mr40, to wrap the Strzok-Page missing texts, secret society within the FBI, conservative conspiracy theory, for you.
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Some January background
The growing conservative conspiracy theory about missing FBI texts, explained
President Trump just called it “one of the biggest stories in a long time.” But the real story isn’t what he thinks.
By Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp zack@vox.com Jan 23, 2018, 1:20pm EST
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The official explanation from the Justice Department is that there was a problem with Strzok and Page’s bureau-issued Samsung Galaxies — that “firmware upgrades” and other technical issues deleted records of texts sent from many phones across the bureau. But Trump and his allies didn’t buy it and have waged a furious campaign in the media to declare the missing texts as proof of an FBI conspiracy.
There is no evidence to support such a wild claim. Whether there actually was a software glitch is easily verifiable; according to a Monday statement from Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Inspector General’s office is already investigating the issue.
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What’s atypical about this conspiracy is that it’s being embraced by much of the conservative movement — up to and including the president of the United States.
So you get it? The word was a technical glitch was the all of that Strzok-Page limb of your conservative FBI conspiracy theory. So what happened? Fast forward two days to
Justice Dept. recovers missing texts from FBI officials
By KYLE CHENEY
01/25/2018 01:42 PM EST
The Justice Department’s inspector general informed Congress on Thursday that he had recovered missing text messages from two FBI officials whose communications have become the increasing focus of Republican lawmakers raising questions about anti-Trump bias in the bureau.
In a letter to lawmakers who had sought the texts, DOJ inspector general Michael Horowitz said his office used “forensic tools” to recover the messages from FBI devices. The FBI revealed to Congress earlier this week that five-months’ worth of messages between FBI attorney Lisa Page and senior counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok had been lost because of a technical “misconfiguration.” That issue affected “thousands” of phones within the FBI, officials indicated. https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/25/missing-fbi-texts-recovered-369448
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