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Re: [Pot Calls Kettle Black...] Leaking Liberal Loser Lisa Page Sues DOJ, FBI Over Leak Of Texts

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On 12/12/19 5:44 PM, Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:
> https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2019/12/10/lisa-page-sues-doj-fbi/
> 
> Lisa Page announce on Twitter today that she had sued the Department of
> Justice and the FBI for leaking her text messages to the media:
> 
> I sued the Department of Justice and FBI today.
> 
> I take little joy in having done so. But what they did in leaking my
> messages to the press was not only wrong, it was
> illegal.https://t.co/ecR58rmxlB
> 
> — Lisa Page (@NatSecLisa) December 10, 2019
> 
> According to the complaint, the agencies, “violated the Privacy Act by
> unlawfully disclosing agency records pertaining to Plaintiff—namely, a 90-
> page document reflecting 375 text messages between Plaintiff and another
> FBI employee—to a group of reporters.” The complaint describes the leak as
> “clandestine” saying DOJ summoned “beat reporters to the Department to
> review the messages at night, prohibiting the reporters from copying or
> removing the set of messages from the building, and instructing them not
> to reveal DOJ as the source.”
> 
> Though he’s not a target of the lawsuit, Page blames the leak on President
> Trump: “the officials who authorized the disclosure and their allies
> sought to use, and ultimately did use, the messages to promote the false
> narrative that Plaintiff and others at the FBI were biased against
> President Trump, had conspired to undermine him, and otherwise had engaged
> in allegedly criminal acts, including treason.” The complaint goes on to
> say that Trump has tweeted about Page at least 40 times since the leak.
> 
> Does Page have a case? I’m not an attorney but looking around it seems
> state courts have been attempting to deal with the issue of public and
> private records on cell phones for several years. In general, texts on a
> government phone are considered public records if they have anything to do
> with someone’s job. But messages on a private phone can also be deemed
> public records if they were work related. This is why the State Department
> eventually asked Hillary to turn over despite the fact they were
> maintained on a private server in her basement.
> 
> Given that the texts Page is suing over were made on a government phone
> and involved her communicating with someone else inside the FBI, those
> messages would seem to be government records unless the individual texts
> were exclusively personal in nature.
> 
> What Page does have going for her is the OIG determination that there was
> no clear indication of partisan bias in the Clinton email investigation.
> So when she texted Strzok, “[Trump is] not ever going to become president,
> right? Right?!” and he responded, “No. No he won’t. We’ll stop it,” she
> can argue that was a private conversation, not one about work.
> 
> That’s not to say that Strzok and Page weren’t biased on that there’s no
> proof that bias was “work related” in the sense that it impacted their
> decisions. Of course the IG did say in his previous report that Strzok
> appeared to sit on the Clinton email investigation in the final weeks of
> the election. Ironically, that decision may have set in motion events that
> helped Trump win the election. But Page will argue the texts show a
> personal bias that means they weren’t public records. Again, I’m not an
> attorney but that seems to be the gist of where this is going. We’ll have
> to wait and see if the court buys her argument.
> 
> Earlier this month, Page told the Daily Beast she decided to fight back
> after what she described as President Trump acting out an orgasm at one of
> his rallies in October. “It had been so hard not to defend myself, to let
> people who hate me control the narrative. I decided to take my power
> back,” she said.
> 
> 
> 
All that money in a PRISON commissary account.  She will be popular in 
Prison.

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[Pot Calls Kettle Black...] Leaking Liberal Loser Lisa Page Sues DOJ, FBI Over Leak Of Texts "Leroy N. Soetoro" <leroysoetoro@barackobama.com> - 2019-12-12 22:44 +0000
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