[DS] Just Made Their Move, Patriots Knew The Plan, Watch What Happens Next – Episode 2059

• Fired FBI agent Peter Strzok –  is now arguing that his politically charged anti-Trump text messages are protected under the First Amendment.
• This argument is so weak, considering his texts were mainly made on the bureau’s government issued phones, which require FBI agents to use them for  work purposes only.
• In his claim against the DOJ he argues that he didn’t leak his texts, instead it was the DOJ,  therefore he argues, his texts should be considered private speech. He then argues that he shouldn’t be held to a higher legal standard, using the 1968 Supreme Court case Pickering v. Board of Education. The Pickering case applied to public statements by government employees.
• First of all, Strzok played a central role both in the investigation into the Trump campaign and Hillary Clinton’s use of an unsecured server to send classified emails. His text messages were sent on his government issued phone, which is not his private phone but owned by the government.  Those text messages revealed exactly how biased the FBI agents conducting the investigation felt about their subject: President Trump.
• In fact, when his anti-Trump texts were first discovered by Inspector General Michael Horowitz, Strzok was removed in the summer of 2017, from then-Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel investigation. Mueller’s team felt his texts were biased enough to remove Strzok from the investigation and they were right to do so.
• Remember these texts messages sent, Strzok’s sent on his FBI issued unsecured cell phone to his then lover FBI Attorney Lisa Page.
• Strzok wasn’t fired because someone accidentally exposed text messages that had nothing to do with his performance on the job, he was fired because he lied and had extraordinary bias against a sitting president he despised. He lied to everyone, including his wife, who by chance discovered his affair with Page after seeing text messages on his phone.

Source: saracarter.com