Posted on 01/18/2020 11:40:22 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said he made the call to release to the media hundreds of text messages between two high-ranking FBI employees after they criticized then-candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential race, according to new court filings the Justice Department released late Friday night.
In the messages, FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI attorney Lisa Page insulted Trump as well as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), expressing a preference for Hillary Clinton in the election. The messages, which were exchanged on government cellphones, also revealed that the two were engaged in an extramarital affair, which has made them the subject of public harassment as well as ridicule from the president.
During former special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, which looked into whether the Trump campaign accepted help from the Russian government in 2016, President Trump and his Republican allies in the House used the messages to suggest that the FBI was a biased agency that was against his campaign from the beginning.
Strzok and Page filed separate lawsuits against the Department of Justice (DOJ) last year, alleging that the release of their text messages violated the Privacy Act, which safeguards information federal agencies hold about private individuals.
The FBI fired Strzok in 2018, which he is also contesting in the suit, and Page later resigned from the agency.
Until Friday, it was unclear who authorized the December 2017 release of the more than 300 messages the two exchanged.
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Perhaps people would like to read and comment on this thread by Brian Cates. It could help dispel some of the doom and gloom. For instance, Rod Rosenstein isn’t a bad guy out to get Trump.
I would like to know why not just release them rather than leaking them.....playing favorites to reporters leave them beholden to the fib which doesnt help either organization.
Irrespective whether they were taxpayer funded phones they were discussing government business. By law its not private.
The republican senators who would vote to make this tie breaker a necessity stand a very good chance of not making it back to wherever they live, in state or out. They should consider this— they are not safe in not supporting their own party’s President.
Wasn't Cates a trust Sessions and trust Huber guy?
You’re right. We read earlier that the fornicators used their personal devices to cloak their traitorous deeds, but Strzok’s wife found out.
Lot’s of spinning and smoke going on.
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