Trump's allies weaponizing revelations about ousted Mueller investigator

[orangecrush]

Trump's allies are weaponizing new revelations about ousted Mueller investigator Peter Strzok in what experts say is a bogus ploy


President Donald Trump's allies have latched onto recent revelations that the FBI failed to preserve five months of text messages exchanged by FBI employees Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.
Strzok was ousted from special counsel Robert Mueller's team after it emerged that he sent politically charged texts to Page during the 2016 election.
Experts say the latest Strzok-Page revelations are the result of a routine process at the DOJ and serve as little more than political noise.



"Horowitz said in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee in December that while conducting a review of the handling of the Clinton email probe, the OIG came across the politically charged texts. The OIG subsequently asked the FBI to turn over all text messages the two exchanged up until November 30, 2016, by which point the Clinton investigation had ended.

The FBI produced the text messages eight months later, on July 20, 2017, per the letter. Upon reviewing the messages, Horowitz said he met with Mueller and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on July 27, 2017 to inform them of what his office had discovered. Strzok was ousted from Mueller's team the next day.

The OIG then asked the FBI to turn over all text messages that were sent from November 2016 onward. But Tait wrote on Twitter that the DOJ had switched to a different internal system in November 2016 - and as a result, a batch of Strzok-Page texts had not been preserved. Moreover, the FBI was not obligated to preserve the messages, because it had only initially been asked to do so with messages up until November 30, 2016."


https://amp.businessinsider.com/trump-allies-peter-strzok-texts-investigation-2018-1

[democratisphere]

1. From emails to texts. redumbliCONs making mountains out of ant hills.

Anyone with a brain has sent nasty biased texts or emails about the POTUS, his family and administration. So what!

[orangecrush]

2. Truth!

More bullshit from bullshit mountain.