They really dug themselves deeper into the hole…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/07/12/peter-strzok-just-gave-a-hard-to-rebut-defense-of-the-objectivity-of-the-russia-investigations-origins/?utm_term=.48c6d906a658

In a written statement offered before he testified before the House Oversight Committee on Thursday, Strzok pointedly noted that there was no effort on his part to keep Trump from winning the White House — and, further, that he was one of only a few people who could have potentially leaked details from the investigation in an effort to block Trump’s victory.

“In the summer of 2016,” Strzok wrote, “I was one of a handful of people who knew the details of Russian election interference and its possible connections with members of the Trump campaign. This information had the potential to derail, and quite possibly, defeat Mr. Trump. But the thought of exposing that information never crossed my mind.”

This is a nearly impossible point to rebut.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/12/politics/strzok-hearing-key-moments-exchanges/index.html

Strzok has been under fire for months over anti-Trump bias, and many of his critics have pointed to a text message he sent saying “we will stop it” in regard to Trump’s candidacy for President.
At the hearing, Strzok said he was not referring to the FBI, but instead to the electorate.
“In terms of the texts that ‘we will stop it,’ you need to understand that was written late at night, off-the-cuff, and it was in response to a series of events that included then-candidate Trump insulting the immigrant family of a fallen war hero, and my presumption, based on that horrible, disgusting behavior, (was) that the American population would not elect somebody demonstrating that behavior to be the President of the United States,” Strzok said.

In one of the more bizarre moments of the hearing, Republican Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona cited his experience as a dentist for helping him judge body language.
“You talk about bias,” Gosar said. “This morning I watched — and by the way, I am a dentist, OK, so I read body language very, very well. And I watched you comment on actions with Mr. Gowdy. You got very angry in regards to the gold star father. That shows me that it is innately a part of you and a bias.”
Strzok appeared confused by the statement.
“Sir, I disagree. I don’t know you are saying this experience is like being at the dentist, if that’s what you’re suggesting. But I would tell you, sir, what you see in my response – what you see in my response is a genuine passion for the United States of America.”