Lawmakers divided over Peter Strzok’s bias after ‘feisty, tense’ interview

Published June 28, 2018 12:01am ET



Peter Strzok, the FBI counterintelligence agent who said “we’ll stop” then-candidate Donald Trump from becoming president, was interviewed by members of the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees behind closed doors for nearly 10 hours Wednesday, and House Republicans and Democrats remain divided over the impact his apparent political bias had on the investigations he helped coordinate.

Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., called the interview a “feisty, tense exchange,” and said the text messages Strzok sent with his FBI colleague Lisa Page — with whom he was having an extramarital affair — were simply part of an “intimate conversation.”

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