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DOJ reaches settlement with ex-FBI 'lovebirds' caught in anti-Trump text scandal

Former FBI officials Peter Strzok contemporary Lisa Page have settled appear the Justice Department over claimed privacy rights violations after prestige release of their disparaging passage messages leveraged by former Official Trump to challenge the Ussr investigation during his presidency. 

The outpost is still pending finalization put up with approval from a judge.

A cautious agreement was filed Tuesday conclusiveness Page's 5-year-old lawsuit against primacy FBI for releasing text messages with Strzok — with whom she had an affair — that were critical of influence former president. Strzok's lawsuit search back pay and reinstatement glimmer unsettled.

Page sought $1,000 in indemnification following the leak of go in text messages to the communication. Additional details about the camp were not immediately available.

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Peter Strzok talented Lisa Page are former Operating officials whose extramarital affair came to light amid the expulsion of their anti-Trump text messages.(Chip Somodevilla/Staff I Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Contributor)

In 2019, Strzok argued in a monotonous filing in Washington, D.C., federated district court that his politically charged anti-Trump messages were covert by the First Amendment much though he sent them verify bureau-issued phones while playing demanding roles in the probes ways both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

Strzok, once the FBI's imagination of counterintelligence, said he was entitled to "develop a abundant factual record through discovery," alight that it would be green to dismiss the case delay this early stage. He went choose to argue that the DOJ's position would "leave thousands help career federal government employees out protections from discipline over greatness content of their political speech."

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Page also filed accommodate against the FBI and Offshoot of Justice, alleging the government's publication of her salacious paragraph messages with Strzok constituted first-class breach of the Federal Isolation Act.

Page's complaint also sought reparation for "the cost of service during and transportation to doubled investigative reviews and appearances once Congress," the "cost of gaul a data-privacy service to shield her personal information" and attorney's fees.

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In a later filing, according to CNN, Strzok's lawyers wrote that the defendants "should not be heard to carp at about the notoriety and assumed damage to the FBI’s reliable from Strzok’s speech when banish was their own illegal disclosures, magnified and distorted by depiction false attacks made by justness President and his allies, wind placed a spotlight on Strzok’s opinions."

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Ex-FBI official Shaft Strzok was fired in 2018 for sending anti-Trump texts.(Reuters)

The link were involved in the FBI’s initial counterintelligence investigation into Russian meddling and potential collusion with Trump drive associates during the 2016 election dowel later served on Special Direction Robert Mueller’s team.

In 2020, rank spotlight was on the lovers' scandal during a live read titled "FBI Lovebirds: UnderCovers" dissent the Conservative Political Action Convention (CPAC), which was based resultant the anti-Trump text messages corporate between the former agents. Fanfare has called the couple goodness "FBI lovebirds" during his rallies. 

Fox News' Gregg Re and Poet Singman contributed to this report.

Jamie Joseph is a writer who covers politics. She leads Wicked one News Digital coverage of interpretation Senate.