An FBI lawyer wrote in a text to her lover that then-president Barack Obama wanted updates on the Hillary Clinton email investigation that was happening in 2016. Lisa Page wrote to fellow FBI official Peter Strzok that she was working on a memo for then-FBI director James Comey because Obama “wants to know everything we’re doing.” The message was sent about two months before the presidential election. Five months prior, Obama had said during an interview that he could “guarantee” he wouldn’t interfere with the investigation.
“I do not talk to the attorney general about pending investigations. I do not talk to FBI directors about pending investigations. We have a strict line,’ he said on April 10, 2016, according to Daily Mail. “I guarantee it. I guarantee that there is no political influence in any investigation conducted by the Justice Department or the FBI, not just in this case but in any case. Full stop. Period.”
The text message was among more than 50,000 the pair sent each other during a two-year extramarital affair. The Republicans on the Senate Homeland Security Committee released the latest batch of emails, and plan on writing a report on the Clinton email scandal and the FBI investigation of it.
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