Eli Lake, Columnist

FBI Report Shows Leak Investigators Leak Like a Sieve

The inspector general’s office did not find political bias. But it did find deep irony.

June 14, 2018 at 10:38 PM UTC

Eli Lake is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering national security and foreign policy. He was the senior national security correspondent for the Daily Beast and covered national security and intelligence for the Washington Times, the New York Sun and UPI.

Warning: Approaching FBI. Irony ahead.
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In modern Washington, leaking is a bit like gambling at Casablanca. Everybody does it, but you never know when inspector Captain Renault is going to shut you down.

To understand this insight, I recommend reading Page 458 of the new Inspector General Report on the FBI's 2015-2016 investigation of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server. It says: "We have profound concerns about the volume and extent of unauthorized media contacts by FBI personnel that we have uncovered during our review."