The smoking text, as it were, was sent from Mr Strzok to Ms Page in August 2016 and read:
“I want to believe the path you threw out in Andy’s [McCabe’s] office—that there’s no way he gets elected—but I’m afraid we can’t take the risk. It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.”
At the time, FBI agents referred to the Trump campaign by the code name “Crossfire Hurricane” (one for Rolling Stones fans there), hence this reference in Ms Page’s testimony to the Judiciary Committee:
“So, upon the opening of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, we had a number of discussions up through and including the director regularly in which we were trying to find an answer to the question, right, which is, is there someone associated with the [Trump] campaign who is working with the Russians in order to obtain damaging information about Hillary Clinton. And given that it is August [2016], we were very aware of the speed and sensitivity that we needed to operate under,” she explained before Congress last July.
“If the answer is this is a guy just being puffery at a meeting with other people, great, then we don’t need to worry about this, and we can all move on with our lives; if this is, in fact, the Russians have co-opted an individual with, you know, maybe wittingly or unwittingly, that’s incredibly grave, and we need to know that as quickly as possible.”
She told the House the texts reflected the FBI “continuing check-in” as to “how quickly to operate.”
“We don’t need to go at a total breakneck speed because so long as he doesn’t become president, there isn’t the same threat to national security, right,” Ms Page said. “But if he becomes president, that totally changes the game because now he is the president of the United States. He’s going to immediately start receiving classified briefings. He’s going to be exposed to the most sensitive secrets imaginable. And if there is somebody on his team who wittingly or unwittingly is working with the Russians, that is super-serious.”
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