Every day in courtrooms across this country, intent is proven through words, actions, or some combination of both. Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz has testified that he could not establish that political bias motivated those at the heart of the FBI’s operation dubbed “Crossfire Hurricane,” the investigation into President Trump’s 2016 campaign. The records of both Crossfire Hurricane and the Mueller investigation show, however, that the only logical inference to be drawn from the series of contrasting treatments of different targets, glaring omissions, false court submissions, and mysterious failures is that there was political bias at the top of the FBI.

That bias motivated key decisions in a way that violates all our notions of fundamental fairness, a shocking corruption of our law enforcement and counterintelligence processes.