- A former FBI official who played a critical role in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation also helped relaunch the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email use as secretary of state,
- Peter Strzok, who was removed from Mueller's team last summer for making disparaging remarks about President Donald Trump, co-wrote the first draft of the letter Comey disclosed to the public just 11 days before the 2016 election.
- Republicans have frequently criticized Strzok for exhibiting anti-Trump bias.
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The FBI agent who sent anti-Trump texts was also behind the reopening of the Clinton email investigation
Peter Strzok, who played a critical role in the Russia investigation also helped relaunch the FBI's probe into Hillary Clinton's private email.
Peter Strzok, the counterintelligence veteran who has been at the center of Republicans' claims of bias at the FBI against President Donald Trump, also played a key role in the FBI's decision to reopen the investigation into Hillary Clinton's email use as secretary of state, just 11 days before the 2016 election, CNN reported Wednesday.
Coincidentally, Strzok played a key role in the crafting of that statement as well. The original draft of the July 2016 memo said that Clinton "was grossly negligent with respect to the handling of classified information." But Strzok later changed the memo's language to say Clinton's actions were "extremely careless" instead of grossly negligent.
Strzok played a critical role in the Russia probe
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During the same month that the FBI ended its initial investigation into Clinton's email use, the agency launched a separate investigation into Russia's election interference and possible collusion with the Trump campaign.
A day later, the DOJ's Inspector General Michael Horowitz announced that his office had recovered those texts.
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