Former FBI Officials Who Exchanged Anti-Trump Texts Have Nearly Reached a Settlement Over Privacy Violations
Jose Nino
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Two ex-FBI officials tentatively reached a settlement with the Justice Department to sort our claims that their privacy was infringed on when the department leaked to the corporate media text messages that they had sent to each other that threw shade at former President Donald Trump.
The tentative deal was revealed in a brief court filing on May 28, 2024 that did not reveal any of the terms.
Peter Strzok, a veteran FBI counterintelligence agent who was a key figure in the bureau’s probe into potential links between Russia and Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, was fired in 2018 after the anti-Trump text messages surfaced.
They claimed in federal lawsuits filed in the District of Columbia that the Justice Department violated their privacy rights when officials, in December 2017, disseminated copies of their correspondence with reporters, which included messages that labeled Trump as an “idiot” and a ”loathsome human” and that describes the prospect of a Trump victory in 2016 as “terrifying.”
On top of that, Strzok filed a lawsuit against the agency over his firing, claiming that the FBI yielded to “unrelenting pressure” from Trump when it canned him and that his First Amendment rights were infringed on.
The court notice highlighted that the constitutional claims have not been resolved by the tentative settlement.
Trump praised Strzok’s firing and accused him of engaging in treasonous behavior. The FBi agent was questioned under oath in 2023 as part of a lengthy litigation process.
The Justice Department Inspector General’s office discovered the text messages as it reviewed the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while in the position of Secretary of State.
Strzok was also a lead agent in that investigation.He highlighted in his lawsuit that the inspector general discovered no evidence that political bias sullied the email investigation.
The entire Russiagate drama represented just another sign of the US’s republic status. When the FBI should have otherwise been focused on real crimes ranging from human trafficking to the illegal alien invasion at the border, it now uses its resources to persecute political figures it doesn’t like.
For the US to remain a nominally free polity, it must abolish organizations such as the FBI.
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