Conservative watchdog sues DOJ for text messages of ex-Muller team members Peter Strzok, Lisa Page
Diana Stancy Correll, Wash. Exam'r, Jan. 24, 2018
Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch announced on Wednesday that it filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Justice Department for text messages and other records related to Peter Strzok, a top FBI counterintelligence agent who was part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia inquiry team before being demoted after it was found that he exchanged text messages that were critical of President Trump with FBI attorney Lisa Page.
The Justice Department produced 384 pages of text messages that were sent between the two employees earlier this month, but the FBI said that text messages sent between Dec. 14, 2016 and May 17, 2017 were not preserved due to “misconfiguration issues.” The five-month period includes the presidential transition and the initiation of Mueller’s investigation.
But Judicial Watch doesn’t believe the text messages are unavailable.
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