‘Political infection’: FBI blasted for failing even ‘due diligence’ while ‘investigating’ Hillary Clinton’s email scandal
Newly declassified documents about the supposed FBI “investigation” into Hillary Clinton’s email scandal, which developed while she was running her second failed campaign for the Oval Office, reveal that the FBI declined to follow even the most basic procedures, like “due diligence.”
Clinton’s email scandal involved her decision to set up a private email server in her home and then run national secrets through the unsecured machine. Then-FBI head James Comey abruptly announced during the campaign that the investigation was being shut down.
Now released are details from a previously classified appendix to DOJ inspector General Michale Horowitz’s 2018 report criticizing the FBI’s conduct.
BREAKING: Sen. Grassley just released the long-classified “Clinton Annex” (finally declassified by AG Bondi) which proves the Comey FBI exonerated Hillary of email server crimes DESPITE NEVER INVESTIGATING THUMB DRIVES w/ COMPROMISED CLASSIFIED EMAILS–inclg PRESIDENT OBAMA EMAIL
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) July 21, 2025
BREAKING: A newly declassified document reveals James Comey cleared Hillary Clinton of email server crimes without ever investigating key thumb drives containing classified emails—including messages from President Obama. pic.twitter.com/XDW1JYFn5r
— The General (@GeneralMCNews) July 21, 2025
Sen. Chuck Grassley just released a newly declassified annex from the 2018 DOJ/OIG report detailing disgraced former FBI director James Comey’s handling of Hillary Clinton’s illegal private email server.
The annex shows that Comey and his corrupt FBI underlings deliberately… pic.twitter.com/P4LVV0wvC3
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) July 21, 2025
It was just days after Comey’s announcement about Clinton came that the FBI launched its probe, now documented as based on fraud, into now-President Donald Trump and his campaign, an investigation called Crossfire Hurricane.
“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,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said as the appendix was released.
“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,” he said.
A report at Just the News said Comey was “swayed” to preemptively announce the end of the Clinton investigation, “and that the FBI failed to investigate thumbdrives containing potentially key information about use of an illicit private email server.”
Grassley confirmed in 2016 the FBI had “intelligence reports discussing purported communications” involving Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Florida Democrat who led the Democratic National Convention and others who worked for the Sorors Open Society Foundations.
Grassley suggested the intelligence reports alleged “the Obama administration took efforts to scuttle the investigation into Clinton and protect her candidacy” and there were no “serious” investigative efforts under the leadership of Comey, then-FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, an FBI agent later removed, and others.
The declassified documents confirm the FBI got various reports “purporting to discuss efforts to influence” that investigation.
The accusations included that Barack Obama’s attorney general, Loretta Lynch and Comey were interfering with the investigation.
In the new documents, it shows Horowitz wrote that Lynch had been in contact with a member of Clinton’s campaign to provide information and Comey, even though various reports were “not credible,” insisted on ending the investigation in that July.
Those ‘not credible” reports involved claims Russia was influencing the election in favor of Trump.
Comey handed Clinton a pass for her apparently chargeable violations of rules for handling classified information by claiming, “No reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.”
Horowitz already had explained Comey’s comments were “insubordinate,”
The documents show Sally Yates, then a deputy attorney general, claimed to not recall the dispute as the FBI documented.
She recalled, the documents show, some information as “fake intel” or lacking credibility.
The report said the FBI also failed to review key information about Clinton’s email scandal.
Grassley noted “the FBI obtained thumb drives from a source during the Clinton investigation” but that Comey, McCabe, Strzok, and others “failed to perform additional, targeted searches of the drives, even though they contained information relevant to the inquiry.”