBI official, Page, 'No. No he won’t. We’ll stop it' in response to her question '[Trump’s] not ever going to become president, right? Right?!', it is not only indicative of a biased state of mind but, even more seriously, implies a willingness to take official action to impact the presidential candidate’s electoral prospects. This is antithetical to the core values of the FBI and the Department of Justice," the report continues.
Agreed. If he did anything technically wrong, it would be because it was something that literally everyone did unavoidably. (See Ayn Rand on multiplying laws to make all outlaws.)
I was fooled too... till the day after he was confirmed. I then turned on him 100%, and have seen no evidence that I was wrong to do so.
Even if he were playing a secret game, there was neither reason nor excuse for him abdicating the authority he had just been granted - and had accepted.
We are supposed to have Rule of Law, not Rule of Skullduggery. I am sickened by the thought that ostensible conservatives would be happy - even gleeful - with that.
Yes. We do not have a two-tiered justice system; we have a multi-tiered justice system. She is about fourth or fifth tier.
Heads will roll.
It would be ironic if Barron showed them the way.
No, she’s trying to gripe about how badly she was treated, and to get sympathy to mitigate a potential (ha) sentencing.
SCI is complicated, You think you know the white rats and the black rats, but they play the same games.
You move when political winds change in your favor, but try not to reveal your position.
Lisa Page has given is the key to this espionage.
Use it, let her run and WATCH HER.
She may have thought she could gain cover under #atmetoo
Dunno
Heads will roll.
Bastille day was real.
This all leads back to the Clintons, Obama, the DOJ, Lynch, Holder.
Does anyone seriously think BJ just happened to meet Lynch at the height of this on a golf trip when it was 115% in phoenix and they met on a 3rd plane to talk grandkids, golf and Hillary’s great cookies?
And I still think Libya was about beach front Med property at a minimum. *spit*
WOW...SO MUCH FOR REMORSE.
Straight from the unethical “it’s not illegal if you don’t get caught’ school of thought.
Nice take.
These pos still have not gotten their just rewards only their 30 pieces of silver.
Fairly? FAIRLY?
Sweetheart if I had anything to say about it, you and your partner would have stopped kicking at the bottom of the rope a LONG time ago....
Are you guys aware that McCabe launched a collusion investigation on Sessions, as well as the existing one on Trump?
Loretta Lynch has only stepchildren, no real grandkids.
I was not. What was Sessions' response? get a cup of tea and curl up into a fetal position?
Pretty much...might even have had something to do with his recusal.
It's not as if they thought of this Constitution thing, so why should they enjoy its protections?
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