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# Anti-Trump FBI Official Identified As Leaker To WSJ, WaPo Reporter

Newly released text messages between controversial anti-Trump FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page reveal several leaks of confidential information to Wall St. Journal reporter, Devlin Barrett, who is now with the Washington Post.

via Conservative Treehouse

Following the release of the timestamped texts by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, Conservative Treehouse compared the timing of the messages between the agents and tied them to several instances of Barrett breaking news or confirming rumors based on "sources" within the government.

Via the Conservative Treehouse:

> On October 28th, 2016 (as above), at the exact time the re-opening of the Clinton investigation hit the media news-cycle, Page and Strzok were texting. From the released messaging we see at 5:19pm Lisa Page is on the phone with “Devlin”:

> Page: 5:19pm “Still on the phone with Devlin. Mike’s phone is ON FIRE.”

> Strzok: 5:29pm “You might wanna tell Devlin he should turn on CNN, there’s news on.”

> Page: 5:30pm “He knows. He just got handed a note.”

> Strzok: 5:33pm “Ha. He asking about it now?”

> Page: 5:34pm “Yeah. It was pretty funny. Coming now.”

> At 5:36pm Devlin Barrett tweets:

​Sources, as in Lisa Page - who Barrett was just (or still) on the phone with.

> Looking back upon the released text messages, and comparing them to reporting by Devlin Barrett, another specific article jumps out.

> On October 23rd, 2016, Devlin Barrett reported on a scoop:

> “Scoop: McAuliffe PAC gave $467,500 to campaign of wife of senior FBI official who oversaw Clinton email probe” (link)

> (Tweet Link) and (Story Link)

> This October 23rd, 2016, “scoop” aligns with the internal text messaging discussion between Agent Peter Strzok and FBI Attorney Lisa Page who were discussing James Comey’s chief-of-staff James Rybicki recommending that FBI Asst. Director Andrew “Andy” McCabe should be recused from the Hillary Clinton investigation.

> From the messaging the recusal was discussed mid-through-late October 2016:

> > ### 00:52am …”if it’s a matter similar to those we’ve been talking about lately”…

The Conservative Treehouse then notes that Barrett left the Wall Street Journal and joined the Washington Post, where he wrote a cover story to explain away a bizarre text between Strzok and Page referencing then-candidate Hillary Clinton:

> "So look, you say we text on that phone when we talk about Hillary because it can't be traced" "You were just venting, [because] you feel bad that you’re gone so much but that can’t be helped right now."

In his WaPo piece, Barrett posits that the text was in reference to the extramarital affair the FBI agents were having with each other:

The WaPo article starts off:

> Two senior FBI officials who texted each other about President Trump and Hillary Clinton relied on work phones to try to hide their romance from a spouse and made the bureau’s probe of Clinton’s private email server their cover story for being in such close contact, according to people familiar with the matter. -WaPo

We now have what appears to be evidence of an FBI official leaking information to a WSJ / WaPo reporter, who subsequently tweeted and wrote articles defending Page and Strzok, while throwing FBI deputy director Andy McCabe under the bus.

Then again, as the Conservative Treehouse notes, former FBI Director James Comey was doing the same thing.

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Hikikomori Jan 26, 2018 7:43 AM Permalink

If you pay taxes, you are contributing to both of these people's salaries and benefits, today.

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bardot63 Hikikomori Jan 26, 2018 7:51 AM Permalink

Git two ropes. One to hang Stroke, one to lead Page from her stall to the concourse track at Churchill Downs.

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CuttingEdge bardot63 Jan 26, 2018 7:53 AM Permalink

May the farce be with you.

Has Peter Strzok reached peak stupidity yet with these texts? Or will there be more proof of absolute moronic imbecility?

I fear the latter.

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shitshitshit CuttingEdge Jan 26, 2018 7:56 AM Permalink

Pick any idiot

Give him any kind of power

You'll reproduce this situation

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spanish inquisition CuttingEdge Jan 26, 2018 7:57 AM Permalink

He was touted as one of the best agents we have....... I have no words....

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Crazy Or Not bardot63 Jan 26, 2018 7:57 AM Permalink

Agent: "Get me a burner phone, burner rental car, and a nailgun.."

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headcase bardot63 Jan 26, 2018 7:59 AM Permalink

You hit the nail on the head there. What a fucking horse face!

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JRobby Hikikomori Jan 26, 2018 7:53 AM Permalink

This is "the mechanism" laid bare.

Pick any "alphabet agency" or Alphabet, Inc.. It's all the same beast.

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ArkansasAngie Hikikomori Jan 26, 2018 7:56 AM Permalink

Well ... by golly ... it does appear that there is indeed a crime. Leaking.

I swear that a true law and order person would win any election in a landslide.

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NickyGall Jan 26, 2018 7:44 AM Permalink

Here is an article that looks at the level of trust that Americans have in their own news media:

https://viableopposition.blogspot.ca/2018/01/trust-in-american-news-med…

In this time of growing political polarization, we can also see that there is a significant divide when it comes to trust in what the media is telling us.

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CheapBastard Jan 26, 2018 7:44 AM Permalink

But Jake Fapper on Fake News CNN says there nothing to see at the fbi….the gossip is just another “Far right conspiracy theory.”

They’re all fine honest fellows…..

That's what MSM says.....

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MCDirtMigger CheapBastard Jan 26, 2018 7:56 AM Permalink

I believe, historically speaking, the proper phrasing is ‘vast right wing conspiracy”. Found on page 341 of the HR Clinton handbook on how to discredit those presenting evidence of your wrongdoing.

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Dratpmurt Jan 26, 2018 7:45 AM Permalink

Guess what retards, having political beliefs is not illegal, not even for the FBI.

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Cautiously Pes… Dratpmurt Jan 26, 2018 7:46 AM Permalink

Hey, don't be late for your school bus.

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DownWithYogaPants Cautiously Pes… Jan 26, 2018 7:54 AM Permalink

The very short bus

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pc_babe Dratpmurt Jan 26, 2018 7:53 AM Permalink

LIBTARDISM ...its truly is a mental disorder

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JRobby Dratpmurt Jan 26, 2018 7:56 AM Permalink

Abuse of position and power. Not a new story.

Absolute power corrupts (ok campers, all at once in unison and on key please!)

ABSOLUTELY !!!!!!

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Cautiously Pes… Jan 26, 2018 7:45 AM Permalink

Please make it stop....the stupid....it hurts!

Release the damned memo NOW!

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chubbar Jan 26, 2018 7:47 AM Permalink

Just a couple of assholes out breaking the law for their own satisfaction. I hope they are busy making arrangements for their kids, etc., so that when they go to the big house their affairs are in order. Lisa Page is sure racking up the criminal charges she'll be charged with. Why is she still employed again?

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CheapBastard Jan 26, 2018 7:47 AM Permalink

Trump should offer immunity to any fbi, crooked or otherwise, who comes forward and confesses.

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JRobby CheapBastard Jan 26, 2018 7:57 AM Permalink

Thus explaining the delay

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overmedicatedu… Jan 26, 2018 7:48 AM Permalink

oh so this was a cover up of an affair?? sure sure, they still have a Job at fbi and security clearance?? of course they do.

yrs ago my security clearance would have been pulled in a NY minute for less.

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sheikurbootie Jan 26, 2018 7:49 AM Permalink

Death sentence?

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DavidFL Jan 26, 2018 7:50 AM Permalink

Is our government full of stupid incompetents?? Apparently so!! These morons can't even be dishonest in a smart manner; and they are charged with "protecting" our liberties?

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lester1 Jan 26, 2018 7:51 AM Permalink

How the hell are these corrupt FBI agents still drawing a government paycheck??

Is the FBI/DOJ really that corrupt????

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DavidFL lester1 Jan 26, 2018 7:54 AM Permalink

Yes - they are

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eclectic syncretist Jan 26, 2018 7:55 AM Permalink

Wait! Let me get this straight. If Clinton, Comey, Strzok, or Page leak or misuse classified information, that is not a punishable crime. But if anyone else does it they go straight to jail. That's how equal liberty and justice for all works in the United States of America.

Thought so. Thanks Jeff Sessions for doing your part to turn the country into a shithole.

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lester1 eclectic syncretist Jan 26, 2018 8:00 AM Permalink

Thats why there's no trust in the corrupt FBI/DOJ.

I know if I was on a jury, I would say "not guilty" just to stick it to the corrupt DOJ !

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arby63 Jan 26, 2018 7:55 AM Permalink

Who has been fired yet? Anyone? Why not? Total abuse of everything right before our eyes and no one has been let go? This is virtually impossible.

Anyone hear anything about Strzok's wife?

Where's the memo!

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venturen Jan 26, 2018 8:01 AM Permalink

I guess the rule of law was so last century

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koaj Jan 26, 2018 8:01 AM Permalink

Padlock the building. Shut it all down

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