Thread: Peter Strzok fired from the FBI

Peter Strzok fired from the FBI

By Maegan Vazquez, CNN
Updated 11:50 AM ET, Mon August 13, 2018

Washington (CNN)The FBI has fired Peter Strzok, an agent who was removed from the Russia probe last year for sending text messages disparaging President Donald Trump, Strzok's lawyer said Monday.

Aitan Goelman, Strzok's attorney, said FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich ordered the agent's termination on Friday. Goelman said that the deputy director's decision comes after the head of the office that normally handles disciplinary actions decided Strzok should instead face a demotion and 60-day suspension.

"The decision to fire Special Agent Strzok is not only a departure from typical Bureau practice, but also contradicts (FBI) Director (Christopher) Wray's testimony to Congress and his assurances that the FBI intended to follow its regular process in this and all personnel matters," Goelman said in his statement.

Special counsel Robert Mueller removed Strzok from his team investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election last summer after an internal investigation first revealed texts with former FBI lawyer Lisa Page, with whom Strzok had an extramarital affair, that could be read as exhibiting political bias.

Strzok played a lead role in the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server and was involved in the FBI's recommendation that no criminal charges be filed against the former secretary of state. He later helped oversee the beginnings of the probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, and his involvement in both investigations has been seized on by Republicans as evidence of anti-Trump bias in the bureau and those investigating potential coordination between the Trump campaign and Moscow.

A Justice Department inspector general's report released in June was harshly critical of Strzok, asserting he and Page "cast a cloud" over the FBI's actions.

Strzok also faced off against Republicans during a 10-hour congressional hearing regarding the text messages in June.

"At no time in any of these texts did those personal beliefs ever enter into the realm of any action I took," Strzok said during his testimony. "The suggestion that I'm in some dark chamber somewhere in the FBI would somehow cast aside all of these procedures, all of these safeguards, and somehow be able to do this is astounding to me -- it simply couldn't happen."

Strzok's firing was earlier reported by The Washington Post.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/13/polit...fbi/index.html

FIRED AND I HOPE NO PENSION OR GOVERNMENT BENEFITS!

Amen. People shouldn't use their position in an important agency like the FBI for their own political views.

Originally Posted by Beezer

FIRED AND I HOPE NO PENSION OR GOVERNMENT BENEFITS!

I was just watching the world news. I think they said something like a 60 day suspension and a demoted position when he comes back. Don't quote me on that, because I was busy doing other stuff while the news was on, but it was something along those lines. But he definitely will not be in the position of power that he was in before.

And speaking of fired and no pension, I think they mentioned another FBI agent who was fired by the Trump administration, in the past, 2 days before he was eligible for his pension. Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!! I'm sorry, but I had to laugh. That's what happens when you try to destroy someone's life, just because you don't like that person. It's called karma.

Originally Posted by 6 Million Dollar Man

I was just watching the world news. I think they said something like a 60 day suspension and a demoted position when he comes back. Don't quote me on that, because I was busy doing other stuff while the news was on, but it was something along those lines. But he definitely will not be in the position of power that he was in before.

And speaking of fired and no pension, I think they mentioned another FBI agent who was fired by the Trump administration, in the past, 2 days before he was eligible for his pension. Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!! I'm sorry, but I had to laugh. That's what happens when you try to destroy someone's life, just because you don't like that person. It's called karma.

Strzok was fired, which was a stronger action than what some internal review guidelines would have normally called for which was what you heard on the news, a 60 day suspension and a demotion, but Wray decided to fire him instead.

Read somewhere that he has a GoFundMe page or whatever it's called that netted $325,000 in the first day.

Support for FBI Veteran Pete Strzok


$395,027 of $500,000 goal



Raised by 10,263 people in 2 days

https://www.gofundme.com/peterstrzok

Originally Posted by MW

Read somewhere that he has a GoFundMe page or whatever it's called that netted $325,000 in the first day.

America roots for, and finances, crooks. The future of America!