By Steve Neavling
Ticklethewire.com
The FBI has fired Peter Strzok for sending anti-Trump text messages to his lover during the presidential campaign.
Strzok attorney Aitan Goelman confirmed FBI Deputy Director David L. Bowditch ordered the termination Friday, overruling an internal disciplinary review that had recommended Strzok be demoted and suspended for 60 days.
“The decision to fire Special Agent Strzok is not only a departure from typical Bureau practice, but also contradicts Director Wray’s testimony to Congress and his assurances that the FBI intended to follow its regular process in this and all personnel matters,” Goelman said, according to Politico.
The FBI declined numerous news agencies’ requests for a comment.
Strzok, a 22-year veteran of the bureau, was among the lead investigators of Russian interference during the 2016 election until the anti-Trump text messages were discovered by a Justice Department inspector general.
Special counsel Robert Mueller immediately removed Strzok from the team investigating Russia.
The politically charged texts were amplified by the president and his supporters as evidence that the investigation into Trump and his campaign was biased.
The texts were sent to an FBI lawyer, Lisa Page, who also was part of Mueller’s team.
Page and Strzok were having an affair, and Trump called the pair “FBI lovers.”
