DOJ IG: No Evidence FBI Tried To Destroy Strzok And Page's Text Messages
Source: Talking Points Memo/The AP
By Associated Press
December 13, 2018 1:25 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) The Justice Departments watchdog found no evidence the FBI intentionally destroyed text messages of two former FBI officials involved in the Hillary Clinton email investigation.
Instead, the inspector general faulted an FBI-wide software failure that has resulted in large portions of FBI text messages not being archived.
Thursdays report examines a gap in messages from December 2016 through May 2017 from the phones of former FBI agent Peter Strzok and ex-FBI lawyer Lisa Page. The FBI ultimately managed to recover thousands of the messages.
Some congressional Republicans had suggested the messages were intentionally deleted. The inspector general report says theres no evidence Strzok and Page circumvented protocol.
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dlk
(11,597 posts)Leave it to scandal-mongering Republicans to seek out a crime in normal behavior. It speaks to their projection and the many crimes they are covering up.
slumcamper
(1,607 posts)(that's Kool-Aid, not beer)
Javaman
(62,534 posts)"of course they would say that, they are part of the deep state".
you can't fix stupid.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)for distraction, or whistle calls to the base, or for whatever reason. To cost the country the money to investigate this nonsense, and the people involved to have their reputations damaged and their time wasted....
They should rot in hell. Which I hope we have begun to present to them.