Posted on Jul 22, 2025
Newly Declassified DOJ Watchdog Report Shows FBI Cut Corners in Clinton Email Investigation |...
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“This document shows an extreme lack of effort and due diligence in the FBI’s investigation of former Secretary Clinton’s email usage and mishandling of highly classified information,” Grassley said. “Under Comey’s leadership, the FBI failed to perform fundamental investigative work and left key pieces of evidence on the cutting room floor. The Comey FBI’s negligent approach and perhaps intentional lack of effort in the Clinton investigation is a stark contrast to its full-throated investigation of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax, which was based on the uncorroborated and now discredited Steele dossier. Comey’s decision-making process smacks of political infection.” … The thumb drives were never reviewed as part of the Clinton investigation, contrary to the recommendation of a draft FBI memorandum. The DOJ OIG report also shows the drives should have been immediately reviewed for foreign intelligence purposes, but were not. The FBI also obtained intelligence reports discussing purported communications between Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), who was chairwoman of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the time, and two different individuals who worked for the Soros Open Society Foundations. The intelligence reports alleged that the Obama administration took efforts to scuttle the investigation into Clinton and protect her candidacy. The DOJ OIG Clinton annex shows Comey, McCabe and Strzok, among others, did not make serious investigative efforts to determine the veracity, or lack thereof, regarding the intelligence reports. On July 5, 2016, Comey exonerated Clinton in a public statement regarding the investigation and recommended DOJ take no legal action to hold her accountable. Grassley’s oversight revealed Comey planned to exonerate Clinton even before interviewing her.
Newly Declassified DOJ Watchdog Report Shows FBI Cut Corners in Clinton Email Investigation |...
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Hillary Clinton
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Cut corners ? How about a massive cover up of Secretary Clintons unlawful conduct and mishandling Classified Information on a massive level. If any of us had done the same thing We would have gone to prison. Comey Himself is a disgusting example of an FBI Director owned by corrupt politicians.
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Lt Col Charlie Brown
Just as you said, if any military person had done what Hilary Clinton did, they would be in prison for a very long time.
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MSG Thomas Currie
I really loved the official DOJ statement that Clinton was apparently too stupid to understand any of the security briefings that she signed off as having attended or read and therefore did not know she had a responsibility to keep secret information secure.
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All of this is horrible. Comey vindicated Clinton then Weiner’s lab top ended up in New York City police custody due to Weiner sending dick pics of himself to under age girls. Yes there was classified material on the computer NYPD did not have anyone with adequate credentials to review. Comey was slobbering to lick Democrats boots.
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Grassley’s framing of the Clinton investigation oversimplifies what the DOJ Inspector General and FBI records actually show. The OIG’s 2018 report—spanning over 500 pages—did not find political bias or intentional negligence in the handling of the Clinton email case. It found procedural inconsistencies and judgment errors, but no evidence that those decisions were driven by partisan motives.
Comey’s decision to announce the closure of the case publicly was in fact criticized by the OIG as a breach of Department norms—done without DOJ authorization and damaging to both Clinton and institutional credibility. That contradicts the idea of deliberate leniency.
As for the thumb drives and “foreign intelligence” claims, the record shows those drives contained email copies already reviewed through other channels. FBI forensics confirmed the contents were duplicates, and there was no suppression of foreign intelligence leads—simply a lack of corroboration that justified additional resource expenditure.
Comparing this investigation to the Trump-Russia probe is also misleading. The Clinton case was a completed, document-based investigation of mishandling procedures; the Russia probe was a counterintelligence case involving foreign interference, governed under different authorities. The notion that one was “full-throated” and the other “negligent” ignores the fundamentally different investigative mandates.
If anything, both episodes reveal institutional imbalance—how the FBI’s leadership decisions can skew political perception even when internal findings don’t support bias. That’s the nuance Grassley’s narrative omits.
Comey’s decision to announce the closure of the case publicly was in fact criticized by the OIG as a breach of Department norms—done without DOJ authorization and damaging to both Clinton and institutional credibility. That contradicts the idea of deliberate leniency.
As for the thumb drives and “foreign intelligence” claims, the record shows those drives contained email copies already reviewed through other channels. FBI forensics confirmed the contents were duplicates, and there was no suppression of foreign intelligence leads—simply a lack of corroboration that justified additional resource expenditure.
Comparing this investigation to the Trump-Russia probe is also misleading. The Clinton case was a completed, document-based investigation of mishandling procedures; the Russia probe was a counterintelligence case involving foreign interference, governed under different authorities. The notion that one was “full-throated” and the other “negligent” ignores the fundamentally different investigative mandates.
If anything, both episodes reveal institutional imbalance—how the FBI’s leadership decisions can skew political perception even when internal findings don’t support bias. That’s the nuance Grassley’s narrative omits.
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