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House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes is wondering why he and his committee were kept in the dark about FBI agent Peter Strzok’s reassignment from special counsel Robert Mueller’s team in July. Three months after requesting information, it’s now coming out that Strzok deeply opposed President Trump, calling into question his involvement in the current Russia investigation, a previous one, and the Hillary Clinton email investigation last year.
In texts sent to FBI lawyer Lisa Page, Strzok expressed extreme anti-Trump perspectives. This bias should have prevented him from playing such instrumental roles in investigations about him and his opponent. The texts were released to Mueller’s team by Page who had received them during an extra-marital affair she and Strzok were having.
Nunes only found out about it from reports by the Washington Post and New York Times despite making requests to the FBI months ago. Strzok has been transferred to the FBI’s human resources office.
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Word of the messages and the affair were news to Nunes, even though the committee had issued a subpoena that covered information about Strzok’s demotion more than three months ago. The committee’s broadly worded subpoena for information related to the so-called Trump dossier went to the FBI and FOJ on Aug. 24. In follow-up conversations on the scope of the subpoena, committee staff told the FBI and DOJ that it included information on the circumstances of Strzok’s reassignment.
Top FBI official assigned to Mueller’s Russia probe said to have been removed after sending anti-Trump texts
The former top FBI official assigned to special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election was taken off that job this summer after his bosses discovered he and another member of Mueller’s team had exchanged politically charged texts disparaging President Trump and supporting Hillary Clinton, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.
Peter Strzok, as deputy head of counterintelligence at the FBI, was a key player in the investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server to do government work as secretary of state, as well as the probe into possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia in the 2016 election.
Mueller Removed Top F.B.I. Agent Over Possible Anti-Trump Texts
The discovery of the text messages came at a crucial moment in Mr. Mueller’s investigation. At the time, Mr. Mueller was ramping up his investigation into Mr. Trump’s former advisers, while also coming under criticism for putting many donors to Democratic candidates on his team. Some conservatives encouraged Mr. Trump to fire Mr. Mueller, saying the investigation was tainted. Mr. Trump seriously entertained the idea but ultimately backed down.
It is not clear what Mr. Strzok said in his text messages. F.B.I. regulations prohibit agents from working with political campaigns, but they remain free to express opinions “as an individual privately and publicly on political subjects and candidates.”
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