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EXCLUSIVE: Transcripts of Lisa Page’s Closed-Door Testimonies Provide New Revelations in Spygate Scandal theepochtimes.com/transcripts-of… via @epochtimes
Transcripts of two closed-door testimonies by Lisa Page, the former assistant general counsel at the FBI, have provided new insights into the actions of the FBI, DOJ, and others—including CIA Director @JohnBrennan—regarding their investigation into Donald Trump.
Other key points in Page’s testimony before Congress:
📍The FBI appears to have considered investigating President Trump for obstruction of justice both before and after FBI Director James Comey was fired.
📍The FBI appears to have considered investigating President Trump for obstruction of justice both before and after FBI Director James Comey was fired.
📍Page says the DOJ refused to pursue “gross-negligence” charges against Hillary Clinton over her use of a private email server to send classified information.
📍FBI agent Michael Gaeta, head of the Eurasian Crime Squad, who received the dossier from former MI6 spy Steele in July 2016 is referred to in the transcript as Steele’s handler..
📍The FBI maintained a previously unknown verification file for the Steele dossier. Congressional investigators did not previously know of its existence.
📍John Carlin, the head of the DOJ’s National Security Division, was kept abreast of the FBI’s investigative activities through contact with then-Deputy FBI Director McCabe.
📍Page worked directly for DOJ official Bruce Ohr for at least five years and had met his wife, Nellie, once.
📍The role of FBI Agent Jonathan Moffa and DOJ official George Toscas may have been greater than initially assumed.
One particularly interesting bit of information is that Page read the memos written by then-FBI Director James Comey almost in real time. As she stated in testimony, “I reviewed most of them within a day or on the same day that they were created.”
According to Page, others who were privy to Comey’s memos included four additional FBI officials, “Jim Rybicki, Mr. McCabe, Mr. Ghattas, maybe Mr. Bowdich.
Page Denies Bias, But Says FBI Focussed More on Trump Than Clinton
Page steadfastly maintained there was no bias present in either the Clinton-email investigation or the Trump-Russia investigation on the part of anyone within the FBI or the DOJ.
Page steadfastly maintained there was no bias present in either the Clinton-email investigation or the Trump-Russia investigation on the part of anyone within the FBI or the DOJ.
At the same time, Page repeatedly and openly admitted to placing a greater emphasis and weight on the Trump-Russia investigation than the Clinton-email investigation:
