FBI agent Peter Strzok volunteers to go before Congress

By Kelly Cohen

Published June 17, 2018 7:56pm ET

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FBI agent Peter Strzok volunteers to go before Congress — FBI Agent Peter Strzok, who exchanged 375 text messages with Department of Justice attorney Lisa Page that led to his removal from special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into ties between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin's efforts to interfere in the U.S. election last summer, is photographed outside his home in Fairfax, Va., on Jan. 3. | (Ron Sachs/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images)

The top FBI agent explicitly named throughout the recent Justice Department inspector general report as having anti-Trump bias will voluntarily go before Congress.

In a letter sent Saturday and made public Sunday to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, the lawyer for Peter Strzok says he will voluntarily appear and testify before the panel, and “any other Congressional committee that invites him.”

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