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DOJ Destroyed Missing Strzok/Page Text Messages Before The IG Could Review Them
federalist ^ | 12/13/2018 | Bre Payton

Posted on 12/13/2018 9:10:43 PM PST by bitt

The Department of Justice wiped text messages between former FBI employees Lisa Page and Peter Strozk from their cell phones before the Office of the Inspector General could review them, a new report from the DOJ watchdog reveals.

Page and Strozk’s involvement with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation has been heavily scrutinized after it was revealed they had sent numerous anti-Trump text messages back and forth to one another. Mueller has been tasked with looking into whether or not Donald Trump and his campaign associates coordinated with Russian officials to steal the 2016 election away from Hillary Clinton.

The 11-page report reveals that almost a month after Strzok was removed from Mueller’s team, his government-issued iPhone was wiped clean and restored to factory settings by another individual working in Mueller’s office. The special counsel’s Record’s Officer told investigators that “she determined it did not contain records that needed to be retained.”

“She noted in her records log about Strzok’s phone: ‘No substantive texts, notes or reminders,'” the report states.

(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
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To: JewishRighter

Liberals in leadership positions in government right now are the remains of hippies from the ‘60s and ‘70s, and cocaine yuppies from the ‘80s. They make their own laws. It’s so cool that way. Obama let them loose to fly their freak flag.


21 posted on 12/13/2018 9:36:33 PM PST by JennysCool
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To: bitt

History repeats itself: Sandy Berger. So sloppy.


22 posted on 12/13/2018 9:36:35 PM PST by MilesVeritatis (Devote yourself to the truth, no matter where it leads you.)
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To: bitt

I see how much “on the job” Sleeping Sessions was. It was probably him who told them to do it.


23 posted on 12/13/2018 9:38:41 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: Yardstick

They’re stored on a server which is backed up. If they’re gone from the server and backups somebody has committed a crime. This is obstruction and destruction of evidence.

That they think this explanation will wash is absurd.


24 posted on 12/13/2018 9:39:23 PM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: bitt
DOJ watchdog: No clear 'pattern' in missing Strzok, Page texts

"The report also stated that the inspector general’s office could not recover text messages iPhones issued to Strzok and Page while they worked on the Mueller investigation.

The report says that Strzok turned over the iPhone to the DOJ once he was pulled from the special counsel’s team.

However, Strzok’s phone was reset to factory settings and reissued to another agent, meaning that it “did not contain data related to Strzok’s use of the device.”

25 posted on 12/13/2018 9:40:24 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: bitt

Destroying evidence should land all involved at the DOJ in prison.


26 posted on 12/13/2018 9:40:45 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: JewishRighter

Spot on.


27 posted on 12/13/2018 9:42:26 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Cocked, locked and ready to ROCK!)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

The trouble with that is Mueller would then go directly at Flynn’s son full force. The threat of that plus bankruptcy is reputedly what impelled Flynn to succumb.


28 posted on 12/13/2018 9:43:38 PM PST by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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To: skr

That is a definite possibility.


29 posted on 12/13/2018 9:44:30 PM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: bitt

LOL, Hell, I’d do the same thing. Flip em the finger and smash it with a hammer too. Why not? It’s not like anyone gets in trouble for destroying evidence.

At most a federal judge says something scornful. Or maybe Trey Gowdy clucks about it. But nobody is fired, arrested for contempt, fined or anything.

And that’s what will happen this time too. NOTHING.


30 posted on 12/13/2018 9:46:38 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: bitt

The DOJ and FBI are no longer legitimate law enforcement agencies worthy of trust. The Special Counsel never was legitimate.


31 posted on 12/13/2018 9:46:56 PM PST by vigilence (Vigilence)
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To: Slyfox

Do you have any details on that?


32 posted on 12/13/2018 9:49:20 PM PST by Fedora
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To: Yardstick
They are stored at both ends. Phone carrier and phone.


33 posted on 12/13/2018 9:49:28 PM PST by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: Fedora

Details? I read all the bios of both the Clintons throughout the 90s. I can’t remember which had the best details, but you could go to any used bookstore and find some good cheap copies. Or Amazon.


34 posted on 12/13/2018 9:55:39 PM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: bitt

That’s bull$hit because the powers that be in the FBI/DOJ knew full well why they were fired from Mueller’s team. There’s no excuse why their phones were wiped. Of course it was deliberate. And with the way those people lie, they could have been wiped just last week, not a month after they left Mueller’s office.


35 posted on 12/13/2018 9:56:36 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: bitt

Who will shred the shredders?


36 posted on 12/13/2018 9:57:03 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: bitt

Sure, all the msgs that implicated Barak Hussein Obama. Because he’s the one who must be protected at all cost.


37 posted on 12/13/2018 9:58:17 PM PST by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man.)
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To: Theoria

Thank you (and those who answered upthread).

That would seem to mean that resetting the phone to factory settings wouldn’t have wiped the texts.


38 posted on 12/13/2018 9:59:14 PM PST by Yardstick
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Great points about the interview notes. Mueller knew the date discrepancy with the 302, and he knew that Flynn was advised by McCabe that he didn’t need legal counsel with him when he was interrogated. It’s all in his sentencing report. I believe Mueller has known this all along. Even Comey said recently that the Flynn interview was not normal agency protocol. If Comey knew it...Mueller knew it. Knowing that, why did Mueller move ahead with charging Flynn? Well of course I know why, but if that’s the case, and Mueller didn’t provide that info to the court when Flynn was first charged, who’s obstructing justice now? Mueller withheld that evidence from the court. Any sane Judge wouldn’t have allowed a charge against someone to move ahead if the interrogation that brought the charge had been compromised.


39 posted on 12/13/2018 10:08:17 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: txrefugee
Why are these people not in jail,as we would be if we destroyed government property?

Maybe they are Hillary supporters, so they will walk. The fix is in.

40 posted on 12/13/2018 10:10:00 PM PST by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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