Another FBI Scandal

Bombshell: FBI covered up scandal involving both Hillary and Obama at the same time

January 22, 2018

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The Justice Department released a fresh batch of texts exchanged between top FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page to Congress last week.

One of those messages mentions a notable omission in James Comey’s statement closing out the Clinton email probe. An earlier draft referred to emails exchanged between Clinton and former president Obama while Clinton was “on the territory of a hostile adversary,” but the reference to Obama was later changed to “senior government official,” and ultimately was omitted entirely.

It was revealed late last year that the language in Comey’s statement had been changed significantly from “grossly negligent” to “extremely careless” to exonerate Clinton of any wrongdoing. Comey’s original statement also said that it was “reasonably likely” that hostile hackers were able to access Clinton’s unsecured server, but was changed to “possible” in the final version.

FBI covered up Obama-Clinton exchange

The Justice Department provided 384 pages of texts to Congress on Friday. The newly released messages, dating from the spring and summer of 2016, mostly deal with the Clinton email probe.

Strzok, who worked on the Trump-Russia investigation before his dismissal over alleged anti-Trump bias, also worked on the Clinton email investigation.

One message mentions changes in Comey’s statement closing out the Clinton email probe. Earlier draft language mentioned that Clinton used her private server to email Obama while Clinton was “on the territory” of a hostile adversary. The reference to Obama was at first changed and then erased altogether.

The AP reports:

One of the messages references a change in language to Comey’s statement closing out the email case involving Clinton, Trump’s Democratic opponent in the 2016 presidential election.

While an earlier draft of the statement said Clinton and President Barack Obama had an email exchange while Clinton was “on the territory” of a hostile adversary, the reference to Obama was at first changed to “senior government official” and then omitted entirely in the final version.

This looks more than a little suspicious.

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Five months of texts vanish

The FBI told Congress its system had failed to preserve five months of texts, ranging from Dec. 14, 2016, to May 17, 2017, the day Mueller was appointed to lead the investigation. The FBI blamed the vanished texts on “misconfiguration issues related to rollouts, provisioning, and software upgrades that conflicted with the FBI’s collection capabilities.”

But wait – there’s more.

Others texts suggest that Strzok and Page knew the outcome of the Clinton email probe before it was over. The two bemoaned the ill-timing of former Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s announcement that she would defer to the FBI’s conclusion on the case, which came just days after a meeting between Lynch and Bill Clinton aboard her plane in Phoenix.

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“Timing looks like hell,” Strzok texted Page on July 1, 2016.

“Yeah, that is awful timing,” Page said, adding, “It’s a real profile in couragw [sic], since she knows no charges will be brought.”

Comey announced on July 5, 2016, that no charges would be brought against Clinton.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray on Sunday asking for an explanation for the missing texts.

Meanwhile, Republicans have seized upon the texts, including the missing ones, to step up calls for a second, independent special counsel to investigate the FBI’s handling of the email probe. While Democrats describe Republicans’ criticism as an attempt to smear the FBI, it is getting harder to not connect the dots.