Ex-F.B.I. Agent in Russia Inquiry Says Trump Is a National Security Threat
Source: MSN
WASHINGTON A former senior F.B.I. agent at the center of the investigations into Hillary Clintons email server and the Trump campaigns ties to Russia defends the handling of the inquiries and declares President Trump a national security threat in a new memoir, while admitting that the bureau made mistakes that upended the 2016 presidential election.
The former agent, Peter Strzok, who was removed from the special counsels team and later fired over disparaging texts he sent about Mr. Trump, has mostly kept silent as the president and his supporters have vilified him.
But Mr. Strzoks new book, Compromised, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times ahead of its publication on Tuesday, provides a detailed account of navigating the two politically toxic investigations and a forceful apologia of the bureaus acts. Mr. Strzok also reveals details about the F.B.I.s internal debate over investigating the president himself, writing that the question arose early in the Trump presidency and suggesting that agents were eyeing others around Mr. Trump. Mr. Strzok was himself at first opposed to investigating the president.
But in a scathing appraisal, Mr. Strzok concludes that Mr. Trump is hopelessly corrupt and a national security threat. The investigations that Mr. Strzok oversaw showed the presidents willingness to accept political assistance from an opponent like Russia and, it follows, his willingness to subvert everything America stands for.
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(493 posts)and fired as senior counterintelligence agent..I watched his testimony from beginning to end..He was telling the truth..only reason trump had him fired him for anti-Trump texts ...with a female colleague who has also come out with her story..At the rally, Trump claimed, without evidence, thatFormer FBI Lawyer Lisa Page had taken out a restraining order against Strzok.
"That's what I heard. I don't know," Trump said.
"This is a lie," Page said in a tweet responding to a clip of Trump's comments. "Nothing like this ever happened. I wish we had a president who knew how to act like one. SAD!"
Strzok is considered one of the FBIs most experienced counterintelligence agents..worked at the bureau for 20 years..they did discipline him by giving him a new position and on that day trump had him fired!
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/05/us/politics/peter-strzok-book.html?action=click&block=associated_collection_recirc&impression_id=7b381120-efc1-11ea-81bb-1f363ea09061&index=0&pgtype=Article®ion=footer
I believed him then and hopefully with all his experience, education and years he will be reinstalled with Biden..