Strzok: Clinton was 'not considered a target' in email investigation

Hillary Clinton was not a target, witness, subject or suspect during the investigation into her storage and sending of classified emails on her home server, fired FBI Agent Peter Strzok told Congress last year, according to transcripts released Thursday.

“She was not considered a target by the Justice Department,” Mr. Strzok told the House Judiciary Committee, saying that while investigators saw her as a “critical player,” she was “not by any means the only person that we had an investigative interest in.”

Rep. Doug Collins, Georgia Republican, inserted the transcripts into the Congressional Record during a floor speech, defying a Justice Department that he felt was moving too slowly to clear the information for public consumption.

Mr. Strzok was for a time the lead agent in an investigation into President Trump in the early stages during the 2016 campaign, and would go on to work for special counsel Robert Mueller before being ousted from that team after anti-Trump text screeds to affair partner Lisa Page were uncovered. He was later fired from the FBI itself.

In his Interview with the House Judiciary Committee last year Mr. Strzok admitted he had his affair with Ms. Page, an FBI lawyer, even though he knew, as a top counterintelligence officer it made him vulnerable to being blackmailed by America’s enemies — and even knew of one instance where someone was recruited through that exact means.

The Strzok transcript is the third set Mr. Collins has released, following ones from Justice Department official Bruce Ohr and Ms. Page herself.

The Strzok transcript shows some surprising disconnects between the two lovers.