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Ex-FBI LAYER Lisa Page today defied a House of Representatives issued Subpoena to testify before Congress! Wow, but is anybody really surprised! Together with her lover, FBI Agent Peter Strzok, she worked on the Rigged Witch Hunt, perhaps the most tainted and corrupt case EVER!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 11, 2018

Democrats say Republicans are using the messages and a standoff with the Justice Department over sensitive documents in an effort to undermine the Mueller investigation.

“It’s pretty transparent,” Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., a member of the Judiciary Committee, told ABC News. “They’re FBI officers, to think their texts aren’t going to be reachable, it’s dumb stuff… that does not have anything to do with the FBI as an institution, and I think Republicans are trying to conflate the two.”

In his report on the handling of the Clinton email investigation, the DOJ inspector general found no \"documentary or testimonial evidence\" that political bias impacted the investigation that Strzok supervised, but said the actions of some agents damaged the FBI’s credibility.

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Reps. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., and Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., the chairmen of the House Judiciary and Oversight committees, have threatened to hold Page in contempt of Congress if she does appear at the hearing with Strzok on Thursday, or separately for a private interview on Friday.

Amy Jeffress, an attorney for Page, said her client has offered to appear before the committee voluntarily but is seeking access to relevant documents from the FBI before appearing.

“Through her actions and words, Lisa has made it abundantly clear that she will cooperate with this investigation. All she is asking is to be treated as other witnesses have under the Committees’ own rules.

“She has offered to voluntarily appear before the Committees later this month. She simply needs clarification of the scope of the Committee’s interest in interviewing her and access to relevant documents so that she can provide complete and accurate testimony. I received a message from the Department of Justice after 11 pm last night that they have finally granted her request to review the relevant documents. We are working to arrange that process quickly so that we can move forward with her appearance before the Committees.

“There is no basis for claims that Lisa has anything to hide or is unwilling to testify. The record shows otherwise. Lisa has already cooperated with multiple investigations underway in Congress and at the Department of Justice. She provided more than 36 hours of testimony to DOJ’s Office of Inspector General and has cooperated fully with another congressional committee,” she said.

“The HJC and HOGR Committees’ bullying tactics here are unnecessary. We expect them to agree to another date so that Lisa can appear before the Committees in the near future.”

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