Posted on 01/18/2020 8:08:33 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was behind the leak of text messages between the FBI ‘s Peter Strzok and Lisa Page to the press.
A court filing by the Department of Justice late Friday revealed the admission in a five-page statement by Rosenstein on the text messages between the FBI agent and lawyer back in 2016 as they were both working on investigations, Politico reported.
(Image: YouTube screenshot) Rosenstein, who stepped down from his position last year, apparently released the messages as a way to protect the FBI employees who criticized then-candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign. Before Friday’s disclosure, it had not been known who had authorized the release of about 375 messages to the press in December 2017.
“With the express understanding that it would not violate the Privacy Act and that the text messages would become public by the next day in any event, I authorized [Justice’s Office of Public Affairs] to disclose to the news media the text messages that were being disclosed to Congressional committees,” Rosenstein wrote in his statement.
The Justice Department is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit by Strzok that challenges his firing and seeks damages for invasion of privacy. Page filed a separate lawsuit against the DOJ last year, and both have claimed that the leaking of their text messages violated the Privacy Act.
“The Department’s Office of Public Affairs … recommended providing the text messages to the media because otherwise, some congressional members and staff were expected to release them intermittently before, during and after the hearing, exacerbating the adverse publicity for Mr. Strzok, Ms. Page and the Department,” Rosenstein wrote.
“Providing the most egregious messages in one package would avoid the additional harm of prolonged selective disclosures and minimize the appearance of the Department concealing information...
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It Trump is reelected (please God, shine that light one more time on the USA) it would be wonderful to see just how much of this filth could be cleansed from our lives.
If the information was “embargoed” until a specific day/time, that it is a “leak”. The fact that Rosenstein knew that congressional staffers were going to “leak” this information ahead of its official release time means that he was covering up for them and their bosses, also a crime.
Time for the man “to do the time”.
I wouldn’t say Rod is a hero. I do think he may have been the first to realize they could all actually go to prison for a long time for what they were up to.
Actually the letter freaks as you put it said if Mueller is good Rosenstein is good, if Mueller is bad Rosenstein is bad.
At least try to be fair.
That’s not a leak.
Why isn’t this jerk in jail ?
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