Page…new text and Page exposes Rosenstein for false statments to congress! FBI agent Peter Strzok’s text to FBI lawyer Lisa Page hours after FBI Director James Comey was fired that said they needed to “open the case we’ve been waiting on” now that FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was in charge was related to the Trump-Russia investigation, according to Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL).
“That text message was not unrelated to Russia,” Gaetz said in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News on Tuesday.
The evening right after Comey was fired on May 9, 2017, Strzok had texted Page, his then-paramour, at 8:14 p.m. with: “We need to open the case we’ve been waiting on now while Andy is acting.”
Page responded the next morning at 4:57 a.m., with: “We need to lock in [redacted]. In a formal, chargeable way. Soon.”
Strzok confirmed during his testimony on Thursday that “Andy” meant McCabe, but refused to confirm what “case” he was referring to, or who Page was talking about.
But Page, who testified behind closed doors on Friday and Monday was much more forthcoming about those texts, Gaetz said.
It’s my understanding from discussions with my colleagues that Rosenstein had indicated that it had nothing to do with Russia or the Trump campaign, that it was this unrelated matter,” he said.
“Strzok refused to answer what it was related to. And Lisa Page gave a testimony that was in direct conflict with what I understood to be Rosenstein’s explanation.”
Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) told Strzok during his open-testimony last week that if he and Page talked about opening an investigation based on who was then-FBI director, it would violate due process.
“Decisions about when and whether to open investigations and when and whether to charge people with crimes aren’t supposed to depend on who’s sitting in the director’s chair, or on political decisions, or on the political agendas of FBI agents and lawyers,” he said last week at a House Judiciary and Oversight & Government Reform Committees joint hearing.
“So if a Trump-hating FBI agent and a Trump-hating FBI lawyer who have talked about effing Trump, stopping Trump, impeaching Trump are, within hours of President Trump firing their boss, if they start talking about opening an investigation now that ‘Andy is acting,’ and that some person needs to be locked in in a ‘formal, chargeable way, soon’ — I know, as a former U.S. attorney … whoever is the subject of that case that was opened now that Andy is acting — and whoever you and Ms. Page talked about needing to be locked in soon in a formal chargeable way — well, they would have had their civil liberties violated.
“They would have been deprived of due process.”
At the time of those exchanges, Comey had just been fired, McCabe had become acting FBI director, and Special Counsel Robert Mueller had not yet been appointed.
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/07/19/gaetz-strzok-mccabe-fbi-russia/