“It’s a very damning indictment on Peter Strzok,” said Representative Mark Meadows, Republican of North Carolina and a close ally of the president’s. Strzok as a way to advance their political agenda, “the truth about Special Agent Strzok’s character and professionalism is found in the fact that every witness asked by” the inspector general’s office “said that Strzok’s work was never influenced by political views.”īut those politicians kept at it. Goelman said that while pundits and politicians had used Mr. Strzok may have had political bias was “critically flawed” and “bizarre.” Strzok’s lawyer, Aitan Goelman, said that Mr. Horowitz wrote, “was that Strzok might be willing to take official action to impact a presidential candidate’s electoral prospects.” “The implication in some of these text messages,” Mr. The report said that many of the texts that expressed political views were related to the investigation of Mr. Clinton’s email account during the election. The texts were included in the report by the Justice Department’s inspector general into how the F.B.I. Strzok had been the lead agent on the inquiry into Hillary Clinton’s email account.
became infected with politics and continuously disregarded rules and procedures to the detriment of Donald Trump and benefit of Hillary Clinton,” said Representative Darrell Issa, Republican of California.Īlong with overseeing the Trump investigation, Mr.
Trump’s allies seized on the texts to further their contention that a “Deep State” embedded in the federal government had started the investigation into links between the president’s campaign and Russia to take him down. Horowitz, said that the texts raise significant questions about the F.B.I.’s credibility during a politically delicate investigation, but he said that he found no evidence that the agents’ political views affected the inquiry. The Justice Department inspector general, Michael E.
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