Strassel Nails It

Business and Politics Review quotes several Tweets by The Wall Street Journal's Kimberley Strassel, who has covered the FBI-weirdness story from the beginning. Four key ones summarize what the DOJ IG actually found and reported.

4) Meanwhile this same cast of characters who the IG has now found to have made a hash of the Clinton investigation and who demonstrate such bias, seamlessly moved to the Trump investigation. And we're supposed to think they got that one right? #IGReport

5) Also don't believe anyone who says this is just about Comey and his instances of insubordination. (Though they are bad enough.) This is an indictment broadly of an FBI culture that believes itself above the rules it imposes on others. #IGReport

6) People failing to adhere to their recusals (Kadzik/McCabe). Lynch hanging with Bill. Staff helping Comey conceal details of presser from DOJ bosses. Use of personal email and laptops. Leaks. Accepting gifts from media. Agent affairs/relationships.

7) It also contains stunning examples of incompetence. Comey explains that he wasn't aware the Weiner laptop was big deal because he didn't know Weiner was married to Abedin? Then they sit on it a month, either cuz it fell through cracks (wow) or were more obsessed w/Trump.

All of that supports a judgment the IG Report cannot be dismissed as a nothingburger. There needs to be serious butt-kicking at the Bureau and DOJ. Each must try to rebuild the smoking wreck of its honor.