2016 ELECTION/FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/JAMES COMEY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT: “Former FBI Director James Comey is about to get dinged in an internal Justice Department review of the agency’s Clinton email probe, and President Donald Trump says he can’t wait. The Justice Department informed the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday the report will be released on June 14. How both sides will likely spin the findings in their favor…The Justice Department’s inspector general is widely expected to criticize Comey and other senior leaders for their handling of the investigation into whether Hillary Clinton mishandled classified information as secretary of state. The Associated Press reported some of the anticipated findings last month, including that FBI officials didn’t move quickly enough to review a trove of emails late in the 2016 campaign. Those emails were found on a laptop belonging to former Rep. Anthony Weiner, the onetime husband of top Clinton aide Huma Abedin. Of particular interest is Comey’s bombshell announcement two weeks before the 2016 election that the agency was reopening the Clinton email probe after stumbling upon the new material. It wasn’t until two days before the election that the FBI announced, for a second time, it would not recommend criminal charges against Clinton.”
-Anne Flaherty, “Here’s how both sides will spin the Comey IG report,” The Associated Press, June 7, 2018 2:15 pm