DOJ IG says McCade sat on Weiner laptop revelations for a month before notifying Congress

Fox News:

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe knew of thousands of emails related to the Hillary Clinton private server investigation for at least a month before then-FBI Director James Comey informed Congress, The Wall Street Journal reported late Wednesday.

That lag is the subject of an investigation by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz as part of a wider probe into the FBI's actions prior to the 2016 election. The Washington Post was the first to report that McCabe was a focus of Horowitz's investigation.

The timeline of when the emails were discovered on the laptop of former Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner emerged in text messages between FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, the Journal reported.

McCabe left his position Monday ahead of his planned retirement, effective March 18. The Post reported Tuesday that McCabe had met with FBI Director Christopher Wray to discuss the inspector general's investigation prior to the announcement of his departure.

On Sept. 28, Strzok messaged Page that he had been "called up to Andy's office" earlier that day and told of "hundreds of thousands of emails turned over by Weiner’s [attorney] to sdny," a reference to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. Strzok added that the email cache "includes a ton of material from spouse," a reference to Weiner's then-wife Huma Abedin, a top adviser to Clinton.

However, the existence of the emails on Weiner's laptop was not made public until Oct. 28, when Comey informed Congress in a letter that the FBI was re-opening the Clinton investigation.

Strzok and two other agents spent the weekend before the Nov. 8 election sifting through about 3,000 emails from Weiner's laptop, the Journal reported. Early on the morning of Sunday, Nov. 6, Strzok texted Page that the team had found "no new classified" emails.
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Judicial Watch claims that at least 18 classified emails were found on Weiner's laptop.  This is a pretty blatant mishandling of classified materials.  Would Muller give Mike Flynn a pass on doing this?  Of course, he would not.  This is so much worse than what Flynn is charged with and yet McCade sat on it and Strzok also gave it a pass.  It is more evidence of how deeply the FBI's top leadership was in the tank for Hillary Clinton.