Republican Rep. Pete King of New York said he believes the forthcoming report from the Justice Department’s internal watchdog will show “devastatingly” the missteps from former FBI Director James Comey and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.
“The [inspector general] report, I think it’s going to show devastatingly, it will show improprieties here by Director Comey and the way he proceeded, and also Andrew McCabe, at the very least, plus the two love birds,” King told Fox News on Tuesday.
The “two love birds” King referenced are FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, who were engaged in an extramarital affair and were found to have exchanged derogatory messages about President Trump before the 2016 election.
Page resigned from her post at the bureau last month.
The Justice Department’s inspector general has been working on a report examining the FBI and Justice Department’s handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.
The highly anticipated report is expected to be made public June 14 and run several hundred-pages long.
In a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley last week, Inspector General Michael Horowitz said the report will be released once review processes and classification are finished. But he told Grassley, R-Iowa, “most of this process is now complete.”
