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Ex-FBI officials Strzok, Page near DOJ settlement over anti-Trump text leak

Fired FBI agent Peter Strzok and former bureau lawyer Lisa Page have reached a tentative deal to settle a lawsuit alleging that the Trump administration’s Justice Department violated the Privacy Act by leaking their anti-Trump texts.

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Updated May 28, 2024 at 9:12 p.m. EDT|Published May 28, 2024 at 6:49 p.m. EDT
Peter Strzok at a hearing on Capitol Hill in 2018. (Evan Vucci/AP)
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Two former senior FBI employees have reached a tentative agreement with the Justice Department to largely settle their consolidated lawsuits alleging that they were illegally targeted for retribution by the Trump administration after the FBI investigated Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election, according to a court filing Tuesday.

In a two-page filing, lawyers for former senior FBI agent Peter Strzok, former FBI lawyer Lisa Page and the Justice Department said they have reached a tentative agreement to resolve allegations that the department violated the two employees’ privacy rights when, in December 2017, it leaked their politically charged text messages criticizing Donald Trump while they were having an affair.