FBI OFFICIALS DISCUSSED ‘MEDIA LEAK STRATEGY’ AHEAD OF MAJOR TRUMP-RUSSIA REVELATION

[TigerGrowls]

https://dailycaller.com/2018/09/10/strzok-media-leak-text/

FBI OFFICIALS DISCUSSED ‘MEDIA LEAK STRATEGY’ AHEAD OF MAJOR TRUMP-RUSSIA REVELATION
3:57 PM 09/10/2018
Chuck Ross | Reporter

• Peter Strzok sent Lisa Page a text message about “media leak strategy” during a key point in the Trump-Russia probe.
• Strzok sent the message just before The Washington Post published a bombshell story about the FBI obtaining surveillance warrants against Carter Page.
• North Carolina Republican Rep. Mark Meadows says the messages raise “grave concerns” about an “apparent systemic culture of leaking” at the FBI and DOJ.

Newly released text messages show disgraced FBI official Peter Strzok asked to speak to former FBI lawyer Lisa Page about a “media leak strategy” during a crucial period of the Trump-Russia investigation in 2017.

The text messages were revealed Monday by North Carolina Republican Rep. Mark Meadows, a member of the House Oversight & Government Reform Committee.

“Our review of these new documents raises grave concerns regarding an apparent systemic culture of media leaking by high-ranking officials at the FBI and DOJ related to ongoing investigations,” Meadows wrote to U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in the letter, which was obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation and first reported by Sara Carter.

Meadows pointed to text messages Strzok sent to Page on April 10, 2017, and April 12, 2017.


In the first message, Strzok, who then served as deputy chief of the FBI’s counterintelligence division, wrote to Page that: “I had literally just gone to find this phone to tell you I want to talk to you about media leak strategy with DOJ before you go.”

Strzok was at that time the lead investigator on the FBI’s probe into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government. He joined the special counsel’s investigation after it was formed in May 2017. He was removed from the investigation in July 2017 after the discovery of anti-Trump text messages that he exchanged with Lisa Page. He was fired from the FBI on Aug. 10. (RELATED: Strzok: ‘We’ll Stop’ Trump Presidency)

In one Aug. 8, 2016, message, Strzok told Page that President Donald Trump would never become president, because “We’ll stop it.”

Meadows says in his letter that an April 12, 2017, text message shows Strzok congratulating Page while referring to two damaging articles about former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

Meadows wrote that “in the text, Strzok warns Page two articles are coming out, one which is ‘worse’ than the other about Lisa’s ‘namesake.'”

“Well done, Page,” Strzok wrote. It is unclear if he was referring to Lisa Page or Carter Page.

The text messages were included in a batch of records recently provided to Congress. The FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) were initially unable to recover messages that Strzok and Page exchanged from December 2016 to May 2017. The DOJ’s inspector general was ultimately able to find the messages. (RELATED: Here’s How ‘Challenging’ It Was To Recover Strzok’s ‘We’ll Stop’ Trump Text Message)

Meadows, a staunch ally of Trump, said the texts suggest “a coordinated effort on the part of the FBI and DOJ to release information in the public domain potentially harmful to President Donald Trump’s administration.”

“For example, the following text exchange should lead a reasonable person to question whether there was a sincere desire to investigate wrongdoing or to place derogatory information in the media to justify a continued probe.”

Meadows notes that on April 11, 2017, The Washington Post broke the story that the FBI had obtained Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants against Carter Page.

While Strzok told Congress in a July 12 hearing that he did not speak to the media during the course of the Trump-Russia probe or the Hillary Clinton email investigation (Strzok worked on that case as well), Lisa Page is known to have talked to the media about ongoing investigations.

Page, who served as general counsel to then-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, provided information in October 2016 to Devlin Barrett, a Wall Street Journal reporter at the time, about an investigation into the Clinton Foundation. McCabe was fired as deputy director of the FBI after he falsely denied that he authorized Page to speak Barrett. Barrett left TheWSJ in 2017 for WaPo, and is one of the reporters who broke the Carter Page story.

“Evidence suggests senior officials at the FBI and DOJ communicated with other news outlets beyond the Washington Post, as well,” Meadows said in his letter to Rosenstein.

Meadows said that in light of the new information, congressional Republicans are requesting a review of text messages, emails and other communications from FBI and DOJ officials Stuart Evans, Michael Kortan and Joseph Pientka for the period between June 2016 and June 2017.

Strzok’s attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the text messages.


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[hopefultiger13]

Dude, you just keep on posting this drivel from conservative biased sights. Hell even wikipedia compares the daily caller to the Huffington Post. This is about as good as Sean Hannities' Hillary and Mueller "Crime Family" white boards. Sean Hannety could do a Trump "Crime Family" with people who actually are convicted felons.

Again, you've got a bunch of text messages. Great. I'm glad as shiit my text messages aren't public knowledge b/c I'd hate to try and explain some of them.

Yet, the Russian investigation into Trump leading up to the election DID NOT get leaked. You can tell b/c there was no mention of it in the media before the election. Surely the Deep State and Biased Media would have reported this if it was leaked right? I mean according to you Trumpians there was a big conspiracy to keep Trump from being elected right? So why didn't the head of the FBI sit on the Hillary email case instead of reopening it the week before the election? Why didn't the above story (The Trump Russia investigation) get into the media the week before the election? Sounds like a bunch of texts from someone who dislikes Trump, but not much of a "media leak strategy" if they didn't leak it to the mainstream press.

 

[TigerGrowls]

Dude, you just keep on posting this drivel from conservative biased sights. Hell even wikipedia compares the daily caller to the Huffington Post. This is about as good as Sean Hannities' Hillary and Mueller "Crime Family" white boards. Sean Hannety could do a Trump "Crime Family" with people who actually are convicted felons.

Again, you've got a bunch of text messages. Great. I'm glad as shiit my text messages aren't public knowledge b/c I'd hate to try and explain some of them.

Yet, the Russian investigation into Trump leading up to the election DID NOT get leaked. You can tell b/c there was no mention of it in the media before the election. Surely the Deep State and Biased Media would have reported this if it was leaked right? I mean according to you Trumpians there was a big conspiracy to keep Trump from being elected right? So why didn't the head of the FBI sit on the Hillary email case instead of reopening it the week before the election? Why didn't the above story (The Trump Russia investigation) get into the media the week before the election? Sounds like a bunch of texts from someone who dislikes Trump, but not much of a "media leak strategy" if they didn't leak it to the mainstream press.

They never thought Hillary would lose. The spying was just an ace for them and became the nucleus of the contingency plan that was enacted after Trump actually won.

 

[hopefultiger13]

They never thought Hillary would lose. The spying was just an ace for them and became the nucleus of the contingency plan that was enacted after Trump actually won.

Well, let's take a look at the polls a few days before the election. I recall the race heating up as election day got close and Clinton's lead narrowed. But I decided to make sure my memory is correct.... And yes it is. Normally I don't link secondary sources, but will make an exception here. This is a newsweek article. It has links to a bunch of national polls that show Clinton's lead shrinking (I think the largest lead was 5 points) a couple of days before the election.

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So let me get this straight. All these career intell agencies' leadership are breaking the law and risking jail time in a massive conspiracy to keep Trump from being elected, right?. They have information that will damage Hillary (the email investigation) AND they have information that will damage Trump (the Russian investigation). So given the polling data above most of which have Hillary's lead at or near the margin for error in the poll. And the risk of jail time for all these guys. They all said...

You know what? Let's break FBI policy and announce that we are going to reopen the email investigation into Hillary without going through DOJ... because we want this info out before the election. AND let's keep the Russia investigation into Trump under wraps until after the election. This can't help Hillary and would hurt Trump (which is what we've got this whole conspiracy together for in the first place) BUT we THINK Hillary is going to win, so lets hurt our own cause in a close race right before the election.

Really? Dude I don't even know what to say. You believe that load of crap, but won't even consider that the Russians have bought Trump and have owned him since 2010?

 

[orangelvis]

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[orangelvis]

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[hopefultiger13]

Nice dodge... Still haven't answered the question. IF there's this big conspiracy to keep Trump from being elected WHY did the folks involved not only not leak into that would have damaged Trump (in a CLOSE race), but actually reopen the Hillary email case in DIRECT VIOLATION of FBI POLICY the week before the election?

You know, at some point even you have to come to the conclusion that there's nothing here. First it was the IG report. It was going to blow the lid off the "deep state". And the IG concluded that there was no evidence of this. THEN the documents that the DOJ was dragging it's feet over. Well there they are and the Senate Intel committee says the FBI did their job correctly (You'll forgive me if I don't count the House Intel Committee ... because Nunes has already proved what a Trump Stooge he his by sneaking to the White House and briefing the guy that's being investigated on what the FBI has on him). But hell, even Nunes has been pretty quiet lately. So now the FISA warrents are going to bring this conspiracy to light... Jesus man.

Trump is a liar. You HAVE to know that . He even lies about the stupid stuff. Case in point the unemployment rate vs. the economic growth stat. The unemployment rate is really low. And that's awesome and Trump should get full credit for that. The economic growth is really good and Trump should get credit for that as well. But he can't be satisfied with doing really well... he just HAS to make up some shiit to make himself look better. Here's his Tweet:

"The GDP Rate (4.2%) is higher than the Unemployment Rate (3.9%) for the first time in over 100 years!"

So forget the fact that the labor department has only been publishing this data for 70 years, the fact of the matter is that the GDP has historically been higher than unemployment roughly 20% of the time. But again, Trump for some reason HAS to lie about it.

But you simply aren't open to the fact that Trump might actually be lying about something important (like owing the Russians for his success... since he was broke and bankrupt for the 4th time in 2009 and no one would lend him money but a Russian backed bank)

 

[orangelvis]

Nice dodge... Still haven't answered the question. IF there's this big conspiracy to keep Trump from being elected WHY did the folks involved not only not leak into that would have damaged Trump (in a CLOSE race), but actually reopen the Hillary email case in DIRECT VIOLATION of FBI POLICY the week before the election?

You know, at some point even you have to come to the conclusion that there's nothing here. First it was the IG report. It was going to blow the lid off the "deep state". And the IG concluded that there was no evidence of this. THEN the documents that the DOJ was dragging it's feet over. Well there they are and the Senate Intel committee says the FBI did their job correctly (You'll forgive me if I don't count the House Intel Committee ... because Nunes has already proved what a Trump Stooge he his by sneaking to the White House and briefing the guy that's being investigated on what the FBI has on him). But hell, even Nunes has been pretty quiet lately. So now the FISA warrents are going to bring this conspiracy to light... Jesus man.

Trump is a liar. You HAVE to know that . He even lies about the stupid stuff. Case in point the unemployment rate vs. the economic growth stat. The unemployment rate is really low. And that's awesome and Trump should get full credit for that. The economic growth is really good and Trump should get credit for that as well. But he can't be satisfied with doing really well... he just HAS to make up some shiit to make himself look better. Here's his Tweet:

"The GDP Rate (4.2%) is higher than the Unemployment Rate (3.9%) for the first time in over 100 years!"

So forget the fact that the labor department has only been publishing this data for 70 years, the fact of the matter is that the GDP has historically been higher than unemployment roughly 20% of the time. But again, Trump for some reason HAS to lie about it.

But you simply aren't open to the fact that Trump might actually be lying about something important (like owing the Russians for his success... since he was broke and bankrupt for the 4th time in 2009 and no one would lend him money but a Russian backed bank)

You are still making erroneous assumptions that were concocted by democrats. You need to go back and look at the ever changing time lines of when the Carter Page and George Pappadop investigations actually began. The rogue actors were desperately trying to unleash hell on Trump before the election while simultaneously working to absolve Hillary of any wrong doing. The reopening of Hill's email investigation, which lasted one or two days; even though there wee over 30K emails on Weiner's laptop, was the result of Comey/McCabe/Strzock attempting to ignore it completely as they were working on finding something to hang on Trump. Comey was FORCED to acknowledge the Weiner computer fiasco because the Southern District guys were going to allow the NY Post to do a story on it. Comey had known about the laptop since September. (In the first IG report and NOT debatable). However, he had previously sworn; under oath, to the Senate that he had no knowledge of any other emails, nor devices containing emails. HE HAD TO COVER HIS OWN SORRY ASS.

Here are some links that will clear up a lot, but only for people with an open mind and not sold out on MSM cover-up bullshit.

https://saraacarter.com/how-anti-trump-leakers-moved-from-offense-to-defense/

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...ike-mad-in-lead-up-to-trump-russia-probe.html

Based on some of your comments, you probably aren't aware that since the first IG report, 5 more FBI high level employs have been referred for criminal prosecution besides Andrew McCabe.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...tigation-over-hostile-political-messages.html

I told you people that the first IG report was just the beginning of this.
If you know any lawyers who have a PACER account, ask them to look up how many sealed federal indictment are currently sitting in all US federal jurisdictions within the states. Remember HUBER?

 

[TigerGrowls]

Well, let's take a look at the polls a few days before the election. I recall the race heating up as election day got close and Clinton's lead narrowed. But I decided to make sure my memory is correct.... And yes it is. Normally I don't link secondary sources, but will make an exception here. This is a newsweek article. It has links to a bunch of national polls that show Clinton's lead shrinking (I think the largest lead was 5 points) a couple of days before the election.

Click

So let me get this straight. All these career intell agencies' leadership are breaking the law and risking jail time in a massive conspiracy to keep Trump from being elected, right?. They have information that will damage Hillary (the email investigation) AND they have information that will damage Trump (the Russian investigation). So given the polling data above most of which have Hillary's lead at or near the margin for error in the poll. And the risk of jail time for all these guys. They all said...

You know what? Let's break FBI policy and announce that we are going to reopen the email investigation into Hillary without going through DOJ... because we want this info out before the election. AND let's keep the Russia investigation into Trump under wraps until after the election. This can't help Hillary and would hurt Trump (which is what we've got this whole conspiracy together for in the first place) BUT we THINK Hillary is going to win, so lets hurt our own cause in a close race right before the election.

Really? Dude I don't even know what to say. You believe that load of crap, but won't even consider that the Russians have bought Trump and have owned him since 2010?

@hopefultiger13 honestly I envision you as a millennial living in Mom and Dads basement out of touch with reality. I know thats probably not true, but geez....you are living in fantasy land. I know you of course think all Trump supporters are living in fantasy land. Time will tell the truth. The truth will come out.