DOJ files response to Strzok's lawsuit: shows texts about wife finding his cell phone

Photo: AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta

Former FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok was fired from the agency and sued for unlawful termination. The photo [above] shows him testifying before a House Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, on July 12, 2018. The hearing concerned "oversight on FBI and Department of Justice actions regarding the 2016 presidential election.

In response to Strzok's frivolous lawsuit the DOJ filed a response which can be seen here. The motion contains a letter dated August 8, 2018 signed by Candace Will, the Assistant Director of the DOJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility.

Strzok was removed from Robert Mueller’s profligate Special Counsel investigation team after his covert extramarital affair with FBI lawyer Lisa Page and their anti-Trump text messages were discovered in the summer of 2017. The weird agent was then fired from the FBI in August 2018 and has since filed a lawsuit claiming that his “due process rights were infringed upon,” much like President Trump's due process rights are being infringed upon in the impeachment hearings.

In addition, his lawsuit claimed that the DOJ aimed to “humiliate him and smear his reputation when it disclosed nearly 400 text messages he had sent or received.” In truth, however, Strzok has done a fine job humiliating himself.

President Trump, never being one to shy away from a heartfelt Twitter attack, targeted Strzok at the time.

Strzok's lawyer claimed, “While many in law enforcement have faced attacks by this president, Pete Strzok has been a constant target for two years. It’s indisputable that his termination was a result of President Trump’s unrelenting retaliatory campaign of false information, attacks and direct appeals to top officials.”

See, it's okay to attack a duly elected president of the United States and try to throw him out of office, but once you go after a poor soul on Twitter, you've gone too far.

The DOJ’s motion argues that Strzok’s “allegation that his due process rights were infringed upon would be soundly rejected due to his position on FBI’s Senior Executive Service at the time of his firing” and said he’d been “given ample notice and opportunity to be heard.” They also stated that he was terminated because it infringed on the FBI's ability to be a trusted, nonpartisan institution and had nothing to do with Trump's tweets.

The 27-page document goes on to say that Strzok made numerous violations in text messages which were inappropriate political comments on his FBI-issued cell phone. He also used his personal email account [in Hillary Clinton style] to conduct FBI business and failed to diligently pursue a significant investigative lead in Hillary's email investigation.

In other words, Strzok's failure to act when informed in September 2016 that Hillary Clinton's emails were discovered on Anthony Weiner's laptop, was more than enough to get rid of Strzok.

The present DOJ filing contains new text exchanges between Strzok and Lisa Page involving his wife discovering their sordid affair after she gained access to the philanderer's phone. The wife also called Lisa Page from Strzok's cell phone and left several voicemails.

Strzok: “My wife has my phone.”

Page: “Your wife left me a VM. Am I supposed to respond? She thinks we’re having an affair. Should I call and correct her understanding? Leave this to you to address?” [It is clear that Strzok's wife's understanding needed no correcting. These two shameless cheaters were caught.]

Strzok: “I don’t know. I said we were close friends and nothing more. She knows I sent you flowers. I said you were having a tough week.”

As the saying goes: good riddance to bad rubbish.


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