FOX News is reporting that a senior official in the Federal Bureau of Investigation said a “vast majority” of career investigators and attorneys in the bureau wanted Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton prosecuted.
According to the report, the decision to let Clinton “off the hook” for mishandling classified information on her unauthorized private email server has “roiled the FBI and Department of Justice.” FBI Director James Comey’s July 5 announcement that he would not recommend criminal charges “left members of the investigative team dismayed and disgusted.”
As FOX reported:
More than 100 FBI agents and analysts worked around the clock with six attorneys from the DOJ’s National Security Division, Counter Espionage Section, to investigate the case.
“No trial level attorney agreed, no agent working the case agreed, with the decision not to prosecute—it was a top-down decision,” said the source, whose identity and role in the case has been verified by FoxNews.com.
A high-ranking FBI official told Fox News that while it might not have been a unanimous decision, “It was unanimous that we all wanted her [Clinton’s] security clearance yanked.”
“It is safe to say the vast majority felt she should be prosecuted,” the senior FBI official told Fox News. “We were floored while listening to the FBI briefing because Comey laid it all out, and then said ‘but we are doing nothing,’ which made no sense to us.”
