When it comes to integrity and capability in law enforcement, the FBI is supposed to sit at the top of the list. Its agents are expected to be loyal, faithful, and incredibly well-trained.
However, its personnel are human. So there is no getting to 100{75726800c12fe2ebed14402fd98444a61f7eda42751f92330bc58faf20bd8821} perfection when it comes to integrity. That political interests might corrupt a couple of agents and related investigations is just a fact of life. So we are not entirely shocked by the strange story of text messages between agents. Messages related to potential investigations of Hillary Clinton, as well as text messages that mocked now-President Trump.
It is telling that half of the text messages between these two agents were supposedly “lost” during the Obama administration. Now that President Trump is in the White House, the Department of Justice has “found” these messages.
That is all just too convenient to be a coincidence. One must entertain the possibility that someone was trying to hide something while Mr. Obama was president. And that would be no surprise.
“On Thursday, Fox News reported that the Department of Justice has recovered missing text messages between FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, who both were against the election of Donald Trump to the presidency.
“Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz wrote a letter confirming that the texts had been found to Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA); both men had expressed interest in finding them. Horowitz wrote that the DOJ ‘succeeded in using forensic tools to recover text messages from FBI devices, including text messages between Mr. Strzok and Ms. Page that were sent or received between December 14, 2016 and May 17, 2017.'”
The fact is that the FBI has stunning abilities to recover data that was supposedly erased, lost, or destroyed. In fact, it is reported that it can retrieve data from hard-drives that were wiped clean by specialized software. That the Obama administration couldn’t find these text messages was never believable.
“The DOJ had previously announced that there were missing records between December 14, 2016, and May 17, 2017. Over 50,000 texts were exchanged between Strzok and Page, as Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced on Monday.”
That is quite a number of texts during a six month period. If we didn’t know better, we’d think Strzok and Page were middle-school students.
In any event, the text messages have turned up after all. But not without a bit of humor. Note the reason given for why they went missing:
“On Wednesday, federal law enforcement officials told Fox News that the supposed glitch preventing the missing messages from being loaded into the FBI’s archive system had also affected thousands of FBI cellphones.”
Sure, it was all just a “glitch.” They take us for fools.
If it was a “glitch,” it was likely a very selective and intelligent one. A glitch that only affected data that might reveal unpleasant details about Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama.
While we’re not buying the glitch story, it does look like the Department of Justice is back under competent and trustworthy leadership.
Now we wait to learn what was in some of those 50,000 text messages that were hiding somewhere until Mr. Obama vacated the White House.
Source: Daily Wire
