Carter Page hits out at ‘corrupt’ FBI and DOJ over new Peter Strzok and Lisa Page texts which appear to show coordinated leaks
New texts between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page talk about placing leaks in papers
Carter Page was placed under surveillance for months after FBI and DOJ efforts
Page called the organisations ‘corrupt’ and said he wanted the situation ‘fixed’
Republican Congressman Mark Meadows called the texts ‘coordinated leaks’
Meadows also accused the FBI and DOJ of deliberately trying to smear Trump
By GEORGE MARTIN
DAILYMAIL.COM
11 September 2018
Carter Page has hit out at the alleged ‘media leak strategy’ within the DOJ and FBI after documents released earlier this week suggested they may have run targeted smear campaigns.
Justice Department documents revealed more messages exchanged between former FBI agent Peter Strzok and former FBI attorney Lisa Page in which the pair congratulated one another on planting leaks in national newspapers.
Carter Page was placed under surveillance for months after the DOJ and the FBI convinced the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court he was acting as a Russian agent.
In an interview with Fox News on Tuesday, he described the situation as ‘ridiculous’ and ‘so corrupt’.
‘This is just a way of tearing down all the great things that President Trump is doing,’ Mr Page said of the leaks.
‘I want to fix this terrible thing that has happened to our country. But just on principle, it’s just so corrupt right now.’
‘The more information that comes out, it’s just going to show how ridiculous this thing actually is.’
Strzok and Page were reportedly having an affair and Strzok, a former investigator in the Robert Mueller probe and the Hillary Clinton investigation, was fired over the series of anti-Trump text messages on his FBI phone.
‘I had literally just gone to find this phone to tell you I want to talk to you about media leak strategy with DOJ before you go,’ Strzok texted Page on April 10, 2017, according to new documents from the Justice Department.
Two days after Strzok’s first message, he texted Page: ‘Well done, Page,’ before informing her that two negative articles about her ‘namesake’ were imminent.
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