FBI botched investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails, declassified documents allege
'Comey’s decision-making process smacks of political infection,' Sen. Grassley said railing against the former FBI director
Newly declassified documents claim the FBI under James Comey reportedly neglected key evidence in the investigation of Clinton's email usage and classified information, Sen. Grassley reveals.
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21 Jul 2025 ~~ By Emma Colton
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman
Chuck Grassley released declassified documents related to the FBI's investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email server when she served in the federal government, revealing the FBI reportedly "failed to fully investigate" the matter.
"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," Grassley said in a Monday press release.
"Under Comey’s leadership, the FBI failed to perform fundamental investigative work and left key pieces of evidence on the cutting room floor," he continued. "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."
Clinton, who served as former President
Barack Obama's secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, was investigated by the FBI over claims she improperly stored or transmitted classified materials on a private email server. The
FBI advised the Department of Justice in 2016, ahead of that year's massive election that pitted Clinton against future President Donald Trump, that Clinton should not face prosecution over the matter.
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The documents claim that then-FBI Director Comey, as well as other FBI leaders, obtained thumb drives related to their investigation into Clinton, but that the agency failed "to perform additional, targeted searches of the drives," according to Grassley's office.
The thumb drives reportedly were never reviewed during the investigation, but "contained highly sensitive information exfiltrated from U.S. government agencies, including the Department of State, as well as then-President Barack Obama’s emails and, potentially, congressional information."
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Gabbard released unclassified documents Friday that reportedly show "overwhelming evidence" that then-President Obama and his national security team laid the groundwork for what would be the yearslong Trump-Russia collusion probe after Trump's election win against Clinton in 2016.
"Their goal was to usurp President Trump and subvert the will of the American people," Gabbard had posted to X on Friday regarding the criminal referral. "No matter how powerful, every person involved in this conspiracy must be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. The integrity of our democratic republic depends on it. We are turning over all documents to the DOJ for criminal referral."
Commentary:
A reasonable explanation for the behaviors of Comey and the FBI is that they were obliged to investigate Hillary. What was publicly known about her mail server, along with her extremely clumsy attempts to dismiss the controversy, made it impossible for the FBI to simply ignore it. So, they went through the motions, created the appearance of an investigation, but never really did the investigative work that would have been required to expose the full truth. They created plausible deniability for themselves, while still ensuring that nothing embarrassing or incriminating would stick to Hillary.
Some may remember the frantic shredding of documents by Huma Abedin, Jake Sullivan and Cheryl Mills at the U.S. State Dept., before they allowed the FBI to enter.
There's a systematic evolution of Democratic scandals. First, it is all lies, not rooted in truth whatsoever. Then, when it is clear there is substance to it, Democratic faithful will reluctantly admit that there may be some truth to it, but it is irrelevant and being exaggerated by the right. And when the evidence becomes overwhelming and impossible to refute, the common narratives are ‘this is old news’ and ‘this is all just a distraction’ and ‘nobody cares about this anymore’. Under no circumstance will they allow obedience to their political masters to be thwarted by scandal, no matter how obvious, heinous or egregious it may be.