GOP senator releases additional messages from FBI agent removed from Mueller probe

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




BY BRETT SAMUELS - 01/23/18 12:43 PM EST

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) on Tuesday shared additional text messages sent by FBI agent Peter Strzok, who was removed from special counsel Robert Mueller’s team last summer after he sent anti-Trump messages.

During an appearance on a Milwaukee radio show, Johnson read some of the texts exchanged between between Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page, and called for the FBI to track down five months worth of missing messages between the two.

The newly released messages were sent two days after special counsel Robert Mueller was appointed to investigate possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Strzok, who was having an affair with Page, tells Page in the newly released text messages that he’s torn about whether to join Mueller’s team or take his career in another direction. He refers to it as “maybe the most important case of our lives.” Page, however, said multiple times she didn’t think Strzok should join the investigation.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/370281-gop-senator-releases-additional-messages-from-fbi-agent-removed-from-mueller

[mac56]

1. Fumbling, and grasping at straws.

[Fred Sanders]

2. So what? The GOP is a party of rumor mongers and molehill to mountain makers.

[Kingofalldems]

3. A total nothingburger.

[lark]

4. So fucking what?

So stupid making a big fuss about someone who is no longer on the case. Ken Starr was a RW hack with a history of going after Democrats, the case he investigated was a total bust and he ends up getting Clinton impeached for lying about sex. We already have it in writing that drumpf paid hush money to a porn star and had sex with her for around a year, way enough to indict if it were clinton, but almost ignored with the pussy grabber, woman hater in chief. WTF would I care about what someone who was just a worker on a case thinks and yet think it's OK for the president to pay hush money and hide it when it's against campaign laws since this was done to make sure she wouldn't participate in the race by releasing the information that drumpf was a boring plane jane fuck.

[madashelltoo]

5. Desperate moves!

The Repigs are desperate to find a rallying cause. Um, “This ain’t it!”

[louis-t]

6. There is no anti-trump here.

What do the other emails say? I have never seen them. This is all they have?

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Out of context

in communication context, personalities, the vibrant whole of a conversation reveal so much more. And even then there are times when meaning is not clear, words are ambiguous, emotions and volume are missing.

I would venture to say that anything can be "proven" by selective quotations. But would they all be true?

[jpak]

8. Horrors to Betsy!!!!111

[GeorgeGist]

9. Sounds like somebody had a conscience ...

and it isn't Ron Johnson.

[Mr. Ected]

10. Dumbshit Republicans adding clorox to muddy the waters

Just like the leaked DNC memos, there is nothing litigious in any of the messages.

I suppose the EFFECT on FOX devotees may be to stimulate their collective blood pressure for a few seconds, but there's no fire, much less smoke here.

[glacier99]

11. It's what they can do with it that matters

[gopiscrap]

13. welcome to DU

[kirby]

12. Fucking absurd...

Jeff Sessions hates Democrats yet it is argued that he can enforce rules equally. But some FBI guy along with the other 1/2 of the country, as well as several Republicans primary opponents think Trump is a moron and its a scandal.