GIULIANI CALLS FOR MUELLER TO BE INVESTIGATED FOR DESTRUCTION OF FBI EVIDENCE
Source: The HILL
Rudy Giuliani has an unmistakable New Years message for special counsel Robert Mueller: It is time for the chief investigator in the Russia case to be investigated in 2019.
In wide-ranging interviews with Hill.TVs Buck Sexton and me on Wednesday and Thursday, President Trumps defense lawyer pointedly accused Muellers office of destroying evidence by allowing text messages from now-fired FBI official Peter Strzok and his FBI lover, Lisa Page, to be erased in the Russia probe.
Mueller should be investigated for destruction of evidence for allowing those text messages from Strzok to be erased, messages that would show the state of mind and tactics of his lead anti-Trump FBI agent at the start of his probe, Giuliani said.
The Justice Department inspector general reported this month that it found large gaps in the preservation of official government text messages between Strzok and Page, the two top FBI agents who helped to start the Russia probe in 2016, who were having an affair at the time, and who expressed disdain for Trump.
Read more: https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/422963-giuliani-calls-for-mueller-to-be-investigated-for-destruction-of-fbi-evidence?userid=216387
Bullshitters are as bullshitters do.
AJT
(5,240 posts)uppityperson
(115,674 posts)niyad
(112,432 posts)But it did not attribute the missing texts to malicious intent on behalf of the two but rather a technology failure by the FBIs tool meant to sweep up text messages, according to a new report.
Deuce
(959 posts)19,000 emails from the period December 15, 2016 through May 17, 2017 were recovered. That period predates the appointment of Mueller as special counsel and the assignment of Strzok and Page to the investigation. Texts from the phones they used after being assigned to the special counsel's office were not recovered because those phones were wiped clean (and in one case reassigned to a different person) between the time Page and Strzok left the Special Counsel's office and the time the Inspector General requested that those phones be provided for inspection. One of the phones, I believe it was Strzok's, was inspected by DOJ personnel before it was wiped and nothing of substantive significance was found.
All of this is spelled out in the report:https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2018/i-2018-003523.pdf
Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)Nothing.
AZ8theist
(5,338 posts)of TREASON, Rudy..
BTW, Rudolph....
Maybe you're a little buggy because you knew of something, something ...BEFORE the election???
Perhaps you COMMITTED A CRIME AS WELL?????????????????????????
Maeve
(42,224 posts)Other than that, Rudy...
The stupid, it hurts...
onenote
(42,374 posts)See post 11
Maeve
(42,224 posts)and he's still on about the dossier and repeating discredited lies. You'd think he'd get dizzy with all the spin.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)still trying to impress tRump. Or trying to cover his own Russian loving arse??
Botany
(70,289 posts)... and obstruction of justice. Because after all the real crime is two FBI agents on their own
time thought that Trump is screw up and crook.
Mueller should be investigated for destruction of evidence for allowing those text messages from Strzok to be erased, messages that would show the state of mind and tactics of his lead anti-Trump FBI agent at the start of his probe, Giuliani said.
No, Rudy the FBI probes were started after Carter Page, Cohen, Flynn, Trump, and others reached out to
the Russians for help in rigging our elections and to help pay for the republicans running for elections too.
SWBTATTReg
(21,856 posts)that he considers himself a cyber expert.
UpInArms
(51,252 posts)He was one of the agents who interviewed Flynn
FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)Pachamama
(16,874 posts)ananda
(28,782 posts)What an eejit
Shell_Seas
(3,318 posts)PatSeg
(46,791 posts)poking the hornet's nest. You have to be a major fool to keep antagonizing Robert Mueller who undoubtedly knows everything, including any dirt on Rudy.
MyOwnPeace
(16,887 posts)take away Rudy's week-end pass from the home?
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)relevant. .... Poor Rudy.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)The presidents defense lawyer.
turbinetree
(24,632 posts)how about the 400 million that your "guy and his family defrauded"................lets see his tax returns for New York, to clear this up shall we.......................
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,786 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,063 posts)The clown show continues
AJT
(5,240 posts)The gap in the FBIs collection of messages, which affected 10 percent of phones, lasted from December 2016 to May 2017.
n the middle of 2017, both got new S7s. When each joined the special counsels team, they were also given those iPhones.
Now, notice a key point here: There were not going to be any messages on the iPhones related to the start of the Russia investigation because they didnt get the phones until well after Mueller had been appointed! Unless Strzok and Page decided a year after the investigation began in July 2016 to start reminiscing over text about their theoretical plot to take down Trump, any messages on those phones wouldnt have revealed anything about its genesis.
onenote
(42,374 posts)Mueller was appointed special counsel in May 2017. The texts that remain unrecovered are those from the brief period in mid 2017 when page and Strzok were assigned to the investigation. Strzoks phone was reviewed before it was wiped and nothing of consequence found. Pages phone was not reviewed but any texts between her and Strzok should have been reviewed when Strzoks phone was reviewed.
Tom Rinaldo
(22,911 posts)That's how that pack operates. You can tell what they've been up to from what they accuse others of doing.
Javaman
(62,439 posts)goes off on a wild tangent with bullshit for evidence.
underpants
(182,271 posts)Yep. That Buck Sexton.
paleotn
(17,778 posts)He's just going to spout bullshit and everyone knows it. I'm sorry, but bullshit isn't a different "side" worth covering. It's something you scrape off your shoes.
Renew Deal
(81,801 posts)What is actually lost?