As we’ve seen, where there’s smoke there’s usually fire when it comes to the way the FBI under Mr. Obama was going after Trump, his campaign, and his people
Senators: Strzok-Page Texts Suggest FBI Wanted to Develop Sources Within Trump Administration
Two top Republican senators are asking Attorney General William Barr to look into text messages between former FBI agent Peter Strzok and former FBI lawyer Lisa Page that suggest that shortly after the 2016 election, the FBI wanted to develop sources within the incoming Trump administration for surveillance purposes.
Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) wrote in a letter to Barr on Thursday:
[I]n the course of our oversight work we have reviewed certain text messages that may show potential attempts by the FBI to conduct surveillance of President-elect Trump’s transition team. In text messages exchanged between former FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok and former FBI Attorney Lisa Page, the two discussed the possibility of developing ‘potential relationships’ at a November 2016 FBI briefing for presidential transition team staff.
While discussing who should attend the briefing, Strzok texted Page on November 17, 2016: “If Katie’s husband is there, he can see if there are people we can develop for potential relationships.â€
Grassley and Johnson wrote that the nature of the communications and the precise purpose of any attempts to “develop relationships†with Trump or Pence transition team staff “are not immediately clear.â€
“Were these efforts done to gain better communication between the respective parties, or were the briefings used as intelligence gathering operations? Further, did any such surveillance activities continue beyond the inauguration, and in the event they did, were those activities subject to proper predication?
“Any improper FBI surveillance activities that were conducted before or after the 2016 election must be brought to light and properly addressed,†they wrote.
These are questions that need to be answered. We got the investigation into Trump and his campaign and Russia Russia Russia, which was a big fail for the Trump haters on the left and the #NeverTrumpers on the right. Now it is time to investigate just how parts of the Executive Office, as led by President Barack H. Obama, spied on a presidential candidate.
