U.S. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Nunes Wants To Know Why He Was Not Told That The Top FBI Agent In The Trump-Russia Investigation Was Removed

House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

Byron York, Washington Examiner: Nunes blows up, threatens contempt after FBI stonewalls House on Russia investigator demoted for anti-Trump bias

House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes has issued an angry demand to the FBI and Department of Justice to explain why they kept the committee in the dark over the reason Special Counsel Robert Mueller kicked a key supervising FBI agent off the Trump-Russia investigation.

Stories in both the Washington Post and New York Times on Saturday reported that Peter Strzok, who played a key role in the original FBI investigation into the Trump-Russia matter, and then a key role in Mueller's investigation, and who earlier had played an equally critical role in the FBI's Hillary Clinton email investigation, was reassigned out of the Mueller office because of anti-Trump texts he exchanged with a top FBI lawyer, Lisa Page, with whom Strzok was having an extramarital affair. Strzok was transferred to the FBI's human resources office — an obvious demotion -- in July.

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WNU Editor: I would love to know who leaked this story to the New York Times and Washington Post that got House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes all worked up .... Mueller Commission Removes Top FBI Agent In Russia Probe Over Anti-Trump Texts. Someone from the FBI? The Justice Department? This revelation has .... not surprising .... made House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes demanding answers on why he was not told that the top FBI investigator in the original FBI investigation into the Trump-Russia matter as well as the Hillary Clinton email investigation .... was demoted/removed/reassigned because of concerns that he may be  biased. I will also not be surprised if Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Richard Burr will be making the same demands in the next day or two (if not already) if he was also kept out of the loop on this story. And if the answers are not satisfactory, the following big question will then be raised .... did this FBI agent's alleged political bias impact his investigation on the Hillary Clinton email server case. My prediction .... because the Mueller Counsel has shown itself to be very sensitive on appearing non-partisan .... I do expect an explanation and answers to be coming from them very soon. Personally .... I would also love to know what was in those texts that got this top FBI agent removed. As I said in a previous post .... my gut is telling me that he must have said/text something that raised a lot of red flags.