Explosive hearing today on Capitol Hill when former FBI Agent Peter Strozk was called to testify under oath before a joint hearing of the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees. Strozk claimed he had "no bias" in his work at the FBI, despite the huge volume of private messages he sent on his government phone to a co-worker and that he was only motivated by a "deep patriotism." Is that a new euphemism for the deep state?
House Republicans were not buying it. One after another they cited Strozk's texts and asked him to explain. Here are a few examples:
At one point Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) asks Strozk to read a few of these texts. Cue the video to the 2:40 mark:
In this exchange with Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) Strozk continues to deny bias was the reason for his removal from the Special Counsel team investigating Trump:
Things got heated when Trey Gowdy grilled Peter Strzok on his text message correspondence with Lisa Paige pic.twitter.com/m4jEBvZQzM
— The Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) July 12, 2018
There is some justification for this. The Mueller team is FILLED with Hillary loyalists and Trump haters. But none who have been so brazen as Strozk.
Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-TX) spoke for many when laid it out for Strozk.
REP. GOHMERT: "He is really good. He is lying. He knows we know he is lying, and he could probably pass a polygraph. I've talked to FBI agents around the country, you've embarrassed them, you've embarrassed yourself, and I can't help but wonder when I see you sitting there with your little smirk. How many times did you look so innocent into your wife's eye and lie to her?"Strozk was having an affair with FBI lawyer Lisa Page who shared the texts above on their government phones. If Strozk will lie to his wife, why should we believe him now?
Note Democrats in the video leaping to Strozk's defense. Also also suggesting he deserves a "purple heart" for his testimony. That smacks every wounded veteran in the face but it's what we have come to expect from this corrupt cabal.
We've only peeled back a few layers of this onion but the deeper we go the more corruption we find. Just when will we have a special prosecutor to put these criminals in jail where they belong?
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