Newly released text messages between FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page reveal President Obama wanted updates on the bureau’s Hillary Clinton email investigation.
Newly revealed text messages between FBI paramours Peter Strzok and Lisa Page include an exchange about preparing talking points for then-FBI Director James Comey to give to President Obama, who wanted “to know everything we’re doing.”
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The message, from Page to Strzok, was among thousands of texts between the lovers reviewed by Fox News. The pair both worked at one point for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.Page wrote to Strzok on Sept. 2, 2016 about prepping Comey because “potus wants to know everything we’re doing.” Senate investigators told Fox News this text raises questions about Obama’s personal involvement in the Clinton email investigation.
The text messages also reveal the FBI agents likely used untraceable phones to communicate about Hillary Clinton.
“We text on that phone when we talk about Hillary so it can’t be traced,” Strzok texted to Page.
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This is a fun text exchange from Page & Strozk
“We text on that phone when we talk about Hillary so it can’t be traced.”
I’d like to know where that phone is they are talking about. Guessing so would congress. pic.twitter.com/o3dz2rSrwc
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) February 7, 2018
Fox News contributor Sara A. Carter previously reported text messages exchanged between Strzok and Page revealed discussions about purchasing Apple iPhones to bypass “government collection,” systems. During one of their exchanges, Strzok told Page, “If I want to copy/take classified, I’m sure as hell not going to do it on this phone.”
