Peter Strzok’s Wrongful Termination Lawsuit Isn’t Off to a Great Start
The Biden Justice Department released fired FBI special agent Peter Strzok’s termination letter as part of its efforts to fight the fired special agent’s attempts to subpoena former President Donald Trump.
Strzok wants to depose Trump and FBI Director Christopher Wray, but the Biden Justice Department has been fighting that in court for months. He sued the FBI in 2019 for alleged wrongful termination, which followed the emergence of his anti-Trump texts.
DOJ Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brian Netter, along with other Justice Department officials, went to bat for the former president in a court appearance last week.
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Netter and the other officials told the court Thursday that former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and former FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich recently testified about the reasons behind Strzok’s August 2018 firing and that “each deposition reinforces the conclusion that both subpoenas should be quashed.”
The Justice Department released excerpts from the testimony of Rosenstein and Bowdich, who argued Strzok’s firing was justified and did not happen due to influence from Trump. The DOJ also went further, releasing the August 2018 letter explaining why Strzok was fired.
“I removed all the politics, pundits, commentary, and the media from reporting the decision point I must address. When I strip away all the ‘noise,’ I am left with the facts and the extremely damaging impact to our organization, which will take years to overcome,” Bowdich’s newly released letter to Strzok explained. “As Deputy Assistant Director you were supposed to be a leader who was beyond reproach and set an example not only for your direct subordinates, but others throughout the organization who watched and observed your behaviors and actions. You failed to do so repeatedly and put your own interests about [sic] the interests of the organization.”
Bowdich concluded: “Though it pains me to do so, it is for this reason that I am dismissing you from the rolls of the FBI.”
The Justice Department said Thursday that Bowdich recently further testified he did not discuss Strzok in any of the interactions he had with Trump and that he “never saw the president get involved in the termination of anyone beyond the politically-appointed director.” Trump fired former FBI Director James Comey in May 2017.
Bowdich also testified he “absolutely” did not recall Wray ever telling him about any meeting with Trump in which “the president pressed the director to fire Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.”
It comes after Strzok filed a civil lawsuit against Wray, then-Attorney General William Barr, and the bureau in August 2019, claiming he was wrongfully terminated in 2018 after the discovery of anti-Trump texts with former FBI lawyer Lisa Page, with whom he was romantically involved. He played a key role in opening the Crossfire Hurricane investigation in 2016 and interviewed retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn in January 2017.
Strzok claimed in his lawsuit that his firing was “the result of unrelenting pressure from President Trump and his political allies in Congress and the media.”
Trump celebrated Strzok’s firing in August 2018.
“Just fired Agent Strzok, formerly of the FBI, was in charge of the Crooked Hillary Clinton sham investigation,” Trump tweeted at the time.
Strzok came under heavy criticism after the revelation of thousands of highly political anti-Trump texts he’d sent with Page throughout 2016 and 2017.
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In one notable exchange in August 2016, Page asked Strzok, “[Trump is] not ever going to become president, right? Right?!”
“No. No he won’t,” Strzok replied. “We’ll stop it.”
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