by Katie Pavlich | Dec 13, 2018 | townhall.com
The Department of Justice Inspector a General released a report Thursday showing thousands of text messages sent by fired FBI agent Peter Strzok and former FBI attorney Lisa Page were not properly preserved and presented a “gap” in investigating their misconduct at the Bureau.
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"The Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General initiated this investigation upon being notified of a gap in text message data collection during the period December 15, 2016 through May 17, 2017, from Federal Bureau of Investigation mobile devices assigned to FBI employees Peter Strzok and Lisa Page relevant to a matter being investigated by the OIG's Oversight and Review Division. Specifically, the OIG's Cyber Investigations Office was asked to attempt recovery of these missing text message for the referenced period from FBI issued mobile devices issued to Strzok and Page," the report states.
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"In view of the content of many of the text messages between Strzok and Page, the OIG also asked the Special Counsel's Office to provide the OIG the DOJ issues iPhones that had been assigned to Strzok and Page during their respective assignments to the SCO."
After a number of steps by the OIG, "was the recovery of thousands of text messages within the period of the missing text messages, December 15, 2016 through May 17, 2017, as well as hundreds of other text messages outside the gap period that had not been produced by the FBI due to technical problems with its text message collection tool."
The time period in question in after the 2016 presidential election and up to the appointment of Robert Mueller's Special Counsel. Page worked on the Special Counsel investigation until July 2017 and used the same phone during that time period. The same goes for Strzok, who also worked for Mueller and had the same phone. When Page and Strzok left the Special Counsel, their phones were wiped by Special Counsel Records Officer. DOJ maintains this was simply standard procedure in order to give the device to another user.
Text messages prior to the election show Strzok and Page repeatedly discussing how to "stop" then candidate Trump from becoming President of the United States.
The OIG did not produce the content of the text messages in its report.
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"The OIG forensically recovered thousands of text messages from FBI mobile devices issued to Strzok and Page through its multiple extraction efforts. Approximately 9,311 text messages were recovered from Strzok's S5 [Samsung]," the report states.
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"Approximately 10,760 text messages were recovered from Page's S5."
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Also related see here: https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2018/i-2018-003523.pdf
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gogogogostop ago
How convenient. Now he can save his ass.
sweetholymosiah ago
key takeaway from the report to me is that the 'we'll stop it' text was found in the 'enterprise.db' file that was previously neglected by the investigation. It was a Samsung admin program that copied texts into their little database. Thank you south korea!
Banky1974 ago
Woohoo! Life just got a little worse for some very bad people.
themagarhino ago
OMG. 19,000 texts? Did they have time for anything else?
pwdwp ago
December 15, 2016 through May 17, 2017 = 16 months
16 months = approx 480 days
2 persons
19000/480 days = 40 text messages
40/2 persons = 20 text messages per day each
How many texts did people used to send?
Source: https://www.textrequest.com/blog/how-many-texts-people-send-per-day/
themagarhino ago
19000 * 30sec = 570,000 seconds = 9,500 minutes = 158.33 hours = Just shy of a whole week texting.
7 * 24 = 168 hours (1 Week)
No matter how you stack this that is a ton of thumb exercise. And we are only talking about only 19,000 lost text messages. Not the previously found ones.
Qd4Action ago
Check your math chief. That is 6 months, not 16 months. Grade: D-
Walk1 ago
They were trying to cover the trails of their crime and finally have been caught. Its time to put the Trump haters behind bars.
sn00tyfr00T ago
Assasination plot uncovered and about to be exposed? More likely these have been held back for the right moment to drop. Now seems good
SilverAlaskanWolf55 ago
For all we know it's Comey and McCabe texting as well as the Plot to take down POTUS included them All. We also know now that it was Lying Comey that was Lisa Page's Real lover and Not Strzok.
Stefanovich973 ago
Anyone know when the newly recovered "gap" (+ other) text messages themselves will be released?
Stefanovich973 ago
Or is this the formal report on what has been previously disclosed in the press and prior OIG report? Interesting either way.
letsgoallthewhey ago
"as well as hundreds of other text messages outside the gap period that had not been produced by the FBI due to technical problems with its text message collection tool."" - And we're supposed to believe that bullshit, too.
con77 ago
how could they possibly have done any work if they were texting that much?
SilverAlaskanWolf55 ago
I firmly Believe that within these text messages Lies the plot to Kill POTUS, that is why they were hastily deleted.
pwdwp ago
Also related: https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2018/i-2018-003523.pdf
pby1000 ago
Oops! Sorry, man. We just forgot about those.
brettco12 ago
oops. we are now accidentally putting you in prison for life plus a lil more. supersorry!
pwdwp ago
yes, libtards are having memory issues.
flatbush71 ago
Outstanding post OP. Unconventional tactics coming out of left field that are totally unanticipated. Now, look at the amount of resources that will have to be redirected just so they can "Cover their asses" on this. These people are badly needed in other areas, but critical need takes precedent. And in the mean time......... (smile)
DixiePatriot ago
I've always been amazed that they keep saying there was no bias.
Awhile back when they released the number of texts within a specific time frame I did the math. They would have been texting each other approximately 3-6 minutes during business hours. If you are texting that frequently, how is it not affecting your work? When do you have time to "think" any different way? It was consuming every minute of their day.
Kirbyrambo ago
is that 3 times every 6 minutes?
DixiePatriot ago
It's been awhile so I don't remember exactly. Thinking it was back and forth (text and reply) that frequently. I just remember thinking if I was texting someone that often I wouldn't be focused on my job.
Kirbyrambo ago
No doubt
the_Green_Chain ago
I felt the same way about Huma and Hi-LIAR-y's textings.
amarQ144 ago
At what point does it become mathematically impossible to send hundreds of texts a day and get any work done?
Fateswebb ago
It's an average of something like 13 a day. So not unrealistic.
amarQ144 ago
Keep in mind this was around 15 months ...added to all the texts they already had...30,000+...30,000/15/30=66.6666666666666667........ per day...every day...66, not 13...whats "realistic"?
Fateswebb ago
Yeah I was off, sorry.
So let's get a high average let's say
20 texts every 2 hours for 8 hours or 4 times a day.. 80 texts a day.
We will say on the low side 5 days a week that's 400 then x 4 1600 a month times 15 that's 24000 and then if you include the weekends as well, Add 9600, 33000 seems on the beginning an ossession level. Anything higher than that they were seriously obsessed.
Atomized_Individual ago
They're parasites on taxpayers
RealBlackberry ago
Most government agencies are.
DixiePatriot ago
And wouldn't it affect your work since that is all you would be doing?
joeythew ago
They were like 14 year old girls.
Patriot8 ago
Maybe that’s why they failed.
amarQ144 ago
Maybe their job description was ..."Text-er"...I really struggle to see how they could have possibility sent so many. I doubt I've sent that many in my life...and that's just the latest "found" batch...
sicntrd ago
Horowitz will be the key, hope he is testifying soon
Roughboy ago
Who the hell texts 19,000 times?
gogogogostop ago
Perverts and pedophiles.
TNLunatick ago
7th graders.
Kirbyrambo ago
Squirrely demonically possessed fucin rats
Kirbyrambo ago
Oh! And add worthless Federal Employees.
pwdwp ago
19000/365 = 52 text message a day. But since this is for both Strzok and Page we can think that this is possible.
Kirbyrambo ago
I thought they had several phones that were not FBI phones. Probably with higher volumes on them since they felt more free to use. It fucin discusses me that these are the type of people that made their way to the top of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. I have to puck!! Federal Government needs to be cleaned out top to bottom! Then State governments next on down the line.
Caveman_in_a_suit ago
From the OIG report: "To ensure the thoroughness of text message recovery efforts, OIG also consulted with the Department of Defense, conducted additional quality assurance steps and hired a Subject Matter Expert."
Blacksmith21 ago
Translation: "We have EVERYTHING" (NSA)