I don’t care what side of the aisle you sit on. This is bad.
Remember how FBI agent Peter Strzok and DOJ lawyer Lisa Page were busted for exchanging blatant anti-Trump messages? According to new messages released by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, the two discussed hiding the messages from officials.
In new texts between the two released Thursday by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Page wrote that she was to get an Apple iPhone, likely from the FBI’s IT director.
Texted Strzok: “Hot damn. I’m happy to pilot that…we get around our security/monitoring issues?”
Page: “No, he’s proposing that we just stop following them. Apparently the requirement to capture texts came from omb, but we’re the only org (I’m told) who is following that rule. His point is, if no one else is doing it why should we.”
Oh cool. So no one has to follow the rules. Rules are for squares. That’s nice.
While it is unclear if the iPhones were private or government, the committee raised concerns of a plot to avoid rules to capture official correspondence by using non-government phones.
Committee Chairman Sen. Ron Johnson, in a letter dated January 31 to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said, “According to text messages produced to the committee, Ms. Page and Mr. Strzok make references to communicating with other FBI employees via text message, phone call, email and voicemail. Additional text messages suggest that FBI officials used non-official email accounts and messaging programs to communicate about official business.”
But naaaaah. There’s no anti-Trump corruption within the FBI. Move along minions. Nothing to see here.