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Strzok: Defended Affair, Said Mueller Never Questioned Him On Bias and Revealed A DOJ Deal With FBI

Investigators with the committee and lawmakers also questioned Strzok on the FBI’s decision to open the investigation into Clinton’s use of a private server to send classified emails at headquarters instead of the Washington Field Office.

“So why would this matter or this case have been opened up by FBI headquarters as the office of origin, for lack of a better term, and not opened up at the Washington field office,” the investigator asked Strzok.

The issue is important because GOP lawmakers have been trying to ascertain why the Clinton investigation was moved to the headquarters and run by a select group of people. For example, lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee attended a closed door briefing with FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe on Dec. 21, 2017. In the briefing bureau officials confirmed that the investigation was overseen by a small group in Washington headquarters rather the normal process of conducting the investigation at the field offices. For example, the Clinton email server in question was based in New York.

Clinton’s case was known as “a special” which is the FBI’s way of describing when a case is controlled by hierarchy.

Strzok is asked by investigators “we’ve entertained some questions and tried to figure out what the term means that has been associated with this particular investigation, a “special” a “headquarters special.” What is that designation as assigned to an investigation that the FBI is doing?”

Strzok says he thinks the term “special” is a statement that was used in previous, earlier bureau times.”

In describing the special, he said “that it was something where a task force would be created, my recollection is, that there was frequently with a special a particular costing and administrative process would be set up so that resources could be tracked and funded as part of supporting that special.”

Strzok said he didn’t know exactly who made the decision to move the Clinton investigation to Washington D.C. headquarters.

“I don’t know, because I was not present when it occurred,” said Strzok. “My understanding is that decision was made by senior executives at the FBI, certainly at and likely above (then) Assistant Director (Randy) Coleman’s level.”

Strzok’s then asked how common is it for an investigation to be moved to FBI headquarters.

“In the normal course of business, would a case have been opened up at the Washington Field Office as the office of origin,” the investigator asks.

Strzok admits that the “ordinary course of business is that cases are opened up out of field offices and run and supervised there.”

But says he’s “aware of circumstances where cases are opened and have been opened and run out of FBI headquarters.”

“It’s not the typical case, but this was not the first, in my experience,” he says.

Clinton Classified Emails

As for Clinton’s classified emails, Strzok is asked if the “spillage of potentially classified information, this is where that particular investigation or any potential criminal violations that went with that, that those matters would be investigated?”

Strzok said, “well, we don’t investigate spills of classified information. That’s typically an administrative process if followed. For any potentially criminal matters involving classified information that is typically within the arena of the Counterintelligence Division.”