Review: Peter Strzok is one of the most notorious FBI officials in history. As much as he and his publisher may want his book to be about Trump or the counterintelligence business, it clearly can't avoid being about him.
And so on. Investigators recovered 9,311 messages from Strzok's phone and 10,760 from Page's.
Strzok was at the center of a number of white-hot cases over his career and would have had ample material for a book even before his path crossed with that of Donald J. Trump. Strzok, though, has always maintained that the answer is, in fact, yes — and he cites subsequent investigations which he says defended his work and that of others in the FBI's Hillary Clinton and Russia investigations.
That and other secret evidence put the U.S. intelligence community onto the hunt, which led in myriad directions amid the discovery of that year's wave of"active measures" directed at the election to help Trump. The special counsel also made clear that he wasn't absolving Trump of wrongdoing, and Strzok writes that counterintelligence cases seldom yield the kind of solid evidence that prosecutors require in order to go before a jury.
Papadopoulos lied to investigators about his contacts with the Russians and served a brief prison sentence., albeit with questions unanswered about his intentions and full awareness. Officials conducted surveillance on Page for a time but never charged him — a subplot that Trump and critics have hammered into an attack on the whole Russian investigation.
For those with a solid background in the Clinton email and Russia imbroglios, Strzok's account obviously is essential. He describes how he perceived very quickly, for example, that the nature of any alleged criminal transgressions in Clinton's email case made it very unlikely that the Justice Department would prosecute her.
Mueller and Strzok both become subject to intense political attacks and, in Strzok's case, strangers begin coming by his house and harassing his family. Meanwhile the FBI exiles him, a career operator and counterintelligence specialist, to its human resources department.
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