Lisa Page Sues FBI, DOJ Over Texts, Alleged Bias Hunt (1)

December 11, 2019, 3:58 PM UTCUpdated: December 11, 2019, 4:49 PM UTC

The U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation violated federal privacy law when they shared hundreds of former FBI attorney Lisa Page’s texts with reporters, Page says in a new suit.

Justice Department inspectors who were looking into possible bias in the FBI’s investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server for government work collected Page’s texts, along with other materials, according to the Dec. 10 complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

The “officials who authorized the disclosure and their allies sought to use, and ultimately ...

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