way they re going to beat mule he investigation politically and use him to make the russian investigation look so terrible maybe they can get account whole thing shut down all together or something. a couple of problems with that strategy which we are going to see in living color over the next 24 hours including starting tomorrow morning. one problem they ve got is what his actual job was at the fbi. he ran counter intelligence in this country at the fbi. destroying him says something about congressional republicans view of the value of counter intelligence at a time when there as active concern about that for a lot of americans for a lot of obvious reasons. that, of course, won t stop them. but that brings us to the other big problem they ve got with trying to peter strzok their get out of jail free card on the scandal. turns out he s not the world s greatest door mat. his lawyers public statements about peter strzok s eagerness to clear his name are evidence of that. strzok s lawyer
donald heathfield at his graduation ceremony that year. the fbi was watching them and surveilling them and collecting intel for the whole six-year period. the fbi during that time had put microphones inside the spy s house. on or about october you this, 2004, law enforcement agents intercepted oral communications taking place inside the boston town house. tracy leanne foley defendant was heard saying to donald heathfield defendant can we attach two files containing messages or not? let s say four pictures? they re talking about this steganography code. they re talking about transmitting secret messages using the picture encryption trick they ve got on the password protected disks and apparently had no idea they shouldn t talk about out loud about that in their house because the fbi had bugged their house. they had no include that the fbi was on to them for years down to
consultancy in cambridge but he was using that as cover to spy for russia. it turns out he wasn t just reporting back publicly available information like there s a new cia director and there s an election under way. he was getting information out of individual that he was reporting back to moscow, individuals like a person who had worked in congress as a legislative council. an economic contact. he reported he had established contact with a former high ranking security official. the fbi knows who that was. they didn t put their name in the indictment but they watch the that contact happen and watched reported up the chain by this spy. feithfield appears to have made contact with a u.s. official working on nukes clear weapons at a u.s. government research facility. spf had conversations with him about research programs on small yield high penetration nuclear warheads authorized by uss congress ie nuclear bunker buster warheads.
it s not comforting that an active russian spy was making contact with and communicating with u.s. officials who were actively involved in nuclear weapons research in the united states. right? that s alarming. it is slightly less alarming when you learn that the fbi was watching them do it every step of the way for years while the spies will no idea the fbi was on to them. this is the counter intelligence part of the fbi at work. their job is to counter foreign intelligence operations inside the united states. in the donald heathfield and tracy leanne foley case you see that work unfolding completely undetected with this incredible level of intrusive surveillance on these spies over the course of a decade. i mean this must be hard to do without being found out, right? it s unbelievably cinematic. this case of the russian illegals this spy ring which was uncovered in 2010 really is what led to the tv series the
it was just starting in the summer of 2016 and peter strzok was working on that investigation, he exchanged texts with lisa paige at the fbi apparently while the two of them were each watching tv footage of the republican national convention. now i m going to read you one of those texts from peter strzok. i m not going to swear when i read that text but i want you to know i m going to make an obvious allusion to a swear word just in case you re watching with your kid and you don t want your kid to hear it. ready. one, two, three. of f the cheating mother iffing russians. bas tarreds. i hate them. i think they re the divorce. iffing conniving cheating savages as the state craft, athletics you name it. i m glad i m on team usa. yes, peter strzok s damning text messages. president trump and the republican who s support him and congress decided peter strzok s personal texts make him an