In 'highly unusual' move, DOJ secretly invited reporters to view texts sent by ousted FBI agents

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department invited a group of reporters to its offices on Tuesday night to view private text messages sent during the 2016 campaign by Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, former investigators on the special counsel Robert Mueller's team, Business Insider has learned.

President Donald Trump's allies have seized on the texts, which were critical of Trump, describing them as evidence that Mueller's investigation into Russia's interference in last year's election, including whether members of Trump's campaign colluded with Moscow, has been tainted.

The texts were obtained as part of an investigation this year by the DOJ's inspector general into how the FBI handled the probe into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.

Strzok, a veteran counterintelligence agent who was among those overseeing the Clinton investigation, was abruptly removed from Mueller's team in late July and relegated to the human-resources department. Page left over the summer for unrelated reasons.

It is "highly unusual" for the DOJ to release private correspondences that are the subject of an ongoing investigation to Congress, let alone to the press, a source on one of the congressional committees investigating Russia's election interference told Business Insider on Wednesday.

http://www.businessinsider.com/peter-strzok-page-texts-mueller-russia-trump-2017-12

[enough]

1. Goodbye rule of law. NT

[Kirk Lover]

2. This is allowed? Fox had them last night and they were dropping this in in between election

coverage.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

3. How did those texts make Flynn lie to the FBI?

Or Papadopoulos lie to the FBI?

Or Manafort launder money?

Or the entire Trump team lie about their Russian ties?

[Takket]

4. considering the dude was fired, pretty hard to make the case the investigation is biased

[Blue_Tires]

5. Democratic governments don't work that way...

[malaise]

6. Lock them up

This is madness

[ProudLib72]

7. Get that son of a bitch Sessions OUT!

This is his doing. I know it is. You know it is.

[Freethinker65]

8. Wonder where/who Sessions got the idea from? So much for an independent justice department.

I hope someone at DOJ leaks to the press who told him it would be a good idea to do this.

[Golden Raisin]

9. Evil Elf.

[a kennedy]

10. I call him the evil imp......

and I hated that damn smirk when Senator Franken was questioning him during his confirmation hearing. Piece of shiet.