The FBI Inspector General’s Report Has Bad News for Democrats, Too
The party is increasingly becoming the chief defender of the national surveillance state.
Two views of impeachment.
Photographer: Andrew Harrer/BloombergThe long-awaited report from the Justice Department’s inspector general on the origins of the FBI’s investigation into President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign is now public, and it finds that the initial investigation was deeply flawed but nonetheless justified. The senior officials and agents who opened the investigation, says the report, made serious mistakes but were not motivated by political bias.
Some Democrats, predictably, are claiming vindication. Some Republicans, just as predictably, are challenging its findings. Neither side is completely wrong — or right, for that matter — but the Democrats might want to show a bit more humility.