Posted on 07/12/2018 6:49:23 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Hearing begins at 10AM EST:
Live Coverage: Peter Strzok Questioned by Members of Congress
House lawmakers are poised to question Peter Strzok on Thursday in what is sure to be a lengthy, tense standoff between Republicans and the FBI agent who once worked on special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference.
Strzok has been in Republicans' sights for several months after a Justice Department inspector general investigation revealed that he exchanged text messages before the 2016 election that were critical of Donald Trump with Lisa Page, a former FBI lawyer with whom he was having an affair at the time.
Mueller promptly removed Strzok from the Russia investigation when the messages were revealed, but Republicans have zeroed in on him as key to uncovering what they allege was systemic FBI bias against Trump during the election. Democrats, meanwhile, have cast the effort as a politically-driven charade.
Lawmakers questioned Strzok behind closed doors late last month — now, those on the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees will have the opportunity to question him publicly.
Strzok is under subpoena to testify before the committees in the public hearing.
Strzok plans to call scrutiny ‘another notch in Putin’s belt’
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Strzok reportedly plans to tell lawmakers that the focus on his anti-Trump text messages is aiding Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The Associated Press, which reviewed prepared remarks Strzok is expected to deliver, reported that the FBI agent will defend himself against the intense scrutiny from GOP lawmakers by saying his work has been free of political bias.
“Let me be clear, unequivocally and under oath: not once in my 26 years of defending my nation did my personal opinions impact any official action I took,” Strzok will say, according to the AP.
He is expected to tell lawmakers that Congress’s focus on his actions and text messages “is just another victory notch in Putin’s belt and another milestone in our enemies’ campaign to tear America apart.”
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I guess we’ll see.
Seems like Gowdy's attitude toward the FBI has flipped a couple of times. Remember in may, they "did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do."
22 years service plus army graduated high school 1987 probably born 1970—or so college 1991 probably not yet 50 years old...needs age to retire fully...what is his dob?
I heard him say 26 years of service. So maybe he was counting his military time. Assuming he went college after he got out of the Army, that would put him close to 50.
She was probably thrilled that he was somewhere/ANYwhere else. “Can’t you stay later, Honey?”
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I don't know to whom you are referring, but there was one idiot Democrat woman from Trenton, N.J. who kept calling the witness .... Peter Scrozak as in the drug Prozak.
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There’s good people in the FBI and bad people - good decisions and bad. Hopefully in time the good people will win out...
Thst’s her. I read her 2 sons held up a store.
Not him. There was a very handsome young man who showed up in the same spot later in the day.
All those people in the Black Democratic Caucus are too dumb to be let out of the house alone!
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