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” He then quickly changed the subject to Hillary Clinton, John Podesta and Peter Strzok. [read post]
It portrays FBI Director James Comey as insubordinate to a hapless Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates; and it portrays FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page as scheming villains. [read post]
22 Jan 2021, 7:37 am by Jonathan Rauch
The (controversial) former FBI agent Peter Strzok, who participated in the counterintelligence investigation of Russia’s attempts to penetrate Trump’s 2016 campaign, has made the case that Trump was compromised in some way by the Russians. [read post]
29 May 2021, 6:41 am by Matt Gluck
Lawfare’s editor in chief Benjamin Wittes spoke with director and producer Celia Aniskovich—who produced the Spy Affair podcast about the FBI investigation of Butina—and former FBI agent Peter Strzok about who Butina really is, what motivated her activities in the U.S. and where she fits into Russia’s efforts to influence the 2016 election: Mariana Budjeryn argued that it would be unwise for Ukraine to violate the Budapest Memorandum and pursue nuclear… [read post]
25 Oct 2019, 9:13 am by Benjamin Wittes
Indeed, the more the president’s defense crumbles, the louder the noise gets: Republicans have gone after Peter Strzok. [read post]
9 Sep 2022, 10:52 am by Eugene Volokh
As a result of this "fraudulent evidence," the Federal Bureau of Investigations ("FBI") commenced "several large-scale investigations," which were "prolonged and exacerbated by the presence of a small faction of Clinton loyalists who were well-positioned within the Department of Justice"—Defendants James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Kevin Clinesmith, and Bruce Ohr. [read post]
2 Feb 2018, 2:05 pm by Lawfare Editors
The furor over the classified memo prepared by House intelligence committee Chairman Devin Nunes has reached a fever pitch now that the memo has been released. [read post]
23 Dec 2019, 1:19 pm by David Kris
Previously, of course, the inspector general was critical of political text messages exchanged between FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page, and the Crossfire Hurricane report goes out of its way to note this (id. at iii; see, e.g., id. at 9, 67). [read post]
24 Feb 2023, 5:25 am by Emma Snell
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29 Aug 2019, 3:29 pm by Benjamin Wittes
And Lisa Page, Peter Strzok and Jim Baker—along with some others—recommended that a few passages be classified at the Confidential level, the lowest level, because of diplomatic sensitivities. [read post]
30 Jul 2019, 9:09 am by David Priess
The nomination-by-tweet of Republican Representative John Ratcliffe of Texas as Director of National Intelligence to replace outgoing DNI Dan Coats has drawn rapid and harsh condemnation from many political observers and even former intelligence officers for his apparent partisanship and lack of experience. [read post]
24 Apr 2020, 11:55 am by Nathaniel Sobel
” Priestap and another FBI official, Peter Strzok, said that “the assessment [of Steele’s reports] involved determining the credibility of Steele, including understanding his record of furnishing reliable information, motivation, and possible biases; and verifying the information he provided through independent sources. [read post]
19 Dec 2018, 5:48 am by Quinta Jurecic, Benjamin Wittes
Yet they also argued that the FBI agents sent by then-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe had not warned Flynn of the criminal penalty for making false statements to law enforcement; suggested that McCabe had dissuaded Flynn from having a lawyer present; and hinted coyly that Mueller’s dismissal of FBI agent Peter Strzok, who interviewed Flynn, for the appearance of bias over anti-Trump texts should have some kind of bearing on the legitimacy of Flynn’s plea. [read post]
4 May 2019, 11:50 am by Jack Goldsmith
I’ve been in a cave for several weeks crashing to complete my new book, and am only now emerging to read Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report and the commentary on it. [read post]
After more than two weeks of mounting anticipation and hype, the memo on alleged surveillance abuses prepared by Rep. [read post]
The Democratic caucus in the House of Representatives suddenly seems to be careening toward impeachment. [read post]
30 Jul 2020, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
For the Symposium on Mark Tushnet, Taking Back the Constitution: Activist Judges and the Next Age of American Law (Yale University Press 2020).Aaron BelkinI was honored to be asked to review Mark Tushnet’s Taking Back the Constitution, a brilliant and well-written book that I enjoyed reading. [read post]
5 Mar 2021, 11:50 am by Tia Sewell, Benjamin Wittes
It was the most catastrophic intelligence failure since Sept. 11, 2001. [read post]
30 Jan 2018, 11:16 am by Jack Goldsmith
For over a year he has been investigating how DOJ and FBI handled the Clinton email investigation (including an analysis of the Peter Strzok and Lisa Page text messages, which he recovered after the FBI lost them), and possibly the circumstances, at least within DOJ, of Trump’s firing of Comey.) [read post]