He is the FBI agent who vowed to cease President Donald Trump from successful the 2016 election.
Now Peter Strzok, who labored on each the Clinton and Russia investigations and traded anti-Trump textual content messages with an FBI lawyer, may ignore a subpoena to testify earlier than Congress over the matter.
"My client will testify soon, somewhere, sometime. We just got this subpoena today, so I don't know whether or not we are going to be testifying next Tuesday in front of these two particular House subcommittees," Aitan Goelman, Strzok's legal professional, instructed CNN's Chris Cuomo.
Goelman mentioned he couldn't routinely reply "yes" as a result of he claimed, "that this is not a search for truth; it is a chance for Republican members of the House to preen and posture before their most radical, conspiracy-minded constituents."
Just days in the past, Strzok appeared earlier than the House Judiciary and Oversight Committee behind closed doorways for 11 hours of testimony.
There, he apparently was grilled for having despatched these "concerning" textual content messages about Trump.
The second listening to was referred to as so lawmakers may hear extra about Strzok's expertise engaged on the federal probe into Hillary Clinton's non-public electronic mail server and the connection Trump's marketing campaign had with Russia through the 2016 marketing campaign.
A Department of Justice inspector normal report discovered that Strzok's textual content messages to his work colleague and mistress, Lisa Page, about stopping Trump from successful the election didn't have an effect on the company's capability to analyze Trump correctly.