Trump target Lisa Page sues DOJ, FBI for 'unwanted invasion of privacy'

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Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page has sued her old employers on Tuesday, charging they unlawfully released inflammatory text messages between her and FBI agent Peter Strzok in order to redirect Republican anger from top officials at the US Justice Dept.

In papers filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., Page suggests she was intentionally made a scapegoat for Trump's anger at the Russia investigation to the benefit of then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

"Disclosure of the text messages before Rosenstein’s hearing would serve multiple goals: it would protect the Deputy Attorney General from criticism during his testimony; it would show that the Department was addressing matters of concern to the President; and it would dominate coverage of the hearing, which otherwise could be unfavorable for the Department," the suit says, with the only cost being Page's and Strzok's privacy.

"Reporters were admitted to the building to view the text messages after close of business," the suit says, adding that subterfuge was designed to make it look like the messages were leaked by members of Congress and not the DOJ. Two separate inspector general reports found that Page's opinions about the president hadn't had an impact on her work at the FBI, but the DOJ's"unlawful conduct" had already turned Page into"a subject of frequent attacks by the President of the United States, as well as his allies and supporters. In the two years since the December 12 disclosure, the President has targeted Ms.

 

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Your texts with a married man were written on government/work phones.

U get them girl. All these Officials Scared of the Orange Man.

I hope you win the case

Nobody made her push the send button, Texts are public record, Sorry dear

Who knew having an affair, committing alienation of affection crime, & then being a victim of your employer who told you not to date anyways.

And we pay again!!! Tax dollars!! What a pathetic mess!!!

Government phone

Good for her.

Bless her adulterous heart

But it was legal for Schiff to release call information on Nunes, Solomon and Giuliani. She doesn't have a pray in hell.

“Trump target” geez...... your bias grows every day.

Wasn’t she using a government phone?

Work issued phone. Maybe just maybe don't have an affair and use your work phone. 🤷🤣😂

perhaps she shouldn't have been using an FBI supplied phone to do her home wrecking...

I wish she would sue realDonaldTrump for all the awful things he has said about her and the damage he is doing to her reputation.

Telling the truth about this woman just isn't fair. Boo efing hoo.

She should also sue Mueller for deleting all her texts

Tell us NBC how her and her boyfriend conspired to try to overthrow an elected candidate for president

cnn

You go girl!

Good luck with that ho

The people of America should sue her for putting us all through this impeachment crap.

Law Stuff 101: Never, ever put anything in writing that you wouldn't want falling into the wrong hands.

Attorney General Bill Barr, told NBC: 'From a civil liberties standpoint, the greatest danger to our free system is that the incumbent government used the apparatus of the state ...to spy on political opponents, to affect the outcome of the election.

Was it her private phone or one provided by the institution?

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