The hits keep coming. Amid controversies surrounding Jeffrey Epstein and Tulsi Gabbard’s Trump-Russia investigation, an odd new window was thrown open Monday into the FBI’s ill-fated “Midyear Exam” investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private email server. Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley R-Iowa) announced the declassification of a classified appendix to Justice Department
Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s 2018 report into the FBI’s handling of the email probe.
It’s a long-awaited release of 35 pages of curious-to-alarming classified details from the Clinton email investigation.* There will be groans that this is another rehash of “But her emails!”, but the IG annex is a
significant new angle, and about a lot of things, not just Hilary Clinton. The report focuses on a previously-undisclosed inquiry into eight thumb drives of material from a source called “T1.” This source delivered reams of correspondence from American officials purloined by a foreign (likely
Russian) intelligence service, as well as analytical documents in Russian.
Horowitz was circumspect about their provenance: Beginning in [redacted], the FBI obtained [redacted] thumb drives from a source known as T1… These thumb drives primarily contain data exfiltrated by [redacted] from various U.S. victims, including the Executive Office of the President (EoP), the State Department, the U.S. House of Representatives, other federal agencies, and private sector and federal institutions…
The FBI’s apparent failure to investigate a serious breach of official correspondence, all the way up to the President’s office, seems the most important revelation. Former Grassley aide and chief counsel to
the Judiciary Committee Jason Foster, now of Empower Oversight, said these releases compared the FBI’s handling of Midyear Exam to a foundering ship.
“They’re not just ignoring the hole in the hull,” Foster said. “They’re on purpose looking in the other direction, not even investigating how much water is coming in.”…
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