FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok, testifies before a House Judiciary Committee joint hearing on “oversight of FBI and Department of Justice actions surrounding the 2016 election” on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Things are definitely heating up in the investigation of the Russia probe.

Multiple reports confirmed yesterday that U.S. Attorney John Durham’s investigation was now officially a criminal investigation which gives him the power to subpoena witnesses, call a grand jury, and file charges.

Reports have also indicated that this expanding of the investigation changed after information which Attorney General William Barr and Durham found in Rome during their investigation and that Durham was very interested in questioning former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former CIA Director John Brennan.

Now new texts are also adding more fire to the inferno. According to Fox, Republicans are demanding answers from the ICIG Michael Atkinson if he’s been investigating leaks and released previously unpublished texts and emails from Peter Strzok. They highlighted various texts showing the involvement or knowledge of leaks reflected by Strzok’s texts. On Dec. 15, 2016, he wrote, “Think our sisters have begun leaking like mad. Scorned and worried and political, they’re kicking in to overdrive.” “Think there will be a crescendo of leaks/articles leading up to Thurs,” he tweeted on June 6, 2017.

Johnson and Grassley emphasized in their letter that the Trump administration “has faced 125 leaked stories — one leak a day — containing information that was potentially damaging to national security,” according to standards laid out during the Obama administration.

The Republicans have sought answers formally from the ICIG concerning those leaks since May. But, they wrote Wednesday, the ICIG has been nonresponsive — and even claimed that it cannot comment because Atkinson gave closed-door congressional testimony on Capitol Hill and the transcript of his remarks is not yet public.

But there were even more bombshells from the new texts and a filing by Sidney Powell, the attorney for Gen. Michael Flynn.

Powell has moved to dismiss the case against Flynn and asked the court to hold the government in contempt for suppressing texts between Lisa Page and Peter Strozk. The motion is a stunning look into the effort to target Flynn to get at the president.

Powell alleges a set-up of Flynn including that the FBI 302s related to Flynn were edited. A 302 is the form the FBI uses to reflect what a witness says during an interview. Powell’s filing also suggests that Office of Net Assessment’s James Baker illegally leaked the transcripts of Flynn’s calls to David Ignatius of the Washington Post. And Powell is specifically looking for the phone records of James Clapper to see about his contacts with Ignatius, including that he essentially told Ignatius to “take the kill shot on Flynn.”

The new texts released confirm the editing, showing multiple references to editing the 302s by multiple parties, as Techno Fog breaks down in these tweets.

BREAKING – new @SidneyPowell1 filing in the Flynn case.

Lisa Page edited the Flynn 302.

James Clapper told WaPo reporter Ignatius to basically "take the kill shot on Flynn"

THREAD

cc @KerriKupecDOJ pic.twitter.com/YqEIsMUAiu

— Techno Fog (@Techno_Fog) October 25, 2019

Included: new Page/Strzok texts.

Discussion between Lisa Page and Peter Strzok re: editing the Flynn 302.

Strzok to Page: “I made your edits”

Also discussion of misleading leadership re: picking up 302. pic.twitter.com/w5wuU3SwZh

— Techno Fog (@Techno_Fog) October 25, 2019

New Page/Strzok texts also include this post-Flynn interview analysis of Strzok.

This appears to confirm they left the interview thinking Flynn didn’t lie. pic.twitter.com/Gw99uMMrku

— Techno Fog (@Techno_Fog) October 25, 2019

Manipulation of the Flynn 302 — two weeks after the interview. (1/24/17 vs 2/10/17; timeline key.)

Agent notes say Flynn wasn’t sure he spoke to Kislyak on the UN vote.

The 302 says different. pic.twitter.com/Nf0xfi6FFZ

— Techno Fog (@Techno_Fog) October 25, 2019

More on the 302: They added Kislyak’s description of any Russian response to a request from Flynn.

Powell: “That question and answer do not appear in the [agent] notes” pic.twitter.com/04zjcMQnCP

— Techno Fog (@Techno_Fog) October 25, 2019

The Flynn 302 doesn’t even match the FBI Agents’ notes.

Agent Notes: “I don’t remember making 4-5 calls.”

302: “Flynn remembered making four to give calls that day about this issue.” pic.twitter.com/27WlXJ6gG6

— Techno Fog (@Techno_Fog) October 25, 2019

This is troubling in the extreme.