Del Quentin Wilber and Sadie Gurman report for the WSJ:
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has fired agent Peter Strzok, whose anti-Donald Trump text messages prompted sharp criticism over his handling of two politically charged investigations.
His attorney, Aitan Goelman, said Mr. Strzok was fired Friday. The FBI didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.
Mr. Strzok was the lead agent on the FBI probe into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server as secretary of state. He later served as the lead agent in the early days of special counsel Robert Mueller's inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Mr. Mueller removed him from the probe a year ago, after the Justice Department inspector general uncovered Mr. Strzok's exchange of tens of thousands of text messages from 2015 through 2017 with a former FBI lawyer, Lisa Page, with whom he was having an affair.
Mr. Strzok testified in July on Capitol Hill that he never permitted his views to affect his official actions, a stance Republicans contested.
Strzok Fired curated from Crime and Consequences Blog
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