FBI officials Lisa Page and James Baker resign

[dukkha]

wo FBI officials who have faced scrutiny in recent months resigned from the bureau on Friday, sources familiar with their departures have confirmed to CNN.
Lisa Page, who served as an FBI lawyer and close adviser to former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, voluntarily resigned Friday, a source close to Page told CNN.
Page came under increasing attack after her text messages with FBI special agent Peter Strzok criticizing President Donald Trump came to light last winter. She briefly served on special counsel Robert Mueller's team last summer before returning to her duties at the FBI.
The text messages between Strzok and her became fodder for the President and Republican lawmakers who leveled accusations that some members of the FBI working on the Russia probe are biased against Trump.

James A. Baker, the former general counsel for the FBI and one of former FBI Director James Comey's closest advisers, also resigned Friday, according to a source familiar with Baker's departure. A second source familiar with Baker's thinking said his departure was unrelated to Page's resignation and that hers came as a surprise to him. He left the FBI voluntarily, according to a person familiar with his departure.

Baker will be going to Lawfare, a national security blog affiliated with the Brookings Institution. He was tapped as the FBI's top lawyer in January 2014, but was reassigned from his post as general counsel elsewhere in the agency last year.

Comey said in a statement on Friday, "Jim Baker represents the best of the Department of Justice and the FBI. He has protected the country and the rule of law throughout his career and leaves an inspiring legacy of service. He is what we should all hope our kids become, a person of integrity."
Their departures were first reported by The New York Times.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/04/polit...ign/index.html

[dukkha]

getting out of Dodge City just before the IG report comes out.
IG's can't subpoena or prosecute, and can't touch former employees

[hvilleherb]

And what was Lisa Page known for?

Now congressional investigators have discovered a message sent the day after the election discussing a meeting of a “secret society” inside the FBI. As Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) explained to Fox News:


https://patriotpost.us/opinion/53655-secret-society

[dukkha]

“I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office — that there’s no way [Trump] gets elected — but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk,” Strzok wrote to Page in an Aug. 15, 2016 text referring to then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.

“It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40,” he added.

“OMG THIS IS F***ING TERRIFYING,” Page wrote to Strzok on Election Day, Nov. 8, 2016.

“F Trump,” Strzok wrote in another text.

The Justice Department’s office of the inspector general discovered the biased text messages as part of the watchdog’s investigation into the FBI’s handling of the Clinton email investigation.

Page and Strzok also worked closely on the Clinton probe.

As the FBI’s No. 2 counterintelligence official, Strzok oversaw the FBI’s investigation into possible Trump campaign collusion with the Russian government. On the Clinton email investigation, Strzok conducted interviews with Clinton and her top aides.

Both Strzok and Page also served on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, which began on May 17, 2017.

Page worked for several weeks on the Mueller team before returning to her position as one of McCabe’s counselors. Strzok worked on the Mueller investigation until July 28, 2017, when Michael Horowitz, the DOJ’s inspector general, notified Mueller of the scandalous text messages.

Page is also a central player in Horowitz’s investigation of McCabe. She is the FBI official who McCabe instructed to speak to The Wall Street Journal regarding an October 2016 article about the FBI’s handling of the Clinton email investigation. McCabe authorized Page to leak to The Journal “in a manner designed to advance his personal interests at the expense of Department leadership,” Horowitz determined.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired McCabe on March 16 based upon a recommendation from the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR).

Horowitz released a report on April 13 that alleged McCabe gave inaccurate and incomplete statements about his authorization of the media leaks. The report, which dinged McCabe for a “lack of candor,” said he initially denied to both the OPR and the inspector general that he authorized Page to speak with The Journal.

Horowitz is expected to release a report this month that will focus more heavily on Strzok and Page. Strzok was sent to the FBI’s human resources division after his removal from the Mueller team.

An attorney for Page did not respond to requests for comment about the resignation.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/05/04/lisa-page-resign-fbi/

[hvilleherb]

Lisa Page, queen of the Deep State.

[dukkha]

Lisa Page, queen of the Deep State.

she's right up there.
Strzok still works in Human Resources- he must be cooperating with Horowitz

[Mr.Badguy]

People leaving their positions must REALLY mean something is wrong...

[dukkha]

Comey said in a statement on Friday, "Jim Baker represents the best of the Department of Justice and the FBI. He has protected the country and the rule of law throughout his career and leaves an inspiring legacy of service. He is what we should all hope our kids become, a person of integrity."

atta boy.

[Bigdog]

People leaving their positions must REALLY mean something is wrong...

Well ... it is one of the leading known causes of ...

[dukkha]

People leaving their positions must REALLY mean something is wrong...

not by itself, but considering the entire 7th floor is now gone..

[Nordberg]

getting out of Dodge City just before the IG report comes out.
IG's can't subpoena or prosecute, and can't touch former employees

So the IG report will not be released now? or are you making shit up again.

[dukkha]

So the IG report will not be released now? or are you making shit up again.

dumb fuck. do some research and quit shitting out blandishments. It's due out this month.

[PostmodernProphet]

getting out of Dodge City just before the IG report comes out.
IG's can't subpoena or prosecute, and can't touch former employees

I think they waited until the DNC guaranteed them a pension.......

[Rune]

dumb fuck. do some research and quit shitting out blandishments. It's due out this month.

You calling ANY poster dumbfuck is the height of irony.
Stupid piece of shit.

[Stretch]

getting out of Dodge City just before the IG report comes out.
IG's can't subpoena or prosecute, and can't touch former employees

I think they're just through with their 'singing'. Now they're useless.