Tensions are high inside the FBI and the Justice Department over the handling of the probe into Hillary Clinton’s emails and the Clinton Foundation, according to a report released Sunday night.
"The new investigative effort, disclosed by FBI Director James Comey on Friday, shows a bureau at times in sharp internal disagreement over matters related to the Clintons, and how to handle those matters fairly and carefully in the middle of a national election campaign," writes Devlin Barrett of The Wall Street Journal. "Even as the probe of Mrs. Clinton’s email use wound down in July, internal disagreements within the bureau and the Justice Department surrounding the Clintons' family philanthropy heated up, according to people familiar with the matter."
The crux of the feud is twofold according to the Journal. The first is between the Justice Department and the FBI and the second is between FBI agents and senior law-enforcement officials, including Comey and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.
The FBI on Friday announced it would review additional emails relating to Clinton’s case after agents found emails on a laptop shared by former Congressman Anthony Weiner and his wife Huma Abedin, a top Clinton aide.
The news rocked the presidential race just 11 days ahead of the election.
The Journal reports that the feud stems back to the FBI's investigation into financial crimes and influence peddling within the Clinton Foundation, a probe halted by senior law-enforcement officials because of skepticism of the "strength of evidence."
Agents were also upset with the refusal by prosecutors to grant them access to the "emails contained on nongovernment laptops that had been searched as part of the Clinton email case."
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