{"id":93186,"date":"2018-01-23T14:51:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T18:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=93186"},"modified":"2018-01-23T14:52:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T18:52:20","slug":"fbi-agent-sent-jaw-dropping-text-about-no-russia-collusion-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=93186","title":{"rendered":"FBI agent sent \u2018jaw-dropping\u2019 text about no Russia collusion \u2013 Senator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_93187\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/5a6774d1fc7e9340448b4567.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93187\" class=\"wp-image-93187\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/5a6774d1fc7e9340448b4567.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/5a6774d1fc7e9340448b4567.jpg 900w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/5a6774d1fc7e9340448b4567-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/5a6774d1fc7e9340448b4567-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-93187\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI). \u00a9 Justin Sullivan \/ Getty Images \/ AFP<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>RT.com<\/p>\n<p>The FBI agent who investigated the Trump-Russia collusion claim sent a \u201cjaw-dropping\u201d text message suggesting that there was nothing to it, according to a Wisconsin senator who chairs the Homeland Security Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Strzok, formerly the deputy assistant director of the FBI\u2019s counterintelligence division, sent a text to his mistress, FBI attorney Lisa Page, on May 19, 2017 \u2013 just two days after the special counsel was appointed to investigate claims of President Donald Trump\u2019s collusion with Russia during the 2016 campaign. Strzok had led the investigation into Trump since July 2016, and had previously been involved in the probe of Hillary Clinton\u2019s use of a private email server.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;You and I both know the odds are nothing. If I thought it was likely, I\u2019d be there no question. I hesitate in part because of my gut sense and concern that there\u2019s no big there there,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Strzok texted Page, according to Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin), who read out the message on Tuesday during an interview with WISN-Milwaukee radio host Jay Weber.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Strozk text verbatim on joining the Mueller investigation: May 19th, 2017-  &#39;You and I both know the odds are nothing. If I thought it was likely, I&#39;d be there no question.  I hesitate in part because of my gut sense and concern that there&#39;s no big there there.&#39;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jay Weber (@JayWeber3) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JayWeber3\/status\/955804973996171264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 23, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sen Ron Johnson drops a bombshell on The Jay Weber Show<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheJayWeberShow?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TheJayWeberShow<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vcD0EqtqNy\">https:\/\/t.co\/vcD0EqtqNy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; News\/Talk 1130 WISN (@newstalk1130) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/newstalk1130\/status\/955810346702434306?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 23, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI think that\u2019s kind of jaw-dropping,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0said Johnson.\u00a0<em>\u201cIn other words, Peter Strzok, who was the FBI deputy assistant director of the counterintelligence division, the man who had a plan to do something because he just couldn\u2019t abide Donald Trump being president, is saying that his gut sense is that there\u2019s no big there there when it comes to the Mueller special counsel investigation.\u201d<\/em><span style=\"color: rgba(51, 71, 61, 0.5); font-family: Aleo, Skolar, ff-tisa-web-pro, Georgia, serif; font-style: italic;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Johnson chairs the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which has been looking into the\u00a0<em>\u201ccompletely unguarded\u201d<\/em>\u00a0texts between Strzok and Page. The two were quietly removed from Mueller\u2019s staff at some point last year after their texts to each other revealed a major conflict of interest.<\/p>\n<p>Among other things, Strzok and Page discussed an\u00a0<em>\u201cinsurance policy\u201d<\/em>\u00a0in case Trump won the election. On Tuesday, Representative Trey Gowdy (R-South Carolina) said that one of the texts he had seen even referenced a\u00a0<em>\u201csecret society\u201d<\/em>\u00a0at the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of text messages between Strzok and Page surfaced during a Justice Department inspector general investigation into the FBI probe of Hillary Clinton. Strzok was one of the lead investigators in that probe. The existence of the texts was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/411794-mueller-fbi-agent-investigation\/\">first reported<\/a>\u00a0in December, though Strzok had been reassigned from Mueller\u2019s team to the FBI\u2019s human resources department in August.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/416682-missing-texts-fbi-trump\/\">FBI admitted<\/a>\u00a0it had \u201cfailed to preserve\u201d the messages between Strzok and Page from December 14, 2016 to May 17, 2017 \u2013 \u00a0the day Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel to investigate Trump\u2019s alleged collusion with Russia. The FBI blamed the loss on\u00a0<em>\u201cmisconfiguration issues related to rollouts, provisioning, and software upgrades.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Even so, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the FBI investigators have found\u00a0<em>\u201cover 50,000 texts\u201d<\/em>\u00a0between Strzok and Page. According to Senator Johnson, the pair were\u00a0<em>\u201ccompletely unguarded\u201d<\/em>\u00a0in their communications.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSo we\u2019re getting insight into exactly what is happening inside the FBI at the highest levels. And who knows who else they might implicate in terms of corruption,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson has asked the Department Of Justice to produce messages from Strzok\u2019s and Page\u2019s personal iPhones and their Gmail accounts as well, as both were referenced in the text exchanges.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/416782-jaw-dropping-texts-johnson-fbi\/\">http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/416782-jaw-dropping-texts-johnson-fbi\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}