If you remember Peter Strzok’s testimony before Congress, you would never have thought this was a guy who’d been caught red-handed engaging in misconduct. Strzok was arrogant and self-assured, treating questions from Republican congressmen as if they were ridiculous and beneath him to deal with.

He brushed aside any suggestion that he was using his role at the FBI to pursue a political agenda in favor of Hillary Clinton and against Donald Trump. He breezily dismissed questions about the most damning texts he sent to his mistress Lisa Page as obviously insignificant. He did all of this with a smirk on his face and a defiant tone in his voice.

The left-wing media were overjoyed and claimed Strzok had “won” the exchange. They thought their side had dodged a bullet and that, henceforth, no one would believe the FBI had done anything wrong with respect to the 2016 presidential campaign.

But the FBI fired Strzok anyway, prompting him to file a wrongful termination suit and demand his job back. Yesterday the Justice Department released a treasure trove of information that backs up its case for the firing of Strzok. Let’s just say: He’s not getting his job back.

It’s not just that Strzok was having an affair with an FBI lawyer. It’s not just that Strzok and Page were texting their disdain for Trump and their determination to abuse their roles at the FBI to keep him from winning the election. It was much more than that.

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The Justice Department says Strzok also had a habit of storing sensitive FBI material on his unsecured cell phone. That’s the same phone his wife picked up and discovered his affair with Page.

There were also widespread concerns that Strzok was not taking seriously the Hillary e-mail investigation, of which he was supposed to be the head. Federal prosecutors in New York were so concerned about Strzok’s performance on the case that they went over his head to James Comey to express their concerns. That resulted, in part, in Comey’s late October announcement that some of Hillary’s e-mails had been found on Anthony Weiner’s laptop and that the investigation was being reopened. Apparently Strzok knew about that before Comey did, and his inclination was to bury it.

Can anyone guess why? Obviously: Strzok wanted Hillary to win the election, and to him that was more important than pursuing the cases to which he’d been assigned.

Through the whole thing, Strzok was both sloppy and cavalier about his duties:

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Additionally, DOJ and OPR noted that although Strzok claimed to have “double deleted” sensitive FBI materials from his personal devices, his wife nonetheless apparently found evidence of his affair on his cellphone — including photographs and a hotel reservation “ostensibly” used for a “romantic encounter.” Strzok didn’t consent to turning over the devices for review, according to OPR, even as he acknowledged using Apple’s iMessage service for some FBI work.

“[My wife] has my phone. Read an angry note I wrote but didn’t send you. That is her calling from my phone. She says she wants to talk to [you]. Said we were close friends nothing more,” one of Strzok’s text to Page read, according to the filing.

Remember that the next time you consider Strzok’s denials before Congress, consider how shamelessly he lies to his wife here. The most reasonable reading of his texts is that he meant exactly what he seemed to mean – that he intended to use the Russia hoax as an “insurance policy” to either stop Trump from becoming president or, if it came to that, destroy his presidency.

He also told Page in their texts that the Hillary investigation was not one to be taken seriously, and that’s reflected in how he approached it.

These were the clear meanings of his texts, and when he protests that he really meant something else, remember: The man is a reckless liar.

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The FBI’s pursuit of the Russia hoax, based on the fraudlent, Clinton-financed Steele Dossier, was one of the biggest abuses of power in FBI history. And Peter Strzok was right in the middle of it. Now we know more about what kind of guy he is.

That leads to another interesting observation: James Comey and Andrew McCabe surely knew before the rest of us what kind of guy Strzok is, and yet they put him on both of these investigations. What does that tell us about the outcomes they wanted?