Peter Strzok, the FBI agent whose anti-Trump text messages raised concerns that the Mueller investigation was tainted by political bias, is taking questions from Congress Thursday — and things have already gotten heated.
Strzok, a veteran counterintelligence agent, oversaw the probe into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server in 2016, and was also involved in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to interfere with the 2016 presidential election.
Last summer, the Justice Department found that Strzok had sent text messages critical of Trump to FBI attorney Lisa Page — with whom he was having an affair — during the 2016 presidential election. Trump and many of his conservative supporters interpreted this as evidence that Strzok was plotting to interfere with the election. Mueller removed Strzok from the Russia investigation, but that hasn’t stopped lawmakers from grilling Strzok about the texts at his hearing.
The wild Peter Strzok congressional hearing, explained
Peter Strzok testifies to House Oversight and Judiciary Committees Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesFor months, FBI agent Peter Strzok has had a starring role in President Donald Trump’s preferred narrative that the Russia investigation is a deep-state witch hunt that’s biased against him.
But on Thursday, Strzok testified for hours at a congressional hearing and gave his side of the story for the first time — and what a hearing it was. (Actually, as of press time it’s still going on, over nine hours after it started.)
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Republican attacks on FBI agent Peter Strzok turned shockingly personal on Thursday when Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) brought up the agent’s extramarital affair during a congressional hearing.
Strzok is a controversial figure: He’s the career FBI counterintelligence agent whom President Donald Trump says was at the center of a secret FBI plot to thwart his presidential ambitions and elect Hillary Clinton. He oversaw the probe into Clinton’s use of a private email server in 2016, and was also involved in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
Read Article >FBI agent Peter Strzok’s hearing has become a ridiculous circus
Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesFBI agent Peter Strzok’s testimony before Congress on Thursday collapsed into a full-on partisan circus, with Republican and Democratic members shouting at each other, House Judiciary Chair Bob Goodlatte threatening to hold Strzok in contempt, and Democrats staging an over-the-top political stunt.
Strzok is the career FBI counterintelligence agent whom President Donald Trump says was at the center of a secret FBI plot to thwart his presidential ambitions and elect Hillary Clinton.
Read Article >Read: FBI agent Peter Strzok’s opening statement before Congress
Deputy Assistant FBI Director Peter Strzok is sworn in before a joint committee hearing of the House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform committees on July 12, 2018 Getty ImagesPeter Strzok, the FBI agent President Donald Trump whom has accused of being at the center of a secret FBI conspiracy to influence the 2016 presidential election, is testifying before Congress on Thursday.
Strzok was an investigator working on special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. He also led the FBI’s investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private email server.
Read Article >How to watch FBI agent Peter Strzok’s testimony in front of Congress
FBI Agent Peter Strzok will testify in front of two House committees on July 12, 2018. Alex Wong/Getty ImagesPeter Strzok, the FBI agent President Donald Trump says was at the center of a secret FBI conspiracy to thwart Trump’s presidential ambitions and elect Hillary Clinton, will testify publicly for the first time on Thursday.
Strzok was an investigator on special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. He also led the FBI’s investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private email server.
Read Article >Controversial FBI agent Peter Strzok’s upcoming hearing, explained
Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty ImagesPeter Strzok, the FBI agent whose anti-Trump text messages raised concerns that the Mueller investigation was tainted by political bias, will testify before Congress on Thursday.
It has the potential to be an explosive hearing.
Read Article >The “we’ll stop it” text: the IG report’s most inflammatory finding, explained
The Washington Post/Getty ImagesThe most explosive revelation in the newly released inspector general’s report on the FBI and the 2016 election is just three words long: “We’ll stop it.”
A few months before the 2016 election, FBI agent Peter Strzok sent the phrase in a response to FBI attorney Lisa Page, who’d texted him worried Trump might win. “No. No he won’t. We’ll stop it,” Strzok reassured her. The two were having an affair at the time.
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