It was considered by FBI officials for a special prosecutor to be appointed in order to oversee the probe into Hillary Clinton’s use of her private email server.
It became apparent from the texts exchanged between FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page that the former U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald was the top choice to be appointed to the probe.
“Thought of the perfect person FBI Director James Comey can bounce this off of?” Strzok wrote in a March 2016 text to Page. “Pat….You got to give me credit if we go with him….And delay briefing him on until I can get back and do it, Late next week or later.”
“We talked about him last night, not for this, but how great he is,” Page responded.
“I could work with him again…And damn we’d get sh-t DONE,” Strzok replied.
At meetings among top FBI officials it was discussed if a special prosecutor for the case should be named, but how seriously Fitzgerald was considered for the job remains unclear.
According to The Hill, former FBI Director James Comey tapped Fitzgerald to lead the probe into the identification of CIA agent Valerie Plame. The then-Chicago U.S. attorney ultimately charged Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff Lewis Libby with false statements and obstruction of justice.
Republican Senator Chuck Grassley in a letter Thursday asked FBI Director Christopher Wray if the FBI had ever requested from the Department of Justice to appoint a special prosecutor, and “If not, why not?”
The new information is a result of the questions raised by Republicans regarding whether there is a secret anti-Trump society in the FBI that was biased in Clinton’s investigation.
Meanwhile, Republican Senator Ron Johnson who first promoted the whole concept said that there is a “real possibility” that the text regarding the “secret society” was a joke.
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