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Live coverage: FBI agent faces grilling on Capitol Hill - Peter Strzok
The Hill ^ | 07/12/18 | The Hill Staff

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’

8:30 a.m.

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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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 115th; fbi; mueller; peterstrzok; strzok; trumprussia
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To: bert

His status st the FBI matters to me. We pay his salary. Another strike against Sessions.


281 posted on 07/12/2018 9:09:47 AM PDT by surrey
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To: a little elbow grease
I'm waiting for this disgusting, arrogant, loud, repulsive, lying Peter Strzok to break into Jack Nicholson's "A Few Good Men" here...

Don't hold back - tell us how you really feel...

282 posted on 07/12/2018 9:10:25 AM PDT by GOPJ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-s1_nfs7f4 STOP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-IsingvI_I)
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To: central_va

We either crush this bureaucratic rebellion or live under their thumb.

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Exactly right. Do we allow an unaccountable fourth branch of government to go rogue and operate outside of the rule of law in its pursuit of power and control? I think not.

Time for talking about it over. The president needs to act now to restore integrity, accountability and confidence back into these agencies. Or else, it will only get worse.


283 posted on 07/12/2018 9:11:42 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: onyx
Wow. He’s arguing that his political speech is “encouraged,” and yet his political speech didn’t enter into his job.
BTW, he was texting during working hours.

He's got a split personality. Or, as one FReeper wrote....he's on Ambien! LOL

OT: Watching FBN and Cavuto. Sick of Neil's anti Trump garbage. He's arguing with Charles Payne over Trade War. Time to change the channel.

284 posted on 07/12/2018 9:11:59 AM PDT by CAluvdubya (<---has now left CA for NV, where God/guns have not been outlawed! She's done and he's won!)
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He sort of reminds me of this guy.

285 posted on 07/12/2018 9:12:28 AM PDT by BulletBobCo
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To: GOPJ; All

Wife got a HUGE promotion to Director level at SEC by Obama, just before Comey’s email announcement of no charges, Wife took the payoff to keep quiet.

Well laid out here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/7hsc71/huge_peter_strzoks_wife_removes_all_evidence_of/


286 posted on 07/12/2018 9:12:45 AM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: surrey
His status st the FBI matters to me. We pay his salary

The FBI should relieve him of his duty so that he can testify. Why on earth is he being protected?

287 posted on 07/12/2018 9:13:53 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: GOPJ

Nadler is a putz. In fact, I think he’s anti-American.

STRZOK changed the words in Comey’s statement from gross negligence to whatever the non-criminal term was.

Nobody has asked him about that.


288 posted on 07/12/2018 9:14:31 AM PDT by onyx (JOIN 300 CLUB BY DONATING $34 MONTHLY! TRUMP'S WAY IS THE WIINNING WAY)
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To: central_va

Nadler is serving Strzok hot apple pie and warm milk now:)


289 posted on 07/12/2018 9:14:47 AM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: Pravious; All

Don’t you know how many asses he had to kiss, how many bodies he had to climb over, how many reputations he had to destroy, to get where he is today?? HAVE YOU NO SYMPATHY?


290 posted on 07/12/2018 9:15:04 AM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: Starboard
Its time for President Trump to step up and get control over what is becoming an unaccountable fourth branch of government under his control by cleaning house. There is a mountain of evidence to support and justify this necessary action

I agree.

It's time to look at FBI investigations and see if there's long term systemic bias...like we found at the IRS...

How many liberal groups has the FBI 'investigated in the past three years vs how many conservative groups? Just like with Lois Lerner and the IRS - the numbers will tell the truth.

It's time to shine the light on the FBI... find the truth - THEN clean house.

291 posted on 07/12/2018 9:15:39 AM PDT by GOPJ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-s1_nfs7f4 STOP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-IsingvI_I)
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To: CAluvdubya

There are thousands of senior people just Strzok in the government whose arrogance, smugness and superiority drip off of them. He is not an exception case. He is more like the norm.


292 posted on 07/12/2018 9:15:46 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: SFConservative
Never did his personal feelings influence his official actions.

papa John stepped down because of the appearance of his bias, Strozk should have stepped down from the investigation - double standards.

293 posted on 07/12/2018 9:16:02 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Starboard

I love President trump. But he needs to act NOW or become part of the problem by default. It kills me to say that.


294 posted on 07/12/2018 9:16:40 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: CAluvdubya

Sheeeesh ...LOL....I’m watching on C-SPAN!
No yapping! In fact, plain, ole Fox News is silent, too!

I hate yapping hosts! Shame on Cavuto!


295 posted on 07/12/2018 9:17:30 AM PDT by onyx (JOIN 300 CLUB BY DONATING $34 MONTHLY! TRUMP'S WAY IS THE WIINNING WAY)
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To: Starboard

So now the doosh says this is the first time a foreign power tried to influence an election. And apparently they only tried to infiltrate Trumps campaign. Yeah, sure.


296 posted on 07/12/2018 9:17:40 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: GOPJ

Strzok DENIES he was served and accepted a subpoena to appear - this will come up again.


297 posted on 07/12/2018 9:18:27 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: BulletBobCo

he reminds me of a criminal sociopath
strange he failed a lie detector test, he believes his own crap


298 posted on 07/12/2018 9:18:41 AM PDT by rolling_stone (Hang em high)
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To: BulletBobCo

he reminds me of a criminal sociopath
strange he failed a lie detector test, he believes his own crap


299 posted on 07/12/2018 9:18:41 AM PDT by rolling_stone (Hang em high)
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To: tcrlaf; onyx

Well, this would explain ‘the wife’.... Thanks for the link:

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/7hsc71/huge_peter_strzoks_wife_removes_all_evidence_of/

ALL mentions of support for Democrats, Hillary and Obama have been scrubbed.

Meliisa Hodgman lives at the same address as Peter Strzok and is believe to be his partner/wife. She is ALSO Associate Director in SEC Enforcement Division https://www.sec.gov/news/pressrelease/2016-217.html

SPEZ:

TIMELINE:

LATE 2016 - FBI FIND NEW CLINTON EMAILS ON WEINER LAPTOP

Oct. 14, 2016 - MELISSA HODGMAN (PETER STRZOK’S WIFE) PROMOTED TO Director in SEC Enforcement Division BY OBAMA administration https://www.sec.gov/news/pressrelease/2016-217.html

Oct. 28, 2016 - COMEY ANNOUNCES FBI FIND NEW EMAILS ON WEINERS LAPTOP (CASE OVERSEEN BY PETER STRZOK)

FBI leaders knew about new emails for “weeks” before Comey letter http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-fbi-emails-investigation-20161102-story.html

... “WEEKS” Before the Comey announcement, Peter Strzok’s wife got a major promotion by President Obama administration - when FBI leaders likely knew the case her husband Peter Strzok was overseeing was about to be reopened and could implicate Hillary Clinton.

Nov 6, 2016: Comey writes a letter clearing the emails found on Weiner’s laptop http://documents.latimes.com/fbi-letter-hillary-clinton-emails.

Melissa Hodgmans salary: https://www.federalpay.org/employees/securities-and-exchange-commission/hodgman-melissa-r


300 posted on 07/12/2018 9:19:16 AM PDT by GOPJ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-s1_nfs7f4 STOP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-IsingvI_I)
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