Not Knowing Which Way to Jump

For John, BLUF:  As Manager Casey Stengel said, "Can't anybody here play this game?".  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Here is the rule (Hanlon's Razor):

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Internal Justice Department probe eyes McCabe’s role in final weeks of 2016 election

Via The Wash Post, by Devlin Barrett and Karoun Demirjian, 30 January 2018.

Here is the lede plus two:

The Justice Department’s inspector general has been focused for months on why Andrew McCabe, as the No. 2 official at the FBI, appeared not to act for about three weeks on a request to examine a batch of Hillary Clinton-related emails found in the latter stages of the 2016 election campaign, according to people familiar with the matter.

The inspector general, Michael E. Horowitz, has been asking witnesses why FBI leadership seemed unwilling to move forward on the examination of emails found on the laptop of former congressman Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) until late October — about three weeks after first being alerted to the issue, according to these people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter.

A key question of the internal investigation is whether McCabe or anyone else at the FBI wanted to avoid taking action on the laptop findings until after the Nov. 8 election, these people said.  It is unclear whether the inspector general has reached any conclusions on that point.

Hat tip to the Drudge Report.

Regards  —  Cliff