Strzok-Page texts released in the Flynn case last week have a new clue. "Typhoon" is unredacted in this new batch. That's FBI's code for @GeorgePapa19.
Page tells Strzok on May 10, 2017, they need to "lock in" the case in a "formal chargeable way."
Timeline is interesting...
Because Papadopoulos was later charged for an interview he gave FBI several months earlier. So what was their plan to lock him in in a "chargeable way" after that text, and why would they need to?
Page was asked about the text in her House testimony. She said she couldn't remember who they were talking about (I'd always assumed it was Manafort).
She said she thought she might have been saying they needed to admonish the target with a 1001 warning against lying.
Except, according to the special counsel's statement of offense against Papadopoulos, the FBI had already admonished him in the Jan. 27, 2017 interview.
Since Page knew when she sent that text that she was talking about Papadopoulos, she seemingly would have known what went on in his first interview with FBI. So he was already "locked in" when she sent that text, unless she had another idea in mind.
Gowdy noted in Page's deposition that "chargeable" was a curious word to use. dougcollins.house.gov/sites/dougcoll…
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