Former FBI director James Comey was villain #1 on the left after he announced late in the 2016 campaign that the bureau was going to examine Hillary Clinton emails found on the laptop of disgraced congressman Anthony Weiner. Democrats claimed that that announcement cost Hillary Clinton the election.
Comey is now a hero on the left but questions about the timing of Comey’s announcement have persisted.
It now appears that the inspector general for the Department of Justice has unraveled the mystery in his much anticipated report, to be released soon, and will criticize top FBI officials for sitting on the emails for at least a month before getting a warrant to examine them.
Some FBI officials, like then-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, knew as early as September 2016 of the emails, but the bureau did not obtain a warrant to review them until the following month.
The IG report, which is examining a broad range of FBI actions during the email investigation, is expected to criticize officials, including Comey, for not moving fast enough to examine the email trove and for a weekslong delay in getting a warrant, sources told the AP.
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