Sara Carter: Second Inspector General Report Expected Next Month

TOPIC:  CLINTON EMAIL SERVER

by Sharon Rondeau

(Apr. 25, 2018) — On Wednesday night’s edition of “Hannity,” investigative journalist Sara A. Carter, who appears to have reliable sources within Congress and the U.S. Justice Department, stated that a second Inspector General’s report is expected to be released in May revealing the results of the FBI’s investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private, unauthorized email server to conduct government business.

Federal government employees are required by law to preserve all of their official communications and are discouraged from conducting business on private devices and through personal email addresses.

The New York Times was the first to report in 2015 that Clinton used the non-governmental server to carry out State Department business while she served as the top diplomat from February 2009 to February 2013.

Former FBI Director James B. Comey, who Trump fired last May 9, has been accused of closing the Clinton email server probe for political reasons and composing an exoneration memo long before FBI agents interviewed her about the server in early July 2016.

The Inspector General’s initial report found that Comey’s deputy, Andrew McCabe, “lacked candor” when answering questions posed by IG Michael Horowitz and other investigators in connection to a leak about the Clinton investigation to The Wall Street Journal.  Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired McCabe on March 16 just before he was to begin receiving a lifetime pension.

McCabe’s attorney has denied the report’s findings and said he is confident that the IG’s criminal referral to the U.S. Attorney for Washington, DC will not be pursued.

Another frequent guest on the program, former U.S. Attorney Joseph DiGenova, opined that Comey and McCabe are “in trouble” legally and that the FBI agent once in charge of the counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign’s possible “collusion” with Russian operatives, Peter Strzok, is cooperating with the Inspector General.

DiGenova added that Strzok’s paramour, FBI staff attorney Lisa Page, is likely cooperating with investigators and that therefore she and Strzok may not have to “lawyer up.”

Comey has been on an aggressive tour to promote his book, released on April 17, titled “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership” during which he revealed that he has retained three attorneys.

Comey has insisted, even to “friendly” interviewers such as CNN’s Anderson Cooper, that he did not illegally divulge classified information in releasing a memo to his friend, Daniel Richman, last year.  The seven memos he wrote of his encounters with Trump during the early days of the administration contain redactions when they were released to the public last week, purportedly of classified information.

Recent reports say that Richman was an unpaid “special government employee,” a factor Comey did not reveal in his June 8, 2017 testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee.  Richman is one of Comey’s three attorneys.

Comey appears to have provided the memos to another of his retained attorneys, former U.S. attorney Patrick Fitzgerald.

The Justice Department is reportedly investigating Comey for possible criminal activity in connection with his sharing of the memos.