Strzok to Testify Before Congress Without Immunity

The FBI agent that was removed from the Mueller probe because of exchanging anti-Trump text messages with his co-worker is scheduled to testify before Congress.

According to The Washington Post, Peter Strzok’s attorney Aitan Goelman said on Sunday that his client agreed to appear before the House Judiciary Committee, and other Congressional committees, without immunity.

Goelman also said that Strzok will not use his Fifth Amendment rights while testifying.

The FBI agent “wants the chance to clear his name and tell his story,” Goelman said, later adding that his client “thinks that his position, character, and actions have all been misrepresented and caricatured, and he wants an opportunity to remedy that.”

Goelman, in a letter addressed to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, wrote that Strzok has been “fully cooperative” with Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz and “intends to voluntarily appear and testify before your committee and any other Congressional committee that invites him.”

Strzok was removed from the Russia probe in the summer of 2017 after the FBI found out about the texts.

Although many of the texts had already been made public after the FBI sent them to Congress, a new text revealed that Strzok’s coworker wrote the FBI agent in August 2016:

“(Trump’s) not ever going to become president, right? Right?!”

Strzok responded: “No. No, he won’t. We’ll stop it.”

“Peter Strzok should not have a job anywhere near our Justice Department,” said North Carolina Representative Mark Meadows.

Meanwhile, the inspector general’s report said that exchange “is not only indicative of a biased state of mind but, even more seriously, implies a willingness to take official action to impact the presidential candidate’s electoral prospects. This is antithetical to the core values of the FBI and the Department of Justice.”

President Donald Trump weighed in on the report Saturday, tweeting the FBI’s handling of the Clinton email probe “will go down as a dark and dangerous period in American History!”