Newly released internal FBI and Justice Department emails show two senior career prosecutors in 2019, during the first Trump administration , repeatedly discouraged an FBI agent from opening a criminal investigation into whether Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign and the Democratic National Committee improperly concealed payments that funded the Steele dossier .

The records were made public Thursday by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and include an FBI Electronic Communication dated July 2019 and email exchanges from June 5–21, 2019, involving Richard Pilger, then head of the DOJ Public Integrity Section’s election-crimes unit, and J.P. Cooney, who at the time served as chief of public corruption at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia

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