If you hoped for a scathing and yet inconclusive report that would satisfy absolutely none of the partisan players claiming the FBI played favorites in the 2016 presidential election, Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz dropped exactly that last week. Basically, the IG found no evidence that the FBI intentionally acted to affect the outcome of the election, but that its staff and leadership behaved like rogue, politicized clowns.
And if that’s all we can agree upon, perhaps it’s enough to pull the plug on this excessively powerful internal security force that’s been playing at politics since its founding, writes J.D. Tuccille.
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