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REUTERS
WASHINGTON
US House Republicans again blasted FBI agent Peter Strzok on Tuesday for disparaging Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign in text messages uncovered during an investigation of the FBI's handling of Hillary Clinton's email.
In the second congressional hearing this week on the topic, Republicans said the texts by Strzok, who worked on the Clinton probe and briefly on Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, raise questions about whether the American public can trust the FBI.
"There were FBI agents and attorneys who decided to prejudge the outcome of the Hillary Clinton case before the investigation ended ... and these exact same FBI agents and attorneys prejudged the outcome of the Russia investigation before it even began,"said Trey Gowdy, the chairman of the House of Representatives Oversight Committee.
Tuesday's hearing comes after Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz released a 500-page report last week on the FBI's missteps in handling the investigation of Clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.
The report faulted former FBI Director James Comey for announcing shortly before the 2016 US presidential election that he was reopening the Clinton investigation after new emails were discovered on the computer of disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner.
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