The Justice Department inspector general’s decision in January to open an investigation into the FBI’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation was met with widespread praise from Democrats.

“My reaction is that it’s entirely appropriate and very necessary but also not surprising,” Clinton campaign press secretary Brian Fallon told MSNBC on Jan. 12, the day that inspector general Michael Horowitz announced the investigation.

“I welcome it,” Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin said the same day.

“I support what they’re doing. It’s long overdue.”

But nearly a year later, Democrats are much less enthusiastic about Horowitz’s probe.

The change of heart is due to the revelation that one of the top investigators on the email investigation sent politically-charged text messages to his mistress, an FBI lawyer. – READ MORE