Let's zero in some more (and hope that the identities of Agents 1 and 5 are revealed) [bolding mine]:
Agent 5 sent an instant message to Agent 1 on February 9, 2016, griping about the Midyear [Clinton investigation] work she was being given to do. Agent 1 messaged back to commiserate: “Yeah, I hear you. You guys have a ****ty task, in a ****ty environment,” he wrote. “To look for something conjured in a place where you cant find it,
for a case that doesnt matter and is predestined.”
It’s bad enough that a lead agent on the Clinton case was convinced the outcome was “predestined,” but there’s more in Agent 1’s description of the culture they were operating in: “DOJ comes in there every once in awhile and takes a wishy-washy, political, cowardice stance. Salt meets wound. That is the environment love. Can’t sugar coat it.” At least he followed by telling his girlfriend to “do the best you can.”
That sounds like a frank and honest description of a politically skewed shop. But when asked about that message, Agent 1 had another message altogether for the IG: “I have no information that [the Clinton investigation] was a pre-determined outcome by anyone.” No, of course not.
https://www.weeklystandard.com/eric...-texted-about-the-clinton-email-investigation
