One of the prominent anti-Trump FBI agents who investigated “Russian interference” during the 2016 election has recently received a substantial payout from the Department of Justice.
In 2018, the FBI dismissed Peter Strzok after the Justice Department inspector general uncovered politically charged messages Strzok had exchanged with another FBI official.
Despite his lawsuit being deemed unlikely to succeed, the Biden administration opted to settle, awarding Strzok over a million dollars.
Politico reported on the details of the “settlement.”
The Justice Department has agreed to pay a total of $2 million to settle legal claims brought by former FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok and former FBI attorney Lisa Page over the DOJ’s release of text messages the pair exchanged.
The agreement ends a lawsuit Page brought, but does not fully resolve Strzok’s separate suit, allowing him to continue to press his claims that he was fired in order to please then-President Donald Trump.
On Friday, Strzok’s lawyers announced his $1.2 million agreement as attorneys for both sides notified a federal judge in Washington that the privacy-focused portion of that dispute was resolved.
[Lisa] Page, who resigned amid the controversy, settled her own Privacy Act claim with the department Friday. Copies of the settlement agreements for Strzok and Page obtained by POLITICO indicate Page is to receive $800,000. The documents state that the U.S. government is not admitting or conceding legal liability.
Vox wrote in 2018 that “a few months before the 2016 election, FBI agent Peter Strzok sent the phrase in a response to FBI attorney Lisa Page, who’d texted him worried Trump might win. “No. No he won’t. We’ll stop it,” Strzok reassured her. The two were having an affair at the time.
Strzok was in a position at the time to act on that promise. He was the deputy head of counterintelligence at the FBI, working on both the Trump-Russia probe and the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server.”
The inspector general claimed he did not have evidence that the FBI agent acted on his views. It just so happened that he appeared to act on his views.
The text Strzok sent to his lover, Lisa Page, also an FBI agent, on August 15, 2016, read, “I want to believe the path you threw out in Andy’s office — that there’s no way he gets elected — but I’m afraid we can’t take the risk. It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.”
After years of investigating “Russiagate,” labeled “Operation Crossfire Hurricane” by the Bureau, a major memo sent from the CIA to Strzok outlined proof showing that Hillary Clinton’s campaign “hatched a plan to frame Donald Trump.”
“In late July 2016, U.S. intelligence agencies obtained insight into Russian intelligence analysis alleging that U.S Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had approved a campaign plan to stir up a scandal against U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump by tying him to Putin and the Russians’ hacking of the Democratic National Committee,” The Daily Wire explained.
On September 7, 2016, the outlet continued, “the CIA wrote a ‘referral memo’ addressed to FBI director James Comey and to the attention of Deputy Assistant Director Strzok saying as much. The information was considered so important that then-CIA Director James Brennan immediately briefed President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and Comey about it in the Situation Room.”
Now Strzok is a millionaire, which does not sit right with many conservatives.
Biden administration launders $1.2M payment to Peter Strzok (and likely a similar payment to Lisa Page) through settlement of likely-doomed lawsuit. pic.twitter.com/rKHCNMaeGl
— (((tedfrank))) (@tedfrank) July 26, 2024
He might not be running for president anymore, but Joe Biden still appears to know how to take care of his “friends.”
This article originally appeared on New Conservative Post. Used with Permission.
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