Hoist By Their Own Petard
Fox News reports that the FBI blamed phone supplier Samsung for “technical” glitches that resulted in the loss of tens of thousands of text messages exchanged between FBI agents under scrutiny for their anti-Trump views. But new information about an alleged “secret society” of anti-Trump agents within the FBI and Justice Department has raised more concerns about political bias within the embattled agency.
President Donald Trump reacted: “Where are the 50,000 important text messages between FBI lovers Lisa Page and Peter Strzok? Blaming Samsung!,” the president tweeted. Earlier Tuesday, GOP lawmakers pressed the Justice Department’s watchdog to explain why he did not inform them last month that the FBI “failed to preserve” five months of text messages between Strzok and Page.
It was one of two significant developments involving the texts, as Sen. Ron Johnson, the Senate Homeland Security Committee chairman, revealed more to Fox News about the pair’s messages exchanged the day after Trump’s election victory that spoke of a “secret society.” An informant had told lawmakers that a group of FBI officials “were holding secret meetings off-site,” Johnson said on “Special Report.” He declined to further elaborate, saying that lawmakers “have to dig into it.” Lionel Nation has more.
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