Lisa Page and Peter Strzok, the reported FBI lovebirds, are the poster children for the next "Don't Text and Investigate" public service ads airing soon at an FBI office near you.
Their extraordinary texting affair on their government phones has given the FBI a black eye, laying bare a raw political bias brought into the workplace that agents are supposed to check at the door when they strap on their guns and badges.
The date of the text long has intrigued investigators: It is two days after Deputy Attorney General named special counsel to oversee an investigation into alleged collusion between Trump and the Russia campaign.
Strzok declined to say - but Page, during a closed-door interview with lawmakers, confirmed in the most pained and contorted way that the message in fact referred to the quality of the Russia case, according to multiple eyewitnesses.
The work product Strzok created to justify the collusion probe now has been shown to be inferior: A Clinton-hired contractor produced multiple documents accusing Trump of wrongdoing during the election; each was routed to the FBI through a different source or was used to seed news articles with similar allegations that further built an uncorroborated public narrative of Trump-Russia collusion.
So the FBI agents who helped drive the Russia collusion narrative - as well as Rosenstein's decision to appoint Mueller - apparently knew all along that the evidence was going to lead to "Nothing" and they proceeded because they thought there was still a possibility of impeachment.
Put yourself for a second in the hot seat of an investigation by the same FBI cast of characters: You are under investigation for a crime the agents don't think occurred, but the investigation still advances because the desired outcome is to get you fired from your job.
http://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/397902-opinion-one-fbi-text-message-in-russia-probe-should-alarm-every-american
Their extraordinary texting affair on their government phones has given the FBI a black eye, laying bare a raw political bias brought into the workplace that agents are supposed to check at the door when they strap on their guns and badges.
The date of the text long has intrigued investigators: It is two days after Deputy Attorney General named special counsel to oversee an investigation into alleged collusion between Trump and the Russia campaign.
Strzok declined to say - but Page, during a closed-door interview with lawmakers, confirmed in the most pained and contorted way that the message in fact referred to the quality of the Russia case, according to multiple eyewitnesses.
The work product Strzok created to justify the collusion probe now has been shown to be inferior: A Clinton-hired contractor produced multiple documents accusing Trump of wrongdoing during the election; each was routed to the FBI through a different source or was used to seed news articles with similar allegations that further built an uncorroborated public narrative of Trump-Russia collusion.
So the FBI agents who helped drive the Russia collusion narrative - as well as Rosenstein's decision to appoint Mueller - apparently knew all along that the evidence was going to lead to "Nothing" and they proceeded because they thought there was still a possibility of impeachment.
Put yourself for a second in the hot seat of an investigation by the same FBI cast of characters: You are under investigation for a crime the agents don't think occurred, but the investigation still advances because the desired outcome is to get you fired from your job.
http://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/397902-opinion-one-fbi-text-message-in-russia-probe-should-alarm-every-american
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