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Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Anti-Trump FBI Agent Wanted To Move Quickly To Bring Down Trump

by Daniel Greenfield: These entangled investigations require a lot of recapping. But by now I assume that most people are familiar with Peter Strzok and his texts. But here's a brief recap.
Peter Strzok, the lead investigator in the Clinton email scandal, was sending pro-Clinton and anti-Trump messages during his extramarital affair with a woman working for FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe. McCabe's wife had received a sizable amount of money from a Clinton ally. Strzok was on Mueller's team until he had to be removed because of his shenanigans. Strzok's investigation of Trump relied on the Steele dossier that was paid for by Hillary and handfed by at least one current Russian intelligence operative. That was the same dossier that figures in the FBI chose to fund despite its utter lack of credibility and its partisan origins in the Clinton campaign.

"I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy's office — that there's no way [Trump] gets elected — but I'm afraid we can't take that risk," FBI counterintelligence official Peter Strzok wrote in a cryptic text message to Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer and his mistress.

"It's like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you're 40," Strzok wrote in the text, dated Aug. 15, 2016.

Assuming Andy is Andrew McCabe, which is likely considering that Page worked for him, it suggests that Strzok, Page and McCabe had discussed some sort of plan to take down Trump.
Now here's the Wall Street Journal's anonymously sourced explanation.The text came after a meeting involving Ms. Page, Mr. Strzok and FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, according to people close to the pair and familiar with their version of events. At the meeting, Ms. Page suggested they could take their time investigating the alleged collusion because Mrs. Clinton was likely to win, the people said.

If they move more deliberately, she argued, they could reduce the risk of burning sensitive sources.

Mr. Strzok felt otherwise, according to these people.

His text was meant to convey his belief that the investigation couldn't afford to take a more measured approach because Mr. Trump could very well win the election, they said. It would be better to be aggressive and gather evidence quickly, he believed, because some of Mr. Trump's associates could land administration jobs and it was important to know if they had colluded with Russia.
The whole conversation stinks of partisanship.Page and Strzok were already heavily invested in Trump's defeat. And there they were framing the conduct of the investigation in terms of whether Trump would win or lose. This was an effort to try and exonerate Strzok and the investigation, but instead it sinks it further.
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Daniel Greenfield is Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and a New York writer focusing on radical Islam. David Horowitz is a Contributing Author of the ARRA News Service

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