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Alarmist GOP senator takes "secret society" email seriously

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Magical Realist Offline
LOL! What a dumbass...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/25/politics/...index.html

Washington (CNN)"The chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee acknowledged Thursday that a reference made between two FBI employees of a "secret society" could have been said in jest as opposed to evidence of an anti-Donald Trump plot.

"It's a real possibility," Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisconsin, told CNN.

Republicans have seized on the exchange between FBI lawyer Lisa Page and FBI agent Peter Strzok, which was sent after the 2016 presidential election, as potential evidence of an anti-Trump bias at the agency. Strzok was a member of the team investigating Hillary Clinton's email server and, later, a member of Robert Mueller's special counsel team looking into Russia's attempted interference in the 2016 election.

"Are you even going to give out your calendars? Seems kind of depressing. Maybe it should just be the first meeting of the secret society," Page wrote to Strzok in a text message.

Sources familiar with the exchange told CNN later Thursday that the message contains a reference to a gag gift of Vladimir Putin-themed calendars that one of the employees purchased for those working on the early stage of the Russia investigation.

Later Thursday, Johnson would not comment further about the "secret society" text and whether he owes an apology.

"We will see what the next texts say," he replied. The Justice Department's inspector general informed lawmakers Thursday that a trove of missing text messages exchanged between the two FBI employees has been recovered.

Johnson seized on the "secret society" reference to call into question the objectivity of Mueller's investigation earlier in the week. Speaking to Fox News on Tuesday, Johnson suggested bias and potential corruption at the upper echelons of the agency.
"What this is all about is further evidence of corruption -- more than bias -- but corruption at the highest levels of the FBI," Johnson said.

"And that secret society -- we have an informant talking about a group that were holding secret meetings off-site. There's so much smoke here, there's so much suspicion," Johnson said.

Johnson confirmed to CNN Wednesday he spoke to an informant who told him about the "off-site" meetings FBI managers were holding. But he acknowledged not knowing what the meetings were about, suggesting he wanted to dig into the matter."
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Magical Realist Offline
Actually we agree on this same point. Big difference there...
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Syne Offline
Who said you agreed on anything but this point, oh so defensive one?
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Magical Realist Offline
(Jan 26, 2018 01:15 AM)Syne Wrote: Who said you agreed on anything but this point, oh so defensive one?

So you agree it is just this point we agree on. Tks for confirming that.
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Syne Offline
(Jan 26, 2018 01:20 AM)Magical Realist Wrote:
(Jan 26, 2018 01:15 AM)Syne Wrote: Who said you agreed on anything but this point, oh so defensive one?

So you agree it is just this point we agree on. Tks for confirming that.

Yes, that would be the point of mentioning your were being overly defensive.
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