“The Justice Department should apply at least as much scrutiny to its own former Director as it applied to the former Secretary of State,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley wrote in a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray. | AP Photo Grassley demands answers on Comey’s Gmail use at FBI

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley on Monday asked the Justice Department whether the FBI had obtained any material from James Comey’s personal devices, after the department’s watchdog reported last week that the former director at times used his private email account for work.

“The Justice Department should apply at least as much scrutiny to its own former Director as it applied to the former Secretary of State,” Grassley wrote in a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, referring to Hillary Clinton. “It is disturbing that FBI employees tasked with investigating Secretary Clinton, including the former Director, appear to have engaged in strikingly similar conduct. Although it does not appear as egregious and prolonged, they also used nongovernment systems for official work.”


The inspector general released a report last week that indicated that political bias did not affect decisions in the FBI’s 2016 investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server. The report, however, revealed that Comey conducted government business using personal email accounts and devices, in violation of FBI policy.

Comey said in the report that his use of personal email was "incidental" and that he always forwarded the work to a government account so a copy would exist in the FBI system.