Congressional Republicans long accused FBI agents of trumping up charges against political consultant Carter Page to validate a FISA warrant in order to find alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government. The following exchanges don’t help the FBI’s case.
Ben Shapiro, of the Daily Wire, reports:
We do know that Strzok is already suspected of political bias for solid reasons: Michael Horowitz, the Department of Justice Inspector General, stated in his report on the Hillary email investigation that Strzok’s politics had likely affected his decisionmaking about timing in the Hillary and Trump-Russia investigation. Here’s the report:
In assessing the decision to prioritize the Russia investigation over following up on the Midyear-related investigative lead discovered on the Weiner laptop, we were particularly concerned about text messages sent by Strzok and Page that potentially indicated or created the appearance that investigative decisions they made were impacted by bias or improper considerations. Most of the text messages raising such questions pertained to the Russia investigation, and the implication in some of these text messages, particularly Strzok’s August 8 text message (“we’ll stop” candidate Trump from being elected), was that Strzok might be willing to take official action to impact a presidential candidate’s electoral prospects. Under these circumstances, we did not have confidence that Strzok’s decision to prioritize the Russia investigation over following up on the Midyear-related investigative lead discovered on the Weiner laptop was free from bias.If Solomon’s reporting is correct, it looks like Strzok decided to prioritize the Trump investigation out of political bias, with the election looming; he may have even attempted to create a “pretext” for submitting a FISA warrant request on Carter Page in order to dig up material on the Trump campaign. If so, Republicans’ long-harbored suspicions about an Obama FBI out to get Trump isn’t so far-fetched after all.
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