DSSO_FBI lovebirds Lisa Page, Peter Strzok conspired in Michael Flynn case: docs

By Social Links for Ebony Bowden Published May 7, 2020 Updated May 7, 2020, 6:55 p.m. ET 

 

WASHINGTON — Disgraced anti-Trump FBI lovebirds Lisa Page and Peter Strzok conspired to keep the case against Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn ongoing when they found out it hadn’t been formally closed, new documents show.

In a tranche of court documents released after the Justice Department dropped its case against Flynn on Thursday, emails between then-lovers Strzok and Page in 2017 revealed they contemplated charging Flynn using the Logan Act as the FBI was preparing to end the investigation.

Two weeks before Trump’s inauguration, Strzok — one of the lead agents on the FBI investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election — sent senior FBI lawyer Page a definition of the Logan Act, saying any existing rules on the act “does not involve incoming administrations.”

Page replied: “You are awesome. Thank you.”

The Logan Act makes it a crime for unauthorized Americans to negotiate with a foreign government in a dispute with the United States, but has never resulted in a prosecution.

The emails were sent on the same day that Strzok, then FBI Deputy Assistant Director, learned that the investigation had not been closed in a timely manner, leaving it “unexpectedly, still formally open,” the court papers charge.

Strzok relayed the “serendipitously good” news to Page, telling her, “our utter incompetence actually helps us.”

His former lover, then the Special Counsel to FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, reacted with “surprise and relief,” according to the papers. 

Lisa Page and Peter StrzokRonald M. Sachs - CNP; AUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images

Documents suggest the FBI was prepared to close an investigation into whether Flynn was a Russian agent before Trump took office in January 2017 — but Strzok instructed agents to “keep it open for now.”

Their affair became public in December 2017 and sent shockwaves through Washington when the Justice Department released hundreds of text messages between the pair mocking Donald Trump and his supporters.

The scandal became central to President Trump’s belief that there was bias in the FBI investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election that Strzok led and Page worked on.

In late 2017, Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents about two contacts with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Flynn was attempting to withdraw his guilty plea ahead of sentencing. He says he did not intentionally lie. [SOURCE]

 

Pennsylvania state police commissioner reveals stunning details about Trump shooting

Law enforcement agents stand near the stage of a campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

By Holmes Lybrand and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN
Updated 3:58 PM EDT, Tue July 23, 2024

A local law enforcement commissioner revealed during a House Homeland Security hearing on Tuesday stunning new details about the security failures that led to the near assassination of Donald Trump, raising more questions for the embattled US Secret Service.

Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Christopher Paris’ striking testimony comes just one day after now-resigned Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle testified before the House Oversight Committee and largely declined to answer questions about the shooting at the former president’s Pennsylvania rally.

Paris told lawmakers about the communications between the Secret Service and local law enforcement who initially spotted Thomas Matthew Crooks, the would-be assassin. He also described a more detailed timeline from when officers first spotted Crooks in the crowd to when the 20-year-old opened fire on Trump.

Here’s what to know from Tuesday’s hearing:

Officers left post to look for Crooks

Two local law enforcement officers left a building with vantage points overlooking the roof where Crooks took aim at the former president before he fired shots, Paris testified.

Paris said that two officers with the Butler County Emergency Services Unit, a tactical force with sniper capabilities, left their posts in the building to look for a suspicious individual they spotted first and alerted to other law enforcement. That person was Crooks.

The lawmakers watched video taken during a congressional tour of the rally site Monday, from the building where the ESU officers left their post, showing the roof where Crooks eventually climbed and took shots at Trump.

“So are you then saying, to your knowledge, those ESU officers left the location where they could look out the window to go in search of this person?” Republican Rep. Dan Bishop of North Carolina asked.

“That is my understanding,” Paris said, adding that the officers went searching with other local officers in the area. “I don’t want to establish a timeline minute by minute because we don’t have that yet.”

Bishop also questioned whether the two officers who left their post could have seen Crooks climb on top of the roof if they had stayed put. Paris said he didn’t know.

Crooks fired eight times

Investigators believe that Crooks fired eight rounds before he was killed by counter-snipers, Paris said.

“I believe that the number is eight,” Paris told the committee. “Eight casings have been recovered.”

Officials had previously only confirmed that the shooter fired multiple times at the rally earlier this month.

Paris also told members of Congress that “several Secret Service agents” told the state police area commander during a walkthrough of the area before the rally that the Butler County Emergency Services Unit was responsible for securing the building where Crooks fired the shots.

Minutes, not seconds

A municipal officer came face-to-face with Crooks several minutes before the would-be assassin fired on Trump, Paris testified.

Paris said that the brief confrontation came as a pair of local officers who had learned of Crooks’ position on the roof attempted to climb up and confront the shooter. But while the officer was “dangling” from the roof, Crooks aimed his rifle at the officer and the officer fell.

“If the first shots rang out at 18:11 (6:11 pm), the hoisting up of the officer occurred probably no more – again I’m going to give you a time but I want to just put it in the context of a sequence of events – I would say at most two and a half to three minutes before that first shot rang out,” Paris said.

“It was minutes. It was a very short period of time,” Paris said. 

“But not seconds?” Rep. Dan Goldman, a New York Democrat, asked.

“I would say minutes,” Paris said, adding he was answering to the best of his knowledge.

Paris said that whether, or when, the confrontation was relayed to the Secret Service or other law enforcement agencies at the rally “remains under investigation.”

Communications between Secret Service and local law enforcement

Paris also detailed communications among law enforcement about Crooks before Trump took the stage at the rally earlier this month.

According to Paris, “there was a text thread going” with members of the Butler County Emergency Services Unit, some of whom initially spotted Crooks and reported him as a suspicious individual.

“At some point when he utilized the range finder, the suspicion was heightened,” Paris said of Crooks.

State Police then received a call and a text from the ESU about Crooks’ activity that they immediately relayed to Secret Service. Local, state and federal law enforcement were in a unified command post at the rally.

State Police “verbally turned right around and gave it to the Secret Service,” Paris said.[SOURCE]

 

 

DSSO_DOJ Slams Former FBI Agent Strzok, Accuses Him of Committing ‘Security Violations’

FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok testifies in Washington, D.C., July 12, 2018.(Leah Millis/Reuters) 

By Zachary Evans
November 19, 2019 11:22 AM 

The Department of Justice (DOJ) slammed former FBI agent Peter Strzok on Monday, in response to a lawsuit brought by Strzok against both the DOJ and FBI. 

Strzok filed the lawsuit in August after he was fired from the FBI, accusing officials of terminating his employment after pressure from President Trump. 

The former agent worked on the investigations into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private server for classified emails, foreign interference in the 2016 presidential elections, and the Mueller investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian officials. 

Anti-Trump texts Strzok sent to FBI lawyer Lisa Page, with whom he was carrying on an extramarital affair, were discovered on his FBI-issued phone. 

“Your excessive, repeated, and politically charged text messages while you were assigned as the lead case agent on the FBI’s two biggest and most politically sensitive investigations in decades, demonstrated a gross lack of professionalism and exceptionally poor judgement,” read the documents from the Justice Department. 

“Your misconduct has cast a pall over the FBI’s Clinton Email and Russia investigations and the work of the Special Counsel.” 

Strzok had written in his texts to Page that “Trump is a f***ing idiot,” and reassured her that Trump would not win the election by saying, “No, he wont. We’ll stop it.” 

The Justice Department also wrote that Strzok had committed a “security violation” after it “uncovered numerous occasions on which you used your personal email account to conduct FBI business.” 

The DOJ further accused Strzok of a “dereliction of supervisory duty” by failing to properly investigate emails and texts between Clinton and adviser Huma Abedin that were discovered on the laptop of Abedin’s former spouse Anthony Weiner. [SOURCE]

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DSSO_The SMS texts between Lisa Page and Peter Strzok while working for Obama From 2015 - 2016

[Taken from the FBI document serving as Peter Strzok's formal dismissal as a disgraced former FBI agent, serving in Washington DC under President Obama as he conspired with Lisa Page (GA) to influence the 2016 Presidential election between H Clinton and Donald Trump. Why did the investigation of themselves stop only at two mid-level bureaucrats?]

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DSSO_Only Mad That They Got Caught: What Lisa Page Thinks Is The Takeaway After Vowing To Stop Trump's Presidency in 2016

Lisa Page and Peter Strzok(Leah Millis, Joshua Roberts/Reuters) 

Former FBI attorney Lisa Page said in an interview on MSNBC that her text messages with former FBI agent Peter Strzok, which revealed political animus against President Trump, were made public only to help “beleaguered” attorney general Jeff Sessions. 

Strzok led the FBI’s investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump presidential campaign and Russian operatives, and Page worked as an attorney on the probe. 

During the 2016 election, while the pair were working on the Hillary Clinton email probe, Strzok exchanged messages with Page assuring her that Trump would not win the presidency. Strzok referred to Trump as “a f***ing idiot” and when Page worried Trump would win, Strzok wrote to her, “No, he wont. 

We’ll stop it.” 

“My speculation is [the texts were revealed] because this was not a great time for the Justice Department,” Page told MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow. 

“You had Attorney General Sessions constantly beleaguered and being lambasted by the president for failing to sufficiently protect him. . . . I think it served a useful foil.” 

Both Page and Strzok, who were romantically involved when the texts were sent, were fired from the FBI following the release of their exchanges. Strzok sued the FBI in August over what he described as his unfair termination, but the Justice Department slammed his conduct in response to the suit. 

“Your excessive, repeated, and politically charged text messages while you were assigned as the lead case agent on the FBI’s two biggest and most politically sensitive investigations in decades, demonstrated a gross lack of professionalism and exceptionally poor judgement,” the Justice Department wrote. 

“Your misconduct has cast a pall over the FBI’s Clinton Email and Russia investigations and the work of the Special Counsel.” Page herself has sued the DOJ for “unlawfully” releasing the text messages. 

Earlier this month, in her first public comments since the messages were revealed, she denied accusations of political partisanship. During her interview on Wednesday, Page continued to assert that the messages were used for political purposes. 

“There were plenty of ways to fulfill [the DOJ’s] congressionally mandated oversight responsibility without politicizing our messages, without shoveling them out in the way that they did,” Page said. [SOURCE]

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