FBI/GOP/HILLARY CLINTON/LEGAL/POLITICAL FIGURES: “The FBI is missing five months of text messages between two senior officials who Republicans on Capitol Hill have accused of political bias, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) revealed in a letter to the bureau made public on Sunday [1-21-18].
Republicans have been scrutinizing the text messages between senior counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page as part of their inquiry into whether bias infected the bureau’s investigations into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server as secretary of state and into President Donald Trump’s ties to Russia…
In his letter — delivered Saturday — Johnson said correspondence from the FBI a day earlier ascribed the missing text messages to ‘misconfiguration issues related to rollouts, provisioning, and software upgrades that conflicted with the FBI’s collection capabilities.’…
Johnson said the agency did turn over 384 pages of text messages last week between Strzok and Page. The Justice Department gave lawmakers about 375 texts in December. The pair has faced withering criticism from Republicans on Capitol Hill after the earlier round of text messages, unearthed by DOJ inspector general Michael Horowitz, revealed a series of anti-Trump exchanges, among criticism of politicians on both sides of the aisle… There’s been no public evidence that Strzok or Page acted on their dislike of Trump to influence any aspects of the investigation.”
-Kyle Cheney, “Senator: FBI missing months of texts between officials involved in Trump, Clinton probes,” Politico, Jan. 21, 2018 07:54pm