Posted on 01/27/2018 5:27:21 PM PST by Stingray51
The Justice Department has given Congress less than 15 percent of the texts between FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page... How many texts have been turned over? Both Justice Department and Capitol Hill sources say the total number is in the 7,000 range, which includes all the texts handed over on two separate occasions.
How many texts will be turned over? First, it's not possible to know how many texts from the Dec. 14, 2016 to May 17, 2017 time period will be recovered and turned over. But of the 50,000 the Justice Department already has in hand, officials say they have already turned over all they're going to give to Congress.
That means Justice has decided to allow Congress to see just 7,000 of a total of 50,000 Strzok-Page texts – slightly less than 15 percent of the total number of texts the Justice Department has now. Why is that? Justice Department officials point to a Jan. 19 letter from Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd to Capitol Hill investigators explaining which texts would and would not be turned over.
"The department is not providing text messages that were purely personal in nature," Boyd wrote. "Furthermore, the department has redacted from some work-related text messages portions that were purely personal. ....
Boyd said that "in a few instances," the Justice Department consulted with the office of Trump-Russia special prosecutor Robert Mueller and made some redactions "related to the structure, operation, and substance of the [Special Counsel's Office]'s investigation because it is ongoing." Hill investigators don't really know what that covers. (The letter said if Congress has questions about redactions in a particular text, the department would "work with" Congress to further describe or reveal redacted information "in a closed setting.") ....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
There is speculation that “the affair” was used as cover for professional collusion.
The Slimes Gerbilist those two used to leak was the one who broke the “affair” matter.
We need those texts to see if the “affair” was real.
Good question given that “Boyd wrote” is actually a long term Session’s minion, not a long term DoJer.
So Mueller gets to be shadow president/attorney general??
Is this unconstitutional?
What is congress and the president going to do?
If the FBI has done nothing wrong then it has nothing to hide.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZ: The sound of the head of the DOJ.
Mueller runs RosenWeasel, RosenWeasel runs Sessions.
Does Sessions run Trump?
Uh, It’s entirely legal for the FBI to lie to you.
Not so much going the other way...
The reasoning for that is strikingly similar to Hillary Clinton’s excuse for failing to turn over all of her emails. Hmmmmm
Call Sessions up on The Twitter and ask him. /sarc
In the immortal words of Harry S Truman, Trump is responsible.
“No such thing as a personal text on a government phone. They are all purely government texts”
Or the criminal misuse of government equipment and funds
Neither the DOJ nor Mueller should have ANY say over what Congress gets to see. Congress can withhold certain texts from public release but it is Congress that must get to decide, not the corrupt and incompetent DOJ crowd and not Mueller. This is truly an outrage and must be stopped. As has been pointed, these texts were sent on taxpayer-owned telephones. Therefore, the texts cannot be “purely personal”. As has also been pointed out, the reporter who broke the story of these two lowlifes having an affair was the same reporter that Strzok was leaking to, so we have no idea whether they were really having an affair at all or if they just leaked a plausible but fictitious explanation for why they sent so many texts to each other.
This is the same shit we went through with Hillary.
Yoga, lunch and wedding plans. BULLSHIT!
“Actually, the evidence must be kept for the endless numbers of coming trials.”
First they were lost, and now withheld. The attempt is cover-up, not preservation for evidence.
This is what draining the swamp looks like.
“The department is not providing text messages that were purely personal in nature,” Boyd wrote.
What he means is they’re not providing text messages that show intent to commit felony and treason.
If youwork the numbers, you wonder what those pieces of crap were actually doing while drawing a salary from my taxes all day. I’m guessing, between making digital kissy-face and conspiring, not too damn much.
The OIG needs to get his hands on everyone of them. Right now. Pronto. No cherry picking allowed.
DOJ is a part of the Executive branch.
Why is this a thing?
“The department is not providing text messages that were purely personal in nature,” Boyd wrote.”
At this point, the number of adult, non-mentally handicapped US citizens of any party who actually believe that the above statement does not indicate a coverup is approximately... 0.000.
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