1. January 3rd, 2017, seventeen days before Trump's inauguration and 2 days prior to the infamous Jan, 5 Oval office meeting between Obama, Comey Biden, Sally Yates, Susa Rice et al, Strzok tells Page he's concerned about sharing "tech cuts" from Flynn Kislyak call with Obama WH.
2. Strzok had just returned from conversation with his boss, then-FBI Assistant Director William Priestap, about evidence from the investigation of incoming National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, codenamed Crossfire Razor, or “CR”
3. Strzok tells Page about Priestap’s concerns that the evidence would be politically weaponized if outgoing Director of National Intelligence James Clapper shared the intercept cuts with the White House and President Obama.
4. "He, like us, is concerned with over sharing,” Strzok texts Page on Jan. 3, 2017, “Doesn’t want Clapper giving CR cuts to WH. All political, just shows our hand and potentially makes enemies.”
So the FBI knew this was a political charade.
FBI also knew Clapper's true colors.
5. "Yeah, but keep in mind we were going to put that in the doc on Friday, with potentially larger distribution than just the DNI,” Page texted back.
explaining that the FBI's initial assessment slated for release would have a much larger distribution list than just James Clapper
6. Strzok responded, “The question is should we, particularly to the entirety of the lame duck usic [U.S Intelligence Community] with partisan axes to grind"
Again Strzok was acutely aware and foreshadowed exactly what eventually ended up happening with startling accuracy
7. That same day Strzok and Page also text message a drama involving one of Obama's Presidential Daily Briefings (PDB)
"Did you follow the drama of the PDB last week?” Strzok asked.
"Yup. Don’t know how it ended though,” Page responded.
8. “They didn’t include any of it, and Bill [Priestap] didn’t want to dissent,” Strzok said.
“Wow, Bill [Preistap] should make sure [Deputy Director] Andy [McCabe] knows about that since he was consulted numerous times about whether to include the reporting,” Page suggested.
10. The real question is if this PDB drama Strzok and Page are talking about involved Flynn and the FBI's own internal assessment by early January 2017 showing the incoming national security adviser was neither a counterintelligence nor a criminal threat.
11. The timing of these text messages is quite remarkable when you consider that just a day later, on Jan 4, 2017, the FBI was in the process of closing crossfire razor, and Strzok told them not to because "the 7th floor was involved" https://twitter.com/rising_serpent/status/1260019550776520722?s=19
12. Recall that one of the most peculiar things about unmasking requests made by Obama administration was that there were no unmasking requests during the period when Flynn had the actual phone call with Kislyak
And it aligns perfectly with the PDB drama. https://twitter.com/rising_serpent/status/1261776713563934724?s=19
13. Lisa Page suggests that she's reading a Twitter filing for a meeting.
Why is she reading Twitter for a meeting? Who reads Twitter and calls it a "filing" before a meeting?
Also Page just got an account and it was verified in record time.
What account did she have in 2017 ?
14. Strzok texts Page twice the exact same message about checking her Gmail in the span of a minute. We know that they used Gmail to communicate, and did so regarding work-related stuff.
15. Page tells him that she wrote him back. Which means neither one of them was checking this specific Gmail account on a regular basis. They used it to communicate only to avoid a government emailed server.
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