2016 ELECTION/FBI/OBAMA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A text message between two FBI employees from September 2016 released by a Republican senator Wednesday [2-7-18] says that then-President Barack Obama ‘wants to know everything we’re doing.’
What exactly the text refers to isn’t specified in the exchange. Associates of the FBI employees said it refers to preparation to brief Mr. Obama about Russian interference in that year’s election. Sen. Ron Johnson (R., Wis.), who released the text Wednesday as part of a 25-page report, said it raises questions about meddling by Mr. Obama in the federal Hillary Clinton email investigation, which wasn’t an active probe at that time.
The report from Mr. Johnson, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, highlights previously cited texts between Peter Strzok, a former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent, and Lisa Page, a bureau lawyer with whom he was having an extramarital affair. Mr. Strzok supervised the investigation into Mrs. Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state and was to become the lead agent on special counsel Robert Mueller’s team investigating any ties between Trump associates and Russia… While The Wall Street Journal obtained many of the text messages between the two staffers last week, reporting that they showed no overall conspiracy against Mr. Trump, Republicans and the president himself have cited the messages as evidence that the Russian probe amounts to a wider plot to undermine him.”
-Del Quentin Wilber, “Text From 2016 Shows Obama’s Interest in FBI Employees’ Work,” The Wall Street Journal online, Feb. 7, 2018 06:44pm