Anti-Trump FBI official identified as leaker to WSJ!

WASHINGTON (PNN) - January 26, 2018 - Newly released text messages between controversial anti-Trump FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page reveal several leaks of confidential information to Wall Street Journal reporter Devlin Barrett, who is now with the Washington Post.

Following the release of the time stamped texts by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (Iowa), Conservative Treehouse compared the timing of the messages between the agents and tied them to several instances of Barrett breaking news or confirming rumors based on "sources" within the government. This October 23, 2016 “scoop” aligns with the internal text messaging discussion between Agent Peter Strzok and FBI Attorney Lisa Page, who were discussing James Comey’s chief-of-staff James Rybicki, recommending that FBI Asst. Director Andrew McCabe should be recused from the Hillary Clinton investigation.

Barrett left the Wall Street Journal and joined the Washington Post, where he wrote a cover story to explain away a bizarre text between Strzok and Page referencing then-candidate Hillary Clinton.

The Post article starts off:

“Two senior FBI officials who texted each other about President (Donald) Trump and Hillary Clinton relied on work phones to try to hide their romance from a spouse and made the bureau’s probe of Clinton’s private email server their cover story for being in such close contact, according to people familiar with the matter.”

We now have what appears to be evidence of an FBI official leaking information to a WSJ/WaPo reporter, who subsequently tweeted and wrote articles defending Page and Strzok, while throwing FBI deputy director Andy McCabe under the bus.

Then again, as the Conservative Treehouse notes, former FBI Director James Comey was doing the same thing.