Texts Show FBI/DOJ May Have Rushed FISA Warrant to Spy on Trump Team

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Congressional investigators have discovered communications revealing that the FBI may have improperly coordinated with Department of Justice officials to pressure those officials to expedite a FISA warrant on Carter Page.

The communications are in the form of text messages between FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok and his colleague/mistress Lisa Page. The two were discussing the FBI’s difficulty in obtaining the warrant to spy on Carter Page. It wasn’t until close to the election, Oct. 19, 2016, that they got a FISA warrant approved to spy on Page. The texts occurred roughly one month before the Page warrant was obtained.

According to Fox News’ Sara Carter:

In one of the September 2016 text message chains, Strzok tells Lisa Page about an argument that occurred with former DOJ prosecutor David Laufman. Laufman oversaw the probe into former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, as well as the alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election. Laufman left the DOJ earlier this year citing personal reasons.

In the text Strzok complains that Laufman told him the hold-up for the application “EDVA is/was the delay.” The EDVA refers to the Eastern District of Virginia—a court that has previously issued subpeonas in the Special Counsel Robert Mueller investigation. This exchange raises concerns about FBI agents potentially pressuring prosecutors and the courts to speed up the production of information related to issuing FISA warrants, congressional staffers added. Congressional investigators originally stated that the EDVA had possibly been involved in the issuing of a FISA warrant.

In a text sent on September 8th, 2016, Page told Strzok: “Oh, just make sure I understood where things were on the [redacted] paper, trying to talk to Axelrod [Matthew Axelrod, DOJ prosecutor] because he’s ‘so angry’ with how this came over to them. I told her not to put herself out too much if Matt wants to call and yell at Andy it’s fine.” A few days after the text was sent, White House visitor logs reveal that on September 12th, Axelrod met with President Obama at the White House.

A congressional investigator told Sara Carter that “Everything here—from the texts complaining about FISA delays to the exchanges indicating coordination, to the White House visitor logs—seems to match to a disturbing degree. At best, it’s a strange coincidence worth investigating further—but it’s likely much more.”

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