Goodlatte subpoenas Peter Strzok to testify before Judiciary, Oversight committees next week
by Diana Stancy Correll
| June 22, 2018 07:10 PM
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Peter Strzok, a top FBI agent who came under fire after it was revealed he sent anti-Trump text messages, was subpoenaed by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., to appear before the Judiciary and Oversight committees on June 27 for a deposition.
Although Strzok’s lawyer said on Sunday that his client was willing to appear before members of Congress, Goodlatte warned a subpoena would be issued in the near future.
"He has now indicated that he would come voluntarily, but he has not pinned himself down on when. So we are imminently going to issue a subpoena for him to appear next week," Goodlatte said in an interview on Fox News earlier this week.
Strzok was a leading official in the FBI’s investigation on Hillary Clinton’s private email server. The appearance before panels is part of the committees' investigation into the Justice Department’s actions in 2016.
It was also revealed last year that Strzok and fellow FBI agent Lisa Page, who both worked on special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, had an affair and exchanged text messages critical of Trump. Strzok was removed from the Mueller investigation last year and Page resigned from her post in 2018.
Inspector General Michael Horowitz said in a letter to Congress — prior to the release of his report that detailed misconduct of how the FBI managed its Clinton probe — that the texts between Strzok and Page negatively impacted the FBI’s standing by signaling there was bias within the agency, but Horowitz ultimately determined that the scandal didn’t impact Mueller’s probe.
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