How the Clinton-Emails Investigation Intertwined with the Russia Probe
By Andrew C. McCarthy
May 23, 2018 2:04 PM
Obama administration officials in the DOJ and FBI saw the cases as inseparably linked.
‘Cruz just dropped out of the race. It’s going to be a Clinton Trump race. Unbelievable.â€
It was a little after midnight on May 4, 2016. FBI lawyer Lisa Page was texting her paramour, FBI counterespionage agent Peter Strzok, about the most stunning development to date in the 2016 campaign: Donald Trump was now the inevitable Republican nominee. He would square off against Hillary Clinton, the Democrats’ certain standard-bearer.
The race was set . . . between two major-party candidates who were both under investigation by the FBI.
In stunned response, Strzok wrote what may be the only words we need to know, the words that reflected the mindset of his agency’s leadership and of the Obama administration: “Now the pressure really starts to finish MYE.â€
MYE. That’s Mid-Year Exam, the code-word the FBI had given to the Hillary Clinton emails probe.
“It sure does,†responded Page. Mind you, she was not just any FBI lawyer; she was counsel and confidant to the bureau’s No. 2 official, Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.
If the thousands of text messages between Ms. Page and Agent Strzok are clear on anything, they are clear on the thinking of the bureau’s top brass.
In its Trump antipathy, the media-Democrat complex has admonished us to ignore the Strzok-Page texts. FBI officials are as entitled as anyone else to their political opinions, we’re told; and if they found Trump loathsome, they were no different from half the country.
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