I see that Mark Tapscott has stumbled across the same point I made yesterday:
FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok and his lover, bureau lawyer Lisa Page, sent each other an estimated 50,000 text messages during a five-month period in 2016 and 2017 that are now “lost.â€
To put 50,000 texts in five months into perspective, consider this:
- There are 12,960,000 seconds in five 30-day months.
- The number 12,960,000 divided by 50,000 equals a new text message every 259.2 seconds.
- This means Strzok and Page texted each other about every 4.32 minutes.
- That’s every day of every week of every month for five months!
Investigators might wonder how Strzok and Page found time to do anything else — like participating in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of allegations President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign colluded with Russian interests to defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton.
To which I’d add that they must have been completely unsupervised for the entire period. Anything remotely resembling management would’v’e noticed how many texts they were sending and put an end to it.
Today the story changed to to the 50k involved more than just those two. But this is a diversion. The story of the day is that the FBI, who couldn’t figure out how to find and produce the texts have been shown to be fools or obstructionists. The IG is recovering them, perhaps all.
In 5 days? C’mon, man.
On a busy day, if you count sent and received, I probably hit 150-200 texts, but not from just one person. No surprise the “lost” texts were found. They found all the Clinton emails. Totally predictable as there were several ways to get them. Of course the FBI, the agency that makes a living finding this stuff is guilty of trying to lose according to the dimwits on the right.
Steve
Damn, I thought my teenager daughter texted a lot.
Weren’t they having an affair? One text every four minutes might, just might, be suspicious. Or you know the 50K number is total bullshit, just like the secret society with its coup that turned out to be three agents trying to start a book club or something…the best part about the attempt to overthrow the gov’t was the first step wasn’t to stop it or to protect the ‘informant’, but to go on Fox. Imagine if there was actually a secret society hearing on Fox that they’ve an informant in their midst…LOL
Meanwhile, Trump seems to be pretty into stopping this investigation. Wonder why?
His calculation is wrong. It’s more like one text every three minutes.
I don’t much care whether they were having an affair. I care that they weren’t working and weren’t being supervised.
The point being is that an affair requires discretion. Texting somebody every 3 minutes might–just might–be noticed by one’s spouse. Again, the 50K is almost certainly BS.
A one word or acronym would count as one text, and if I understand correctly, a long text would count for multiple texts. (Except for extraordinary circumstances, I am a non-texter, and I intentionally have limited knowledge of how texting works.)
I do not know how many individual texts are sent back-and-forth by heavy texters, but from what I have seen, the total can be fairly high. Also, has the 50,000 been divided in half before the time calculations were made? From my observation, one person is reading while the other is texting. Short texts can be read quickly, and fast thumbs can spit them out quickly.
TB is correct. An awful of my texts consist of “K” “yes” and “no”. You can also voice text. Since this is really a smear campaign aimed at these two people with few facts, I assume there is a lot of exaggeration.
Steve