FBI agent Peter Strzok dodges Bob Goodlatte’s subpoena

By Kelly Cohen

Published June 26, 2018 5:51pm ET

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FBI agent Peter Strzok dodges Bob Goodlatte’s subpoena — 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)

Peter Strzok, the senior FBI counterintelligence agent who has been a lightening rod President Trump and his allies in Congress, will appear voluntarily Wednesday before House lawmakers, dodging a subpoena by a top Republican chairman.

Strzok, who was part of the FBI’s investigations of Hillary Clinton’s pirate email and the Trump campaign’s possible connections with Russia, will meet with the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees, an aide for the former told the Washington Examiner.

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