Claim: Page and Strzok Referenced FBI 'Secret Society' that Met the Day After the

By Debra Heine January 22, 2018

There is serious talk on Capitol Hill about the appointment of a second special counsel amid several new bombshell revelations swirling around the Trump/Russia probe. [color="Red"][color="Black"]First, there are the allegations of shocking and substantial government surveillance abuses under President Obama outlined in the FISA abuse memo. [color="Red"][color="Black"]Secondly,the FBI lost five months of key text messages between the anti-Trump/pro-Clinton FBI officials Peter Strzok and his mistress Lisa Page. And [color="Red"]now there's talk of a "secret society" of officials within the FBI that apparently met the day after the election of Donald J. Trump to plot against the president-elect.

Top Republicans now believe there may be real grounds for a second special counsel, Fox News reported Monday evening.

[color="Red"]New Strzok/Page Texts Suggest Lynch Knew About Clinton Exoneration Well Before Comey Announcement

Reps. Devin Nunes (R-CA), Trey Gowdy (R-SC), and Bob Goodlatte (R- VA) met on Saturday to discuss the FISA memo and the text messages. On Monday, the trio put out the following statement:...

...According to Fox News, Nunes, Gowdy and Goodlatte are in the process of going through the steps necessary to release the four-page FISA memo and intend to see it released to the public by early February.

[color="Navy"]The FBI has demanded to see a copy of the memo, but so far -- understandably -- the Intelligence Committee has declined to show them their hand. Republicans believe that publishing the memo will but pressure on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to appoint a second special counsel, Fox News reported.

Reps Gowdy and Ratcliffe (R-TX) were on Fox News' "The Story with Martha MacCallum" Monday night to talk about the latest developments.

Rep. Ratcliffe said that former FBI director James Comey needs to come back to Capitol Hill to testify again under oath on the question of when the decision to exonerate former secretary of State Hillary Clinton was made. The latest batch of text messages between Strzok and Page suggests that Comey was coordinating with Attorney General Lynch on the decision well ahead of his July 5 press conference.

"[color="Red"]It's really clear to me that the decision was made in May of 2016 -- two months before the press conference," Gowdy said. "[color="Red"]Of course Loretta Lynch knew he wasn't going to be charged. Everyone except the public knew that she was not going to be charged."

"[color="Red"]We knew that Strzok and Page had an intense anti-Trump bias and that's okay so long as they check it at the door and do their job," Ratcliffe said. "But we learned today in the thousands of text messages that we reviewed that perhaps they may not have done that."

Ratcliffe went on to mention one particular text message that referenced a "secret society" at the Bureau. "[color="Red"]We know about this insurance policy that was referenced in trying to prevent Donald Trump from becoming president," he began. "[color="Red"]We learned today about information in the immediate aftermath of his election that there may have been a 'secret society' of folks within the Department of Justice and the FBI to include Page and Strzok that would be working against him."...

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