Fox News’ Sean Hannity said Wednesday night on
“Hannity” that the Justice Department has started recovering some of the
missing texts between FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, citing
DOJ sources.
Federal law enforcement officials had
notified congressional committees that a technical glitch affected
thousands of FBI cellphones between Dec. 14, 2016 and May 17, 2017. This
meant that 5 months’ worth of texts would be missing from Strzok and
Page, both of whom are under scrutiny after it was revealed that the
former members of special counsel Robert Mueller’s team exchanged
anti-Trump texts during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Hannity said sources at the DOJ told him they have
begun to recover some of the texts from that time period. Specific
content from those texts has not been released.The missing messages have caused problems for the Justice Department inspector general's office.
Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, have sent a letter to Inspector General Michael Horowitz noting that the IG's office said on Dec. 13 that it had all the messages between Strzok and Page between Nov. 30, 2016, and July 28, 2017.
Lawmakers later learned of the five-month gap.
The lawmakers said they wanted the IG's office to "reconcile" those two points.
The five-month stretch of missing messages covers a period of time that includes President Donald Trump's inauguration, the firings of National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and FBI Director James Comey and the standing-up of former FBI Director Mueller as special counsel to investigate alleged Trump campaign collusion with Russian officials during the 2016 election.
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