Thread: Nunes Draws Up Contempt Citations After FBI Stonewall on Russia Investigator Demoted

Nunes Draws Up Contempt Citations After FBI Stonewall on Russia Investigator Demoted for Anti-Trump Texts


BY DEBRA HEINE
DECEMBER 3, 2017

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

In what appears to be an orchestrated leak, both the Washington Post and New York Times reported on Saturday that Special Counsel Robert Mueller removed an FBI agent from the Russia collusion investigation in July over anti-Trump text messages. And the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee is ready to slap contempt of Congress citations on Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray because they have been keeping that information from his committee since August.
Peter Strzok is considered one of the agency’s "most experienced and trusted counterintelligence investigators," according to the Times. Interestingly enough, he also played a critical role in the FBI's Hillary Clinton email investigation. He exchanged the anti-Trump text messages with Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer with whom Strzok was having an extramarital affair.

Is this starting to sound like a soap opera? It gets better.

The Post reported that Strzok and Page exchanged text messages that "expressed anti-Trump sentiments and other comments that appeared to favor Clinton."

Strzok's transfer to the FBI's human resources department in July was an obvious, eyebrow-raising demotion that attracted the attention of the House Intel chair.

Rep. Devin Nunes told the Washington Examiner that his committee has been trying to get that very information for months -- only to be stonewalled by the FBI.

Enraged, Nunes is now demanding that the FBI and Department of Justice explain why they refused to reveal the reason Mueller kicked a key supervising FBI agent off the Trump-Russia investigation, after being subpoenaed and repeatedly asked about it.

According to the Examiner's Byron York, "the committee had issued a subpoena that covered information about Strzok's demotion more than three months ago."

Word of the messages and the affair were news to Nunes, even though the committee had issued a subpoena that covered information about Strzok's demotion more than three months ago. The committee's broadly worded subpoena for information related to the so-called Trump dossier went to the FBI and DOJ on Aug. 24. In follow-up conversations on the scope of the subpoena, committee staff told the FBI and DOJ that it included information on the circumstances of Strzok's reassignment.
On Oct. 11, Nunes met with deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein. In that meeting, Nunes specifically discussed the committee's request for information about Strzok.
In an Oct. 31 committee staff meeting with the FBI, bureau officials refused a request for information about Strzok.
On Nov. 20, the committee again requested an interview with Strzok. (Three days earlier, on November 17, Strzok met with the Senate Intelligence Committee.)
On Nov. 29, Nunes again spoke to Rosenstein, and again discussed Strzok.
On Dec. 1, the committee again requested to speak with Strzok.

The FBI and DOJ blew Nunes off only to leak about the demotion to the Post andTimes on Dec. 2. In both papers, unnamed federal law enforcement officials explained why the feds were reluctant to share the information. The Post reported that "there is great concern that exposure of the texts they exchanged may be used by the president and his defenders to attack the credibility of the Mueller probe and the FBI more broadly," and the Times reported that "the existence of the text messages is likely to fuel claims by Mr. Trump that he is the target of a witch hunt."

If the shoe fits.

Some might say that the attempt to hide the text messages looks like an indication of consciousness of guilt on the part of Mueller and his team.

At any rate, Nunes is seeing red.

"By hiding from Congress, and from the American people, documented political bias by a key FBI head investigator for both the Russia collusion probe and the Clinton email investigation, the FBI and DOJ engaged in a willful attempt to thwart Congress' constitutional oversight responsibility," he said in a statement Saturday afternoon. "This is part of a months-long pattern by the DOJ and FBI of stonewalling and obstructing this committee's oversight work, particularly oversight of their use of the Steele dossier. At this point, these agencies should be investigating themselves."

Now Nunes says the DOJ -- after stonewalling for months -- is suddenly willing to meet some of the committee's demands for information.

"The DOJ has now expressed -- on a Saturday, just hours after the press reports on Strzok's dismissal appeared -- a sudden willingness to comply with some of the committee's long-standing demands," Nunes said in the statement. "This attempted 11th-hour accommodation is neither credible nor believable, and in fact is yet another example of the DOJ's disingenuousness and obstruction."

According to the Examiner, Nunes has "instructed committee staff to draw up a contempt of Congress citation for Rosenstein and for FBI Director Christopher Wray." The chairman has given the FBI and DOJ until the end of December to meet all the committee's outstanding demands -- or else he will take action on the citations.

https://pjmedia.com/trending/nunes-d...i-trump-texts/

He exchanged the anti-Trump text messages with Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer with whom Strzok was having an extramarital affair.

From August 2017
BUSTED: Father of Mueller Prosecutor Smeared @FLOTUS @MelaniaTrump As An ‘Escort’

AUG 23, 2017 by



STEVE PAGE, FATHER OF JUSTICE DEPARTMENT 2017 SPECIAL COUNSEL INVESTIGATION TEAM MEMBER LISA PAGE; FIRST LADY MELANIA TRUMP (SOURCES: SCREENSHOT, COMPANYMANUALS.COM; WIKIMEDIA COMMONS)

Steve Page, the father of an FBI Criminal Division lawyer on Robert Mueller’s anti-Trump deep-state attack team, Lisa Page, has been openly smearingFirst Lady Melania Trump as an “escort,” calling for her deportation, and goading CNN host Erin Burnett to keep “defaming” President Donald J. Trump, according to a review of his Twitter account.

Melanie Trump is an escort; kick her out of the country.
— Policy Expert (@stevebpage) January 30, 2017

@ErinBurnett God help us. Boycott Trump. Constantly hammer him on promises, taxes, and his stupid image. Show him as a toddler. Defame him
— Policy Expert (@stevebpage) January 22, 2017

First Lady Trump and her legal team have been fighting tooth-and-nail vulgar accusations like Lisa Page’s father’s. In April, First Lady Trump settled a libel suit against the Daily Mail and a Maryland blogger after both spread rumors that she had ever been an escort. The first lady got apologies and even a payout.

Steve says he’s retired, but he’s been reaching out to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow to try to reboot his career. Like too many members of mainstream media, a prominent reason he wants to be a reporter is to “continually bash” President Trump and write “whacky things” about him.

@maddow Love love your show. I would love to be a reporter so I can continually bash Trump for his lies, non-promises, and stupidness.
— Policy Expert (@stevebpage) December 21, 2016

@maddow You really need to hire me. I am the best researcher ever. I can help you write whacky things about our whacko president.
— Policy Expert (@stevebpage) February 1, 2017

Lisa’s father also thinks Comey should sue Trump for “harassment.”

@maddow Liar Trump on tapes. Rachel, please suggest to Comey to sue Trump for harassment as that was job harassment. i wrote policies on it
— Policy Expert (@stevebpage) June 22, 2017

In February, Steve wrote to a Hollywood elite actress he hoped she could take “some nasty revenge” on administration nominees.

@EmilyVanCamp I so agree with you. I wish you could take some nasty revenge on some of Trump's awful nominees.
— Policy Expert (@stevebpage) February 8, 2017

What kind of upbringing did Lisa have? Is this the kind of objective fact-finding we can expect from Lisa and her new boss Robert Mueller?

GotNews reported in June on Lisa’s mother, Tamara, and her dislike of the average supporter of the president. Tamara Page approved of a Politico article that said former FBI Directors Comey and Mueller had been “preparing their entire lives for this moment” when they “could bring down the president.” On Facebook, she liked Hillary Clinton posts.

Have Lisa’s parents and their extreme anti-Trump views affected her?

http://gotnews.com/busted-father-of-...-as-an-escort/

BUSTED: Top @TheJusticeDept Witch Hunter Lisa Page’s Mom Loves Calling @realDonaldTrump Supporters Bad Americans

JUN 27, 2017 by charles c. johnson


TAMARA PAGE, PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP, 2017 SPECIAL COUNSEL FOR THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE TEAM MEMBER LISA PAGE (SOURCES: SCREENSHOT, FACEBOOK; WIKIMEDIA COMMONS; SCREENSHOT, MORITZ COLLEGE OF LAW)

Tamara Page the mother of top Justice Department anti-Trump Russia witch-hunting team trial attorney Lisa Page has promoted the lie that the FBI and its now fired director James Comey were working to elect President Donald J. Trump, spread statements by Hillary Clinton that President Trump is a “demagogue who is unqualified and unsuited,” and loved hearing that Comey and DOJ team leader Robert Mueller could “bring down the president,” according to a review of Tamara’s Facebook activity.

The Mueller special counsel team has come under fire for their far-left wing roots, and Lisa’s mother’s actions supporting the hysterical Democrat narrative of Republican collusion with Russia call into question yet another team member’s personal commitment to a fair inquiry.

Tamara boosted a Dec. 19th video of Bill Maher from ATTN: where the HBO host says:

“Shouldn’t Comey and the FBI be checking Putin instead of working to elect Donald Trump? If you can’t get behind opposing that, you are not a patriot and you are certainly not a good American.”

TAMARA PAGE LIKING ATTN: BILL MAHER POST QUESTIONING PATRIOTISM OF PRESIDENT TRUMP SUPPORTERS (SOURCE: SCREENSHOT, FACEBOOK)

In fact, on June 8th, Comey revealed to the Senate Intelligence Committee that actually he had refused to blow the whistle after Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch attempted to suppress his investigation into Clinton for mishandling classified emails, for which of course Lynch never prosecuted her.

If Lisa decided to tell the many Democrat donors on the team Mueller appointed that Comey didn’t try to get Trump elected, would her mother still consider her a good American? Why should anyone trust these supposedly independent Beltway DOJ investigators?

After the LA Times endorsed Clinton, the mother of investigator Page promoted a Hillary Clinton Facebook post quoting the endorsement: “We can elect an experienced, thoughtful and deeply knowledgeable public servant or a thin-skinned demagogue who is unqualified and unsuited to be president.”


MOTHER OF TOP TRUMP INVESTIGATOR LISA PAGE SUPPORTING CLINTON CALLING PRESIDENT TRUMP AN UNSUITED DEMAGOGUE (SOURCE: SCREENSHOT, FACEBOOK)[/COLOR]

The mother of the deep-state attorney Lisa loved a May 20th Politico article praising Comey and Mueller with the lede, “The two men who could bring down the president have been preparing their entire lives for this moment.”



TAMARA PAGE LOVING A POLITICO ARTICLE BOASTING THAT THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT WITCH HUNT WOULD BRING DOWN THE PRESIDENT (SCREENSHOT, FACEBOOK)[/COLOR]

The Politico article, written by Garrett Graff, an ex-press secretary to later Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean, goes to no end to portray Mueller and Comey as fearless seekers of all things truthful—all while admitting the pair’s deep personal loyalties to each other:

[Mueller’s] rundown of the NFL headquarters’ procedures for receiving mail and packages alone runs to five pages [during Mueller’s NFL-Ray Rice investigation]—he almost surely learned things that the NFL’s own mailroom staff didn’t know about who signs for what packages when. That thoroughness and Mueller’s strong independence should terrify the Trump White House.[…]President Trump impulsively fired Comey in the hope that it would shut down the Russia investigation; one week later, though, [President Trump] finds himself facing not just one esteemed former FBI director but two: the first a wronged martyr for the bureau, and the second a legendary investigator without a hint of politics.

[…] [N]o one in government or in either party [during the controversy over the George W. Bush-era Presidential Surveillance Program] could question Mueller’s motives, politics or his dedication to the Constitution. While Mueller technically reported to Comey as deputy attorney general, Comey, two decades his junior, treated Mueller as a close friend and almost mentor. [Emphases added.]

http://gotnews.com/busted-top-fbi-witch-hunter-lisa-pages-mom-loves-calling-realdonaldtrump-supporters-bad-americans/