WHAT HAVE WE HERE? – AT 11:53 A.M. ET:   Whenever I hear "personal reasons" I wonder just how personal the reasons are.  From Daily Caller: 

The Department of Justice official who interviewed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as part of the investigation into her emails is leaving the agency, he announced on Wednesday.

David Laufman, who leads the DOJ’s counterintelligence division, is leaving the DOJ for “personal reasons,” according to The Washington Post.

In addition to working on the investigation into Clinton’s handling of classified information, Laufman has also worked on the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

On the Clinton investigation, he sat in on interviews with the former secretary of state and several of her aides, including Cheryl Mills, Huma Abedin and Jake Sullivan.

He was joined in those interviews by Peter Strzok, the FBI agent who is currently embroiled in a scandal over politically charged text messages.

COMMENT:  One gets the feeling that the Republican investigators in Congress are, slowly but surely, getting to the heart of some very strange behavior that occurred during the Obama administration.  A key question is how much Obama knew.  I think Trey Gowdy and Devon Nunes will find out.

February 8, 2018