Former FBI attorney Lisa Page on Tuesday sued the Justice Department and FBI, accusing her former employers of violating her right to privacy by illegally leaking a cache of text messages she sent with a fellow FBI official
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In a tweet announcing the lawsuit, Page expressed dismay over having to sue her former employers. "I take little joy in having done so, but what they did in leaking my messages to the press was not only wrong, it was illegal," she wrote.Former FBI agent Peter Strzok. | Evan Vucci/AP Photo Moreover, the suit claims, the texts would “dominate coverage of the hearing, which otherwise could be unfavorable for the Department. And the Department could achieve all of this at the relatively low cost of the privacy of two FBI employees: Ms. Page, a longtime DOJ and FBI attorney, and Mr. Strzok, a career FBI agent.”
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