Sen. Ron Johnson: Will Investigate FBI, 'Secret Meetings'

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said Wednesday that legislators will begin to "investigate the FBI" over text messages sent between agent Peter Strzok and attorney Lisa Page.

"There is indications there were a number of high-level officials that were holding secret meetings offsite," Johnson said on Fox News Wednesday. "Strzok and Page were very high-level within the FBI . . . These are people at the top of the FBI."

Johnson, the chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, also said that the panel has "an informant that's talking about a group that was holding secret meetings offsite."

The senator refused to identify the informant when asked for details, saying, "I'm not going to get into at all where we are getting this information. We protect our sources."

He added, "I don't want to give any indication, because we are dealing with the world's premier investigative agency here, and people that come forward to us fear retaliation. That's true throughout government. People fear retaliation within government agencies, it's rampant, and particularly within the FBI."

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