Ex-FBI agent Peter Strzok sues agency over firing for anti-Trump texts
Reuters
Published:
August 6, 2019
Updated:
August 6, 2019 5:51 PM EDT
In this file photo taken on July 12, 2018, Deputy Assistant FBI Director Peter Strzok testifies on FBI and Department of Justice actions during the 2016 Presidential election during a House Joint committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.SAUL LOEB / AFP / Getty Images
Peter Strzok, the FBI agent who came under fire from U.S. President Donald Trump and other Republicans for sending text messages that disparaged Trump during the presidential campaign, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday alleging his termination from the job violated his constitutional rights.
The complaint, filed in federal court in Washington, alleged that Strzok’s termination from the intelligence agency last year was a “retaliatory response” to speech protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Strzok said in the lawsuit, filed against the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Justice Department, that he was entitled to backpay and reinstatement.
“It’s indisputable that his termination was a result of President Trump’s unrelenting retaliatory campaign of false information, attacks and direct appeals to top officials,” Aitan Goelman, a lawyer for Strzok, said in a statement.
“Today, Pete Strzok is fighting back, and sending a message that the Administration’s purposeful disregard for constitutional rights must not be tolerated,” Goelman added.
Strzok wrote politically charged texts to FBI lawyer Lisa Page when they were both working on the FBI’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Strzok and Page had also previously worked on the investigation into former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.
In one email from August 2016, Page wrote to Strzok asking “(Trump’s) not ever going to become president, right? Right!”
Strzok replied: “No. No he’s not. We’ll stop it.”
Strzok and Page, who were having an affair, became a focal point of efforts by Republican Party leaders to undermine the credibility of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
Trump has tweeted about Strzok several times in the last two years, calling him a “sick loser” and even accusing him of “treason.”
A 500-page report released in June by the U.S, Justice Department’s internal watchdog, was highly critical of Strzok and Page, finding their texts cast a cloud over the FBI and created the appearance of bias.
Goelman said at the time that the report, while flawed in some conclusions, found no evidence that his political views had an impact on the Clinton probe.
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There is NO END to the ENTITLEMENTS OF LIE-berals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LIE-berals have GRAPHICALLY AND REPEATEDLY DEMONSTRATED..................................
THEIR LOVE of restrictions on Free Speech...........................................
MASQUERADING as "Human Rights" concerns.......................................................
so we will not hurt LIE-beral feelings...........................................................
by pointing out AWKWARD TRUTHS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Washington Post notes in an article that “Trump and Xi lock horns and drag the rest of the world with them”!!
AS if Trump is somehow WRONG for defending democratic values in the face of Chinese AGGRESSION!!
RED CHINA seeks exactly the same “lebensraum” or “living space” as NAZI GERMANY DID!! And Red China is going about BUILDING ITS ECONOMIC EMPIRE in exactly the same way as the Nazis- with a combination of terror and bribery!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Red China SEEKS MORE of everything at the expense of others!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If either North Korea or Iran manage to obtain and then detonate some nuclear weapons then we can expect MASSIVE LIE-beral WHINING from the survivors!!
Always HYPOCRITE LIE-berals will whine that we pay our intelligence agents and our military LOTS OF MONEY so how could they have been asleep at the switch and let the DICTATORS WREAK HAVOC unopposed????????????????
And LIE-beral HYPOCRITES WILL NOT MENTION that they tied the hands of the military FOR DECADES and REFUSED ANY plan of action that would have minimized the threats we face from dictators and religious nutbars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LIE-berals are now angry with Ivanka Trump for commenting on the recent record gun violence in Chicago............and one is forced to ask: “just HOW ARROGANT AND BIGOTED ARE LIE-berals??
There have been innumerable books and movies detailing the HORRIBLE lives that dwellers in Yankee inner cities live...........and yet when Donald Trump or Ivanka Trump comment on that pain and sorrow......somehow the TRUMPS ARE GUILTY!!
LIE-berals demonstrate that their sense of ENTITLEMENT and their intention to “control the message” are so POWERFUL they feel entitled even to control and regulate expressions of sorrow made by people they do not like!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson says that “white supremacists are not a problem” and he is RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There have always been lunatic fringe nuts in any society!! The number of people willing to take up a gun and shoot at Latinos or Muslims etc is VERY SMALL!!
Rather- it is the ruthless and quite racist LIE-beral exploitation of the actions of a lunatic few that are the real problem- along with the TOTAL INABILITY of govt to keep guns out of the hands of certified LUNATICS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And it IS NOT HELPING that some politicians ARE BREAKING THE LAW in defense of Sanctuary Cities and even in defense of illegal CRIMINALS WHO HAVE BEEN CONVICTED OF CRIMES IN AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The biggest provocation that many Yankees see is that some politicians make a VERY NICE LIVING while demanding that THEIR LAWS BE RESPECTED absolutely - while at the same time they INSIST on their right to BREAK LAWS made by others who they do not like that is so enraging and polarizing all of North America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And of course if white culture was NOT superior - then there would NOT be millions of people from third world pest hole countries trying to sneak into white governed lands!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Donald Trump blames companies like Google for trying to sabotage his election in 2015 - by presenting biased views.
In related news - Google has just put a senior employee on “administrative leave” after the guy complained that Google was altering its search algorithms to edit out Conservative views!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In other news- Twitter CEO Mark Zuckerberg has accused Silicon Valley and assorted media of being “very left wing”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It has been alleged that Jared Kushner- the son in law of Donald Trump - saw a Trump presidency as a chance to “get out of debt” from a bad real estate deal!!
GOSH!!!!!!!!!!!
If we eliminated every LIE-beral politician and civil service union HOG that was only in the game for the GRAVY..................................
MOST OF THE GOVT WOULD DISAPPEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How insane is the LIE-beral view of the world?? Some of them insist that to deny “systemic racism exists” is to CONFIRM your racist status!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You MUST AGREE with all things LIE-beral or be a racist an white supremacist !
How WILDLY BIGOTED ARE LIE-berals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The LIE-beral concept of “Obstruction of justice” revolves around Trump simply refusing to surrender to LIE-beral Bigots!!
LIE-berals belive those who oppose them are “obstructing justice”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The LIE-beral concept of “justice” is of the sort and quality that can create and maintain a “Gulag Archipelago” full of Political prisoners!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In the aftermath of the Mueller testimony- even CNN admits that the odds of impeaching Trump “just fizzled”! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GOSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a SURPRISE that a total lack of convincing evidence would stymy a much longed for LIE-beral LYNCHING of a man they HATE - simply because he is exposing them as PHONIES AND HYPOCRITES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LIE-berals claim there is “systemic racism” preventing ethnic groups from being hired!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But LIE-berals DO NOT allow for the LESSER EDUCATION STANDARDS of various ethnic groups!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Trump says The Squad - the 4 congress women he has said should go back home - have come from “sh+thole countries”!!
So - WOULD ANYBODY VOLUNTEER to go live in Somalia????????????
There ARE a few people who would go live in Mexico- BUT ONLY if they retain a Cdn or Yankee standard of living!!
Nobody would volunteer to live in Mexico AS AN AVERAGE Mexican!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And nobody would immigrate to Puerto Rico to live as an ordinary person either!!!!
As for immigrating to Palestine - in ANY CAPACITY - the general view is you would have to be NUTS to go there!!!!
Trump is right- The Squad - with its hostility to ANY RESTRICTION on immigration to United States MUST BE REGARDED AS HOSTILE to the majority of Yankees!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AND they must be considered HOSTILE to most Cdns as well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
After all - Our idiot Boy Justin HAS NOT been able to hide the fact that most Cdns DISAPPROVE of COSTLY LIE-beral immigration policy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!