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FBI report: Anti-Trump texts 'cast a cloud' over email probe
Employees exchanged political commentary as election unfolded
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Part of the the Department of Justice Inspector General's report after its release in Washington Thursday. The report documented in painstaking detail one of the most consequential investigations in modern FBI history and revealed how the bureau, which for decades has endeavored to stand apart from politics, came to be entangled in the 2016 presidential election. - photo by Associated Press
WASHINGTON — As the FBI investigated both candidates running for president in 2016, two FBI employees exchanged thousands of personal texts and messages that included a running political commentary — including newly released messages in which one of them expressed a desire to "stop" the election of Donald Trump.
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