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FBI Agent Peter Strzok Fired…Finally

It only took them months. The FBI finally fired anti-Trump-texting agent Peter Strzok. Deputy Director David Bowdich ordered the termination on Friday. But, as usual, the opposition is throwing a fit, claiming that his First Amendment right to free speech was at the core of the firing.

Strzok’s attorney, Aitan Goelman, said the action was directly opposite of what the disciplinary department had…

Matt Shuham at TPM: 

The FBI has fired agent Peter Strzok, the Washington Post first reported Monday.

FBI Deputy Director David L. Bowdich ordered Strzok’s firing on Friday, the paper said.

In a statement, Strzok’s lawyer Aitan Goelman said the firing was a “deeply troubling” departure from established precedent, and that “the decision to terminate was taken in response to political pressure, and to punish Special Agent Strzok for political speech protected by the First Amendment, not on a fair and independent examination of the facts.” (Read Goelman’s full statement below.)

Strzok’s anti-Trump text messages with ex-FBI lawyer Lisa Page — over which he was expelled from special counsel Robert Mueller’s team last year— have become the stuff of conspiratorial Republican hysteria, but there has been no evidence presented that the messages, or any anti-Trump sentiment Strzok held personally, ever affected his work at the bureau.

In June, Strzok was escorted from the FBI building as part of “ongoing internal proceedings,” Goelman said at the time. “Despite being put through a highly questionable process, Pete has complied with every FBI procedure,” Goelman said.

Strzok’s hearing before the House Oversight and Judiciary committees in July got heated and extremely personal.

FBI Now Admits It Could have Prevented Florida High School Shooting

The FBI Now Admits It Could’ve Prevented the Florida High School Shooting

By: Carey Wedler

Amid the fallout from the February 14 school shooting in Parkland, FL, that left 17 dead, the FBI and local law enforcement received widespread criticism for their inability to prevent the shooting despite multiple warning signs and opportunities. On Tuesday, the FBI admitted these failures to the House…

FBI says San Bernardino shooters not part of Islamic terrorist cell, contrary to media reports

The media portray San Bernardino shooters Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 29, as Muslim terrorists. We are told Farook had returned “radicalized” from a recent trip to Saudi Arabia, and that his wife Malik somehow managed to leave a message on the Facebook page of an ISIS group right before the couple shot 14 people to death and wounded 17 in a conference room of Inland Regional…

The face of the female San Bernardino shooter Tashfeen Malik

Ever since police identified the perpetrators of the San Bernardino mass shooting of Dec. 2, 2015, as a young Muslim couple named Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, the media and bloggers have tried to find pictures of the two. Farook, a 5-year employee at the Public Health Dept. of San Bernardino County government, reportedly had recently returned from a trip to Saudi Arabia…

San Bernardino massacre now probed as terror attack, says FBI

Report: Wife in Calif. shooting pledged allegiance to ISIS

December 04, 2015

Three days after a heavily armed Muslim couple who lived in a home investigators described as “an IED factory” burst into a Southern California office building and gunned down 14 people, the FBI acknowledged Friday that it is treating the case as an act of terrorism.

“We are investigating it as an act of terrorism, for…