The leaks have sprung!
Bloomberg is reporting this morning that the IG report will conclude that Comey damaged the FBI’s image of impartiality even though they aren’t ascribing political bias to his motives.
BREAKING: Comey “deviated” from FBI and DOJ procedures in handling the probe into Hillary Clinton, damaging the law enforcement agencies’ image of impartiality even though he wasn’t motivated by political bias, new IG report says. @cstrohm
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) June 14, 2018
Further, the report will also suggests that while Peter Strzok and Lisa Page exchanged anti-Trump texts, political bias didn’t effect their work:
IG: Peter Strzok & Lisa Page exchanged anti-Trump texts, BUT “we did not find documentary or testimonial evidence that improper considerations, including political bias, directly affected the specific investigative actions we reviewed"
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) June 14, 2018
Bloomberg reporter Jennifer Jacobs responded to Dennis’ tweet above with this blatant anti-Trump exchange between Page and Strzok, presumably from the report:
“Several FBI employees Who played critical roles in the investigation sent political messages,” IG report says.
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) June 14, 2018
It cites Lisa Page text to Peter Strzok: “(Trump’s) not ever going to become president, right? Right?!”
Strzok: “No. No he’s not. We’ll stop it.”
Wow. It’s going to be hard to convince people with texts like this that their biases against Trump didn’t affect their investigations. I’m not saying it did, but as I suggested, that’s pretty blatant.
Here’s more from Jacobs:
“Several FBI employees Who played critical roles in the investigation sent political messages,” IG report says.
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) June 14, 2018
It cites Lisa Page text to Peter Strzok: “(Trump’s) not ever going to become president, right? Right?!”
Strzok: “No. No he’s not. We’ll stop it.”
“Not the first time the (DOJ) and the FBI have conducted a politically-charged investigation and it will not be the last,” IG report says.
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) June 14, 2018
Policies are in place to “protect the institutions from allegations of abuse, political interference, and biased enforcement of the law.”
You can read the Bloomberg report here, but the last time I checked it didn’t include the text messages that Jacobs tweeted.