A batch of new texts Strzok-Pages shows the FBI's efforts to shape news stories

More than 100 pages of recently retrieved text messages show that former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page used authorized channels within the FBI to shape what they considered to be false media information. from outside the FBI and the Ministry of Justice.

ABC News was able to review the full batch of text messages Thursday, just days after at least one Republican MP posted just two of hundreds of text messages alleging "a coordinated effort by the FBI and the DOJ to disseminate information in the US. public domain potentially prejudicial to the administration of President Donald Trump. "

The messages show that the FBI was in regular contact with some journalists, but that it was the head of the FBI press service – the agency's representative to the press – who engaged with the journalists, according to the documents. . And these contacts were often aimed at shaping stories already present in the work of journalists or looking for changes to previously published articles, suggest text messages.

For example, on December 16, 2016, the Washington Post published an article under the headline: "The FBI, in agreement with the CIA, said Russia wanted to help Trump win the White House."

In a text message that day, Mr. Strzok stated on the page that the angle of the article, namely "the idea that we somehow arrived at the position of the agency ", made me really angry.

Strzok wrote to Page that the FBI has always believed "there was a variety of motives", and it was the CIA that changed its position afterwards. Thus, the text messages show that the head of the FBI press service tried to update the story.

At least the title has been revised, but Strzok privately has always contested this idea.

"The agency is playing the game better than us," Strzok lamented in a text message, stressing that the CIA's public relations efforts were more effective than those of the FBI.

Before being relegated to the FBI's human resources department last year and fired from the FBI last month, Strzok helped lead the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and possible contacts between Trump's associates and Russian members. Page was an FBI lawyer.

The text messages reviewed by ABC News Thursday also show that in February 2017, as the New York Times was preparing to report that Trump's associates had "had repeated contact with senior Russian officials over the course of the year." the year before the election, "the FBI spokesman repeatedly with the newspaper reporters.

"[He] ran through the thought / chronology / story of the boss about it, "Strzok wrote to Page on February 14, 2017. But months later, James Comey, then director of the FBI, told Congress that" true. "

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Yet in a letter to the Justice Department on Monday, one of Trump's most fervent allies, Republican Republican Mark Meadows of Republic of North Carolina described the recently recovered text messages as "disturbing."

He specifically drew attention to a text message sent by Strzok on April 10, 2017, in which Strzok told Page that he wanted to "tell you about the media's leak strategy with the DOJ."

Strzok's lawyer then issued his own statement, insisting that the text messages reflected a renewed effort by the Justice Department and the FBI to stop media leaks – not to promote them. And a review of public announcements at the time confirms counsel's claims, including the subsequent announcement by Attorney General Jeff Sessions during this period that the Department of Justice and the FBI had been working on ways to deter media leaks.

Meanwhile, Strzok and Page have repeatedly speculated on leaking information to reporters.

"It would be logical for Hill to start strategically on Monday to prepare for the scene," Strzok wrote on March 17, 2017, after the Washington Post obtained some information before Comey's long-awaited testimony to legislators three days later. later.

Then, a week later, Strzok wrote on the page: "I hope that they understand that the main reasons are the [political appointees] to WH and DoJ, not the poor FBI agents and analysts.

A few months earlier, when the New York Times began working on a history of previous cyber-attacks targeting Republicans, Strzok seemed to speculate that other US agencies were behind the story.

"Think our sisters began to sink like crazy," he wrote in December 2016. "Contempt and worried and political, they are overdriven."

On Thursday morning, Trump launched another attack on Twitter against the FBI and the Justice Department, stating that "more text messages between former FBI employees Peter Strzok and Lisa Page are a disaster and embarrassment."

"Others were fleeing like crazy to go to the president!" He tweeted.

Strzok was fired from the FBI last month for sending a series of anti-Trump text messages to Page before the elections in 2016 and in the months that followed. The page has also left the FBI.

In January, the Ministry of Justice handed lawmakers over 1,300 messages sent between Strzok and Page.

The messages provoked a political storm of fire, but at the time, the Justice Department had declared that five months of messages had disappeared from the FBI and had to be recovered. Many of these messages have been recovered and are those that ABC News reviewed on Thursday.

They were sent to members of Congress and include more anti-Trump sentiments.

It is not known if all the messages have been recovered.