Justice Dept. watchdog confirms review of FBI agent communications

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




BY JOSH DELK - 12/02/17 02:02 PM EST

A government watchdog confirmed Saturday that it is reviewing allegations involving agency officials amid reports that special counsel Robert Mueller's team removed an FBI agent after a probe into the agent potentially sending anti-Trump text messages.

The Justice Department's Office of Inspector General (OIG) indicated that its probe into the communications of agency officials is part of the watchdog's larger review of the FBI's actions before and after the 2016 presidential election.

"The OIG has been reviewing allegations involving communications between certain individuals, and will report its findings regarding those allegations promptly upon completion of the review of them," the OIG said in a statement reported by BuzzFeed.

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Peter Strzok, a top FBI agent who worked on the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server as secretary of State, was removed from Mueller's probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election this summer over texts he sent to an FBI lawyer that shared opinions on then candidate Donald Trump, The New York Times reported.



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[SergeStorms]

1. What about Comey's interference?

What the hell difference do a few tweets matter when you have the Director of The FBI telling everyone he was re-opening the investigation into Clinton's emails?

That doesn't seem to make much damned sense to me.