Here's What Lisa Page Had to Say About That FBI 'Insurance Policy'

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.

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:

Where does that come from?

Those e-mails from the FBI *MIDWAY* investigation into various FBI DC Headquarters Staff [AKA the *Sultans of the Seventh Floor*, though in this particular example it was from a member of the fourth floor Operations Center staff, regarding the various means by which the President could be deposed or eliminated.

The FBI [NOT the Secret Service, inverstigated itself and as usual, found it had done nothing wrong:

Before the Justice Department's inspector general report came out, virulently anti-Trump texts between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page had already become public — except for a particularly troubling exchange revealed by the IG for the first time. That's the one, sent in August 2016, in which Page says Trump's "not ever going to become president, right? Right?!" To which Stzork promises: "No. No he's not. We'll stop it."

Less discussed, but just as important, are the texts between FBI agents identified by the IG only as "Agent 1" and "Agent 5."

Both played key roles in the Clinton email "investigation," both were at Clinton's interview, and both repeatedly admitted their utter disdain for Trump and their belief that the Clinton probe was a huge waste of time. In addition, there's the mysterious anti-Trump Attorney 2, who was involved with both the Clinton email and Trump Russia investigations.

At a hearing on Tuesday, IG Michael Horowitz said the FBI wants the names. (Rep. Mark Meadows claims that names of two of them — Agent 5 and Attorney 2 — are Sally Moyer and Kevin Clinesmith.)

After reviewing their texts, the IG concluded that all five "brought discredit to themselves, sowed doubt about the FBI's handling of the Midyear investigation, and impacted the reputation of the FBI." ("Midyear" was the code name used for the Clinton email probe.)

No kidding.

Here, for example, are texts sent by Agent 1 throughout FBI's alleged Clinton investigation.

Sept. 2, 2015: "the most meaningless thing I've ever done with people acting like f***ing 9/11."

Sept. 25, 2015: "I dont care about it. I think its continued waste of resources and time and focus ..."

Oct. 26, 2015: "Its just so obvious how pointless this exercise is."

Jan. 15, 2016: Responding to a question of when the investigation would be finished, Agent 1 stated, "my guess is March. Doesnt matter what we have, political winds will want to beat the Primarys."

Jan. 28, 2016: " Alot of work and bulls**t for a political exercise."

Feb. 1, 2016: "This is the biggest political s**t show of them all. No substance. Up at dawn — pride swallowing seige."

Feb. 2, 2016: "Going well ... Busy, and sometimes I feel for naught (political exercise), but I feel good ..."

Feb. 9: "You guys have a sh**ty task, in a sh**ty environment. To look for something conjured in a place where you cant find it, for a case that doesnt matter and is predestined."

May 6, 2016, to Agent 5: "pretty bad news today ... someone has breathed some political urgency into this." (May 6 was the day news broke that the FBI was likely to interview Clinton "in the next few weeks.") Just before Agent 1 interviewed Clinton, he sent a text saying: "We have nothing — shouldn't even be interviewing. My god ... I'm actually starting to have embarrassment sprinkled on my disappointment ... Ever been forced to do something you adamantly opposed."

After conducting that interview, Agent 1 texted: "I'm done interviewing the President" — referring to Clinton.

There's also the fact that Agent 1 found what he believed to be instances of people lying to the FBI — including Hillary Clinton — but did nothing.

The IG report says that Agent 1 interviewed "a witness who assisted the Clintons at their Chappaqua residence." Here's the exchange after the interview:

FBI Employee: "boom ... how did the (witness) go" Agent 1: "Awesome. Lied his ass off."

In addition, after interviewing Clinton, Agent 1 admitted that Clinton's claim that she didn't know what the "C" marking meant on a classified document was "hard to impossible to believe."

In other words, he believed she lied.

As to Agent 5, she's just as bad. At one point she texts Agent 1 referring to Trump's "supporters like the ones from ohio that are retarded".

b On Election Day, she texted that Clinton "better win ... otherwise i'm gonna be walking around with both of my guns … and likely quitting on the spot". Later she sent a text saying "f(---) trump."/b

Other Nuggets Of Bias

The IG report unearthed other such nuggets, such as the text from "FBI Attorney 2," who said after the November election: "Viva le resistance."

So who are these FBI officials? Why do they get to remain anonymous when others, like Page and Stzork, are already public? Are they still at the FBI? If so, what are they doing?

This week, eight lawmakers sent a letter to the IG demanding the names.

"These individuals need to be held accountable and only transparency will ensure that action," the letter states.

Naturally, when the IG confronted these FBI officials with their texts, they all denied up and down that their views about the investigation or about Clinton and Trump in any way, shape, or form colored their efforts.

Right.

Yet, somehow the IG swallowed their excuses so it could report finding no bias in the investigation, a claim that stretched credulity with increasing strength the closer one looks at the report itself.

Which leads to the next burning question about this report: Was it watered down by officials at Justice and the FBI who were able to review it before it got published?

FBI Tinkering?

Earlier this month, Rep. Andy Biggs sent a letter to the IG asking to see original drafts of the report.

"We are concerned that during this time, people may have changed the report in a way that obfuscates your findings," the letter, signed by two other congressmen, says.

Meadows says he believes the FBI officials also may have altered documentation of witness interviews. Given the recent track record of these highly politicized agencies, these lawmakers are right to want to see any such changes.