Louie Gohmert: Lisa Page giving us ‘more insights’ into Russia investigation
by Pete Kasperowicz, published on Washington Examiner, on July 17, 2018
Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, said Tuesday that former FBI lawyer Lisa Page has been more helpful than FBI agent Peter Strzok when it comes to answering their questions about how the FBI handled the Russia and Hillary Clinton investigations.
“She has given us more insights to who was involved in what,” Gohmert told Fox News.
“She’s a more contrite person,” he added. “But make no mistake … she’s a Democrat. She wanted Hillary to win and she did not want Trump to win, and that’s been obvious.”
Gohmert said Page has not contradicted Strzok, with whom she had an affair that was discovered by the Justice Department’s inspector general. The two texted each other anti-Trump messages, which led to GOP claims that the FBI was biased against President Trump and for Clinton.
But Gohmert said Page has generally been more cooperative, which he indicated has opened more doors in the House Republican probe.
Gohmert said, for example, that there are other FBI supervisors involved in the GOP investigation besides Strzok, although he didn’t name them. He also indicated that former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper could be involved.
“When I hear Brennan or Clapper either saying the kind of things they’ve been saying recently, then it tells me, wow, we must be getting close to them,” Gohmert said. “Those guilty dogs are barking pretty loud.”
Gohmert said Page’s closed-door testimony in the House on Friday and Monday was at times so frank that FBI lawyers tried to keep her from answering.
“There were times the FBI lawyers would be reaching for the button to mute her comment and she would answer before the thing could mute her comment,” he said.
“I think she’ll be a good witness,” he added. “I don’t know that we’re going to have a public hearing with her. But the important thing is to continue to gather the evidence.”
