By EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE
POLITICO
July 1, 2018
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz sought unsealing of the records in May, in order to allow him to publish some details from the filings in his report released earlier this month on alleged misconduct at the FBI and Justice Department prior to the 2016 presidential election.
Nearly 100 pages of filings from federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, show how investigators used a very broad search warrant in September 2015 to gain access to the email account of top Clinton adviser Jake Sullivan. The FBI told a federal magistrate judge that a July 2009 email forwarded to Sullivan’s personal Gmail account showed that “top secret” information including records related to sensitive satellite imagery likely resided on Google’s servers.