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The full 'secret society' text between FBI agents: Was it meant in jest? - ABC News

posted onJanuary 26, 2018
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Article snippet: For the past 24 hours, a number of Republican lawmakers have been suggesting that a months-old text message between two presidential election. But ABC News has obtained a copy of the one message that Republicans appear to be citing, and it's unclear if the message's reference to a “secret society” may have been made in jest. "Are you even going to give out your calendars? Seems kind of depressing. Maybe it should just be the first meeting of the secret society," FBI lawyer Lisa Page wrote to senior FBI agent Peter Strzok, who was working on the FBI’s probe of Russian meddling in the presidential election and would later join Page for a brief period on Robert Mueller's team. That text stands alone in the series of messages obtained by ABC News – with no apparent tie to other messages sent before or after it. In another text message obtained by ABC News, sent the day after the presidential election in November 2016, Strzok told Page: "Omg I am so depressed." Those texts are among a large cache of messages handed over to House and Senate committees in the past two months. After recent news accounts reported that Strzok was axed from Mueller's team for sending potentially anti-Trump messages, lawmakers demanded to see the messages for themselves. On Friday, the Homeland Security Committee and other committees a new batch of more than 1,000 messages sent between Strzok and Page. The messages newly obtained by ABC News were in that set. Asked Wednes... Link to the full article to read more

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