As Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel rages on, attention has been drawn to an FBI agent who was removed from the probe: Peter Strzok. Strzok had been removed after it was discovered that he and his mistress Lisa Page, also at the FBI, had exchanged a number of texts where they express anti-Trump sentiments – and then some.
In one series of texts, Strzok recounts meeting with former Deputy FBI Director Andy McCabe: “I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office – that there’s no way he [Trump] gets elected – but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk,” Strzok texted on Aug. 15, 2016. “It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.”
Strzok also worked on the Clinton email probe and interviewed fired former national security Michael Flynn during the Russia probe. Stzrok also edited Comey’s infamous July 2015 statement, in which language changed from calling her ‘grossly negligent’ to Comey labeling her conduct “extremely careless.”
Being anti-Trump is hardly a crime for one of Mueller’s Special Counsel lawyers, given that zero of the lawyers on his team are Republicans, and at least 9 of the 17 are Democrats. The real “crime” is that Strzok and Page left a paper trail of their bias, which threatens to delegitimize Mueller’s probe in the public eye. It also didn’t help that the texts seem to indicate some collusion against Trump at the FBI. That’s probably why the Special Counsel waited for 6-months after removing Strzok to disclose his texts.
Comey, now on his book tour, is denouncing the texts, presumably because he realizes how bad it makes the Bureau he used to head look.
According to the Daily Mail:
‘It really bugs me. I think it’s terrible judgment,’ Comey told USA Today in a sit-down interview.
Comey continues: ‘It doesn’t change my view of the case, but the FBI is a public-trust organization,’ Comey said. ‘That they are bad-mouthing candidates using FBI (phones) is terrible,’ he added. In one of the texts from Strzok, after Trump won the election, he wrote Page: ‘OMG I am so depressed.’ Page wrote back: ‘I don’t know if I can eat. I am very nauseous.’
Again though, Comey himself was clearly influenced by Strzok (in changing the language in the Hillary email probe from calling her ‘grossly negligent’ to labeling her conduct “extremely careless”), and he hasn’t owned up to that. Probably because Comey himself never had any intention of charging Hillary Clinton.
And Comey himself has been badmouthing the President on TV quite a bit. Are we to believe that the biases he’s expressing now didn’t affect him while he was heading the FBI?
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