Well, the long-awaited Inspector General’s report on the FBI’s handling of the Clinton email investigation came out on Thursday. I’m interested enough to read it, but haven’t had the time. Mollie Hemingway has, however, and she gives us a helpful summary of it over at The Federalist.
Key points:
The philandering Peter Strzok, who was guiding both the Clinton email and Russian “collusion” probes, was fiercely partisan toward Mrs. Clinton, and vehemently detested Donald Trump. He told his mistress, the DOJ lawyer Lisa Page, that “we’ll stop” a Trump presidency.
James Comey, far from being the “straight shooter” that nearly everyone (including me) thought he was, was a devious, tendentious, and manipulating sneak, with no regard for rules or protocol, and most likely broke the law as well.
FBI agents did so much leaking to the press the the I.G. couldn’t even track it all down in detail — and were bribed by the press to do so.
Every single instance of bias among FBI employees noted in the report was venomously pro-Clinton and anti-Trump.
When the FBI was notified by the New York field office of the discovery of classified Clinton emails on Anthony Weiner’s laptop shortly before the election, they deliberately tried to sit on it until the election was over.
The “fix” was definitely in for Mrs. Clinton throughout the email investigation, from President Obama on down. Agents joked in private about how key witnesses — for example, the technician handling Mrs. Clinton’s private server — who lied in their FBI interviews would never be charged. (They weren’t.)
Ms. Hemingway’s article is here, and you can read the OIG report here.