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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1042998)	12/13/2017 6:04:08 PM
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Justice Dept leaked 10K pages of Strzok texts over years to Fox News. The Trump administration is outraged at leaks ... NOT! The Justice Department invited a group of reporters to its offices on Tuesday night to view private text messages sent during the 2016 campaign by Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, former investigators on the special counsel Robert Mueller's team, Business Insider has learned. President Donald Trump's allies have seized on the texts, which were critical of Trump, describing them as evidence that Mueller's investigation into Russia's interference in last year's election, including whether members of Trump's campaign colluded with Moscow, has been tainted. ............. "It's appalling behavior by the department," said Matthew Miller, a former DOJ spokesman. "This is an ongoing investigation in which these employees have due-process rights, and the political leadership at DOJ has thrown them to the wolves so Rosenstein can get credit from House Republicans at his hearing today." One source close to the process who requested anonymity to discuss internal DOJ deliberations said the texts were given to reporters in case they did not leak in time for Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's public hearing on Wednesday morning. ........... A Fox reporter tweeted on Tuesday, however, that Fox had obtained 10,000 texts — far more than the 375 the DOJ turned over to lawmakers. ,,,,,,,,,,,,, Former FBI agents who spoke to Business Insider last week emphasized that the nature of FBI investigations makes it impossible for one employee to exert outsize influence over others. "It would be literally impossible for one human being to have the power to change or manipulate evidence or intelligence according to their own political preferences," said Mark Rossini, a former FBI unit chief who spent 17 years at the bureau. "FBI agents, like anyone else, are human beings," he added. "We are allowed to have our political beliefs. If anything, the overwhelming majority of agents are conservative Republicans." Rangappa echoed that sentiment. "The FBI investigators who are working on any given day will probably be mostly politically conservative," Rangappa said, drawing from her interactions with agents under President George W. Bush. That is one reason, she said, Republicans should "think carefully" about the precedent they're setting in pointing to agents' political leanings as evidence of a tainted investigation. businessinsider.com This is the Justice Department conspiring with the White House to actively undermine an investigation into the President of the United States.