On January 12, 2017, the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) announced that it would examine the following issues: Allegations that Department or FBI policies or procedures were not followed in connection with, or in actions leading up to or related to, FBI Director James Comey’s public announcement on July 5, 2016, clearing Hillary Clinton of criminal responsibility for her grossly negligent mishandling of national security information on her unsecured private email server, and the Director’s letters to Congress on October 28 and November 6, 2016, by which he re-opened and then promptly re-closed the investigation, and that certain underlying […]