Strzok-Page text messages gone

Text messages between fired FBI agent Peter "The Cheater" Strzok and former bureau lawyer Lisa Page that were sent from their time on the Mueller investigation, are gone because by the time their phones were recovered, they were reset for others' use, according to an inspector general.

The IG report also said the FBI still isn’t reliably collecting text messages of all their employees — despite the bad press the bureau has suffered from the paramours.

The report released by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz  details the efforts his team made attempting to recover the texts between the paramours who shared venomous anti-Trump messages during the course of the affair they were having.

Investigators have already disclosed many of the messages, including one in which Mr. Strzok promised they would “stop” Trump from winning the White House.

But there was a gap in the text messages,  which the inspector general labeled a “collection tool failure,” and the new report detailed investigators’ efforts to recover those messages directly from the Samsung Galaxy phones issued to Strzok and Page.

Although messages were recovered from some FBI phones, the inspector general said that wasn’t the case for Strzok's and Page's phones that were assigned to them during their time on the Mueller probe.

Ms. Page left the probe on July 15, 2017 and Strzok was kicked off the probe in late July, with his final day on August 11, 2017.

The loving couple returned the phones issued to them, and both phones were reset to factory settings and had no content from their use. This is standard procedure for the agency.

The FBI employee who was issued Strzok's phone said she didn't remember it having any substantive messages on it. Page's phone was not found for several months, and finally found this September. It had also been reset with no messages.

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