{"id":57399,"date":"2018-01-25T05:32:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T05:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=57399"},"modified":"2018-01-25T05:32:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T05:32:24","slug":"thousands-fbi-cellphones-affected-glitch-lost-strzok-page-texts-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/thousands-fbi-cellphones-affected-glitch-lost-strzok-page-texts-officials-say.html","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of FBI cellphones affected by glitch that lost Strzok-Page texts, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Thousands of FBI cellphones affected by glitch that lost Strzok-Page texts, officials say<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Thousands of FBI cellphones were affected by the technical glitch that the DOJ says prevented five months\u2019 worth of text messages between FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page from being stored or uploaded into the bureau\u2019s archive system, federal law enforcement officials tell Fox News.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The missing messages have been at the center of a storm of controversy on Capitol Hill, after the DOJ notified congressional committees that there is a gap in records between Dec. 14, 2016, and May 17, 2017. Strzok and Page are under scrutiny after it was revealed that the former members of Robert Mueller&#8217;s team exchanged a series of anti-Trump texts during the presidential campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The gap in records covered a crucial period, raising suspicion among GOP lawmakers about how those messages disappeared.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">But Fox News is told that the glitch affected the phones of \u201cnearly\u201d 10 percent of the FBI\u2019s 35,000 employees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Senior Department of Justice officials told Fox News they are &#8220;taking steps&#8221; to possibly recover the texts from the appropriate cellphone carriers. 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