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Any reasonable person would think we're finally done with the question of whether Senator Clinton,

Secretary Clinton, violated the law.

I mean, one thing that is not being stressed enough in this report is that there was no debate about this.

Among the dozens and dozens of people dealing with it, both the Department of Justice and the FBI,

this was an easy case of declining prosecution that it would have been a terrible deviation from history and from practice to do otherwise.

In particular, because rightly or wrongly, the folks at the State Department who were sending her these emails and her and she did not realize they contained classified information.

I'm Benjamin Wittis, and this is the LawFair podcast June 16, 2018.

This week, Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz released a gigantic report on the FBI's handling of the Clinton emails matter slash investigation during the 2016 election cycle.

It is a doozy, harsh, critical, and also validating in important respects.

And it has been received as a bit of a rorschach test with everybody seeing in it exactly what they want to.

We got together a group of people to talk about the whole report, not just the parts they want to talk about.

Quinta Juresick, LawFair's managing editor, Carrie Cordero, former Justice Department official and LawFair contributor, and Marty Lieterman of Just Security and the Georgetown Law School.

We talked about it all, and here it is. It's the LawFair podcast, Episode 321, all things Inspector General and emails.

All right, let's start with Gestalt reactions. This is a very large document, and it covers a huge amount of ground.

And I think the first 24 hours of reaction to it have certainly shown it to be something of a rorschach test.

But Carrie, get us started. What were your overall reactions to the Inspector General's report?

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