The missing text messages between Stzrok and Page extend for five months between December 14, 2016 and May 17, 2017.
America’s Take on the “Missing” FBI Text Messages
The allegedly missing texts sparked widespread condemnation from Americans who believe there is more to the story. Moreover, Fox News op-ed writer Richard Manning recently slammed the situation as “worse than Watergate.”
The “insurance policy” claim coupled with Stzrok and Page’s affair has raised many eyebrows. After the Justice Department learned of the affair between the two paramours, Stzrok lost his involvement and access to Robert Mueller’s Russia probe.
Americans are moreover having trouble believing that such potentially incriminating messages could simply vanish from a “glitch.”
Manning moreover notes that the deliberate destruction of the aforementioned text messages breaches U.S. law. 18 U.S.C. Section 1519 which affirms that fines and a two-decade prison sentence are warranted by “knowingly alter[ing], destroy[ing], mutilat[ing], conceal[ing], cover[ing] up, falsify[ing], or mak[ing] a false entry” of government “records, documents, or tangible objects.“
