on just their two phones, nobody elses... 
get them from the NSA!
Posted on 01/21/2018 11:49:50 AM PST by billorites
The FBI “failed to preserve” five months worth of text messages exchanged between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, the two FBI employees who made pro-Clinton and anti-Trump comments while working on the Clinton email and the Russia collusion investigations.
The disclosure was made Friday in a letter sent by the Justice Department to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC).
“The Department wants to bring to your attention that the FBI’s technical system for retaining text messages sent and received on FBI mobile devices failed to preserve text messages for Mr. Strzok and Ms. Page,” Stephen Boyd, the assistant attorney general for legislative affairs at the Justice Department, wrote to Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, the chairman of HSGAC. (RELATED: FBI Agents Discussed ‘Insurance Policy’ Against Trump Win)
He said that texts are missing for the period between Dec. 14, 2016 and May 17, 2017.
Boyd attributed the failure to “misconfiguration issues related to rollouts, provisioning, and software upgrades that conflicted with the FBI’s collection capabilities.”
“The result was that data that should have been automatically collected and retained for long-term storage and retrieval was not collected,” Boyd wrote.
Strzok and Page were significant players in the Clinton and Trump investigations. As deputy chief of counterintelligence, Strzok oversaw the Trump investigation when it was opened in July 2016. Weeks earlier, he had wrapped up his work as one of the top investigators on the Clinton email probe.
Both worked on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation until July 2017.
But Strzok was removed after the Justice Department’s inspector general discovered text messages he exchanged with Page, with whom he was having an affair, in which both expressed strong criticism of Trump.
In one text, Strzok called Trump and “idiot.” In another, he said “F Trump.”
In another more cryptic exchange, Strzok spoke of an “insurance policy” that the FBI sought to take out in case Trump defeated Clinton in the election.
“I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office — that there’s no way [Trump] gets elected — but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk,” Strzok wrote to Page on Aug. 15, 2016.
“Andy” was a reference to FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.
“It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40,” Strzok added. Republicans have questioned what Strzok meant by “insurance policy.”
Page left the Mueller team prior to the discovery of the texts.
Johnson expressed concern over the missing text messages, which were sent during a key period of the Russia investigation. During that time frame is when the Steele dossier was published by BuzzFeed News, when Strzok participated in a Jan. 24 interview with then-national security adviser Michael Flynn, and when James Comey was fired as FBI director.
The end date of the missing Strzok-Page texts is also significant. That’s because May 17 is the day when Mueller was appointed to take over the FBI’s probe of possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government.
“The loss of records from this period is concerning,” Johnson wrote in a letter sent Saturday to FBI Director Christopher Wray.
Along with its disclosure of the missing text messages, DOJ’s Boyd handed over 384 additional text messages exchanged between Strzok and Page.
Imagine the “press” reaction if the Nixon White House had said that subpoenaed tapes had been accidentally destroyed. They would still be screaming. Get off your duff, AG Sessions, and clean out the nest of vipers at the upper levels of the FBI, pronto!
on just their two phones, nobody elses...
get them from the NSA!
So, what other messages were lost? Or was it only messages from these two traitors?
This swamp is deep. How far down would one have to go to find one honest FBI agent to turn whistleblower? Obviously all the way to the bottom and still there were none to be found.
WOW!
Imagine that. What a freaking coincidence.
Many are traitors to the Constitution, to the Rule of Law, to Decency and to the USA...many.
What’s the problem? Trump and Sessions are playing 9D chess and already have all this in the bag. Even Mueller is in on draining the swamp! /sarcasm
He said that texts are missing for the period between Dec. 14, 2016 and May 17, 2017.
Are there any comms missing BEFORE Dec 14?
Boy, that dress is Moochelle weapons-grade fugly!
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Atlanta Olympics, 1996:
An overweight security guard Richard Jewell finds a bomb in a crowded Atlanta park, an act of terror. He alerts the cops, but the bomb goes off and a desperate Bill Clinton facing a reelection bid ORDERS the FBI to simplify things by making Richard Jewell the perp.
Knowing Richard Jewell revers “real cops” the FBI brings him in for questioning, finally pretending to relent and accept his story of innocence. They then flattered him and lowered his guard by chatting him up in grand style like A Law Enforcement Colleague.
The FBI then claimed to Jewell that they were making a Training Videotape simulation in which a perp under questioning breaks down and confresses to a bombing, “Ah shucks, our actor crapped out, got sick, say Richard, would ya help us FBI guys out..?”
A micrometer away from consenting to help them with their “training video”, Jewell suddenly realizes if he cooperated with “his friends”, they might turn around use the tape against him in the world famous bombing that just transpired.
He calls his ex-roomate, a lawyer, who admonishes Jewell that he’s in very grave danger. He leaves the FBI questioning and AVOIDS LIFE IN PRISON BY A WHISKER.
YOUR FBI IS **FINE** ACTING AS AN INSTRUMENT OF POLITICAL TERROR.
It started at least 20 years ago.
I sense a whiff of incredulity amongst the Freepers.
The first thing that came to my mind and the first post, your post, said it. Well, well, well, HOW CONVENIENT!
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Perhaps you WISH TO FILE A COMPLAINT..?! ![](http://i68.tinypic.com/24pki69.jpg";;)
Uses the word approximately to delineate the time frame.
Anyone who gets the impression that the citizens of the United States have just been flipped off isn't wrong. And the media - those would be our "Guardians Of Democracy" - are laughing their collective butts off about it.
How long will it take for the class of new FBI agents recently addressed by President Trump to themselves become corrupted?
Because they show proof of a conspiracy to commit SEDITION.
wiped, like with a cloth?
Those love birds are a pair of crazy cut-ups.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/texts-turned-fbi-agent-off-mueller-team-52502647
Doesn’t weasel on the time frame, but nowhere is it stated that these are the ONLY comms not turned over.
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