New Strzok Text Messages Exposes FBI Interactions With The Media

A series of text messages revealed this week have generated debate about FBI contacts with the media regarding bombshell stories about the Trump-Russia probe.

The messages, which were exchanged between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, show the embattled former FBI officials discussing the FBI’s contacts with the press regarding stories related to the bureau’s collusion investigation. President Trump and his allies say that the messages show that the FBI planted stories that were damaging to the president and members of his campaign. Trump critics, as well as Strzok’s attorney, have pushed back on that assessment.

“The President and his enablers are once again peddling unfounded conspiracy theories to mislead the American People,” Aitan Goelman, an attorney for Strzok, said in a statement on Tuesday in response to a report that Strzok sent a text message referring to a “media leak strategy.”

The latest message, reported by Fox News contributor Sara Carter, shows Strzok, the former deputy chief of counterintelligence at the FBI, discussing interactions with The New York Times regarding a bombshell report about surveillance activity against...Read More HERE