Text Messages Between Anti-Trump FBI Employees Reference A ‘Secret Society’

Oh look! More reasons to distrust the FBI!

It all started with Comey being an overall sketchball. Then we discovered anti-Trump messages between two FBI employees. THEN we found out that the FBI “failed to preserve” five months worth of those text messages.

They expect us to believe that was an accident.

“The Department wants to bring to your attention that the FBI’s technical system for retaining text messages sent and received on FBI mobile devices failed to preserve text messages for Mr. Strzok and Ms. Page,” Stephen Boyd, the assistant attorney general for legislative affairs at the Justice Department, wrote to Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, the chairman of HSGAC.

He said that texts are missing for the period between Dec. 14, 2016 and May 17, 2017.

Boyd attributed the failure to “misconfiguration issues related to rollouts, provisioning, and software upgrades that conflicted with the FBI’s collection capabilities.”

“The result was that data that should have been automatically collected and retained for long-term storage and retrieval was not collected,” Boyd wrote.

The “missing” texts fell in a very interesting time frame.

The missing messages from Strzok and Page span a crucial window, between the presidential transition and the launch of Robert Mueller’s Russia probe — where both officials previously were assigned.

Such a tragic “accident.”

Now, there’s this. We’re not just talking about a few dozen messages. We’re talking 50,000.

More than 50,000 texts were exchanged between two FBI officials who have come under fire for exchanging anti-Trump messages during the 2016 election, Attorney General Jeff Sessions revealed Monday.

The figure surfaced as lawmakers have been pressing for answers after revelations that the FBI “failed to preserve” five months of texts between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.

“We will leave no stone unturned to confirm with certainty why these text messages are not now available to be produced and will use every technology available to determine whether the missing messages are recoverable from another source,” Sessions said in a statement provided to Fox News. “If we are successful, we will update the congressional committees immediately.”

Oh. And that doesn’t include the messages they “lost.”

“After reviewing the voluminous records on the FBI’s servers, which included over 50,000 texts, the Inspector General discovered the FBI’s system failed to retain text messages for approximately 5 months between December 14, 2017 to May 17, 2017,” Sessions said.

Oh. By the way. Some of the messages reference a “secret society,” so that’s just dandy.

.@RepRatcliffe on 5-month gap discovered in new FBI texts: “For former prosecutors like @TGowdySC & myself…it makes it harder & harder for us to explain away one strange coincidence after another.” https://t.co/jTCsiBqaVi pic.twitter.com/yPKVEJoG91

— Fox News (@FoxNews) January 23, 2018

The thousands of texts @TGowdySC and I reviewed today revealed manifest bias among top FBI officials against @realDonaldTrump. The texts between Strzok and Page referenced a “secret society.”

— John Ratcliffe (@RepRatcliffe) January 23, 2018

“We learned today about information that in the immediate aftermath of his election, there may have been a ‘secret society’ of folks within the Department of Justice and the FBI, to include Page and Strzok, working against him. I’m not saying that actually happened, but when folks speak in those terms, they need to come forward to explain the context,” Rep. John Ratcliffe said.

Yep. This is reality. Still wanna call us all conspiracy theorists?

“You have this insurance policy in Spring 2016, and then the day after the election, what they really didn’t want to have happen, there is a text exchange between these two FBI agents, these supposed to be fact-centric FBI agents saying, ‘Perhaps this is the first meeting of the secret society.’ So I’m going to want to know what secret society you are talking about, because you’re supposed to be investigating objectively the person who just won the electoral college. So yeah — I’m going to want to know,” Rep. Trey Gowdy added.

“Secret Society”

Whatever it’s called, the coup against a sitting president cannot stand.#ReleaseAllTheDocuments #ReleasetheMemo https://t.co/MIQYM0xieN

— Washburn (@geowashburn) January 23, 2018

.@RepRatcliffe says that texts refer to a “secret society” working against @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/YTSAeSk9TJ

— GTS Watch (@GTS_Watch) January 23, 2018

Hello @Comey can you please explain the #SecretSociety please? This was happening in your FBI, on your watch, under your supervision. https://t.co/qn9cUPxEDS

— J Mazak says #ReleaseTheMemo (@Jmajkrzak) January 23, 2018

Oh Jesus. This is so so bad for the FBI. Deeply upsetting https://t.co/hhgKLALFqv

— Scott Ruesterholz (@Read_N_Learn) January 23, 2018

#ReleaseTheMemo – when I hear government deep staters talking secret societies, time to be worried. Government needs a “control-alt-delete” now https://t.co/rJWHhE33bT

— rob b. (@RobBar88) January 23, 2018

“The texts between Strzok and Page referenced a secret society”

— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) January 23, 2018

🚨 Text messages from anti-Trump FBI agents referenced a “SECRET SOCIETY” pic.twitter.com/jTf9pT4Mpe

— Ryan Saavedra 🇺🇸 (@RealSaavedra) January 23, 2018

HOLY SHIT A “SECRET SOCIETY.” This year is such a good movie. Bad plot line for real life though. https://t.co/9igBWV0lpD

— Cassandra Fairbanks (@CassandraRules) January 23, 2018

So, the nonpartisan civil servants at the FBI apparently have an anti-Trump “Secret Society.” https://t.co/QZzWe76lZ4

— Alex VanNess (@thealexvanness) January 23, 2018

This is insane. We need answers.