The U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG)released a 500-page report Thursday detailing the results of a long-running inquiry into whether the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) led by James Comey acted inappropriately leading up to the 2016 election with its handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation.
Our attorneys and legal analysts spent hours sifting through the 500-page report. Here are the top takeaways, and most important legal points.
Foreign actors admittedly gained access to Hillary Clinton’s emails.
Peter Strzok, who served as chief of the counter espionage section of the FBI during the Clinton investigation is quoted at length in the report noting:
It is more accurate to say we know foreign actors obtained access to some of her emails (including at least one Secret one) via compromises of the private email accounts of some of her staffers. It’s also accurate to say that a sophisticated foreign actor would likely have known about her private email domain, and would be competent enough not to leave a trace if they gained access. But we have seen no direct evidence they did.
This comes as news. But Comey’s original draft statement appears to somewhat bury the information here, too. That portion of Comey’s statement claimed it was, “reasonably likely that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s private email account.” The final version of Comey’s statement said such hostile access was “possible.”
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