The Justice Department has investigated whether any texts exchanged by FBI lovers Peter Strzok and Lisa Page were deleted by the DOJ or FBI.

Concerns were raised after the first batch of messages released to Congress excluded texts between December 2016 and May 2017 - covering Trump's inauguration, James Comey's firing and the appointment of Robert Mueller.

A second batch released last week included those texts but raised further questions after several messages appeared incomplete, it has been reported.

The Justice Department investigated whether texts between FBI lovers Peter Strzok were deleted after concerns were raised by Congress over messages that appeared incomplete

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz led the probe, but has so far found no evidence of the texts being tampered with. It is unclear if the investigation is ongoing

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz was tasked with investigating whether the messages were tampered with, Fox News reports.

Horowitz's office has not found any evidence so far that messages were deleted or interfered with. It is not clear if the probe is ongoing, according to Fox.

It is also unclear whether technical glitches could be responsible.

According to GOP sources who spoke with Fox News issues with the most recent batch of texts include a string of messages sent from Page's phone to Strzok without any replies.

Other messages appear to cut off mid-sentence, such as Strzok texting Page: 'So please don't share with Andy [McCabe] yet, I wonder if they've al'

The message continues: 'And both bill and I have an utter lack of faith in'

Page responds: 'GOD HAVE I MENTIONED HOW FRUSTRATING AND AWFUL MY'

The FBI refused to comment on the story, while the Department of Justice said it was not aware of any such allegations.

President Trump and other Republican figures have used the text messages to attack the Russian collusion probe being led by special counsel Robert Mueller (right) as biased

In the first batch of messages, Mr Strzok and Ms Page described Trump as an 'idiot' and a 'loathsome human' and shared their hopes that Hillary Clinton should win the election in their 2016 texts.

The texts date back to 2015, shortly after Trump announced his plans to run for President.

Both Page and Strzok served for a time on Mueller's investigative team. Page left herself after a 45-day detail, while Strzok was removed after the texts came to light.

Republicans and President Trump have used the saga to attack the Bureau and the Mueller investigation by claiming it was biased.

Asked about the scandal following his sacking by Trump, Comey said he had 'no idea' what was going on, but said he was extremely disappointed to hear about it.

He told Fox News he would have 'removed both of them from any contact with significant investigations' if he was aware of the texts.

'It was such poor judgment,' Comey said.

He later told USA Today: 'It doesn't change my view of the case, but the FBI is a public-trust organization. That they are bad-mouthing candidates using FBI (phones) is terrible.'