ATTORNEY GENERAL/FBI/JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions pledged Monday [1-22-18] evening to fully investigate how the FBI failed to preserve five months of text messages between two high-level officials involved in the investigations of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
‘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,’ Mr. Sessions said in a statement released by the Justice Department.
The statement came a few days after the Justice Department disclosed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation, due to technical problems, wasn’t able to recover text messages from December 2016 through May 2017 between FBI Agent Peter Strzok and bureau lawyer Lisa Page.
Mr. Strzok and Ms. Page were engaged in a romantic relationship in 2015 and 2016 and exchanged thousands of texts over the course of nearly two years that were highly critical of various political figures, including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) and President Barack Obama’s first attorney general, Eric Holder…
Mr. Strzok supervised the investigation into Mrs. Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of state, and he was the lead agent on the initial investigation into whether associates of Mr. Trump had links to Russian interference in the 2016 election.”
-Del Quentin Wilber, “Sessions Vows Full Probe of Missing FBI Texts,” The Wall Street Journal online, Jan. 22, 2018 11:07pm