A stunning new report released by the Office of the Inspector General confirmed Thursday that their investigation recovered over 19,000 “lost” text messages exchanged between former DOJ officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.

“The Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General initiated this investigation upon being notified of a gap in text message data collection during the period December 15, 2016 through May 17, 2017, from Federal Bureau of Investigation mobile devices assigned to FBI employees Peter Strzok and Lisa Page relevant to a matter being investigated by the OIG’s Oversight and Review Division,” writes the report.

“The OIG forensically recovered thousands of text messages from FBI mobile devices issued to Strzok and Page through its multiple extraction efforts. Approximately 9,311 text messages were recovered from Strzok’s S5 [Samsung],” adds the document. “Approximately 10,760 text messages were recovered from Page’s S5.”

Read the full report here.

h/t Town Hall