A highly anticipated Justice Department inspector general report meant to 'investigate the investigators' behind the lengthy Russia probe will not conclude political bias drove decisions made by former FBI Director James Comey and former FBI lawyer Peter Strzok.

But IG Michael Horowitz has determined that some FBI officials were sloppy and unprofessional, The New York Times reported on Friday, giving President Donald Trump a hook to continue claiming ideologically slanted 'deep state' enemies twisted the law to secure wiretap orders against his onetime campaign adviser Carter Page.

Among the villains to emerge is Kevin Clinesmith, an FBI lawyer accused of altering an email that was part of an application for a warrant in a secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court. Clinesmith is now subject to criminal prosecution.

He was a minor player in the last inspector general saga, when Horowitz filed a nearly 600-page report about critical moments during the 2016 campaign and tjhe election's aftermath.

Clinesmith was referred to as 'Attorney 2' in that report, which described in detail anti-Trump text messages he sent to an unnamed lover while the campaign was in full swing.

A forthcoming report from the Department of Justice's inspector general will say that former FBI Director James Comey wasn't motivated by political bias when he was running the Russia investigation

Former FBI lawyer Peter Strzok will also get off the hook for showing political bias while charged with running the Russia probe, according to a forthcoming report from the Department of Justice's Inspector General

While some of President Trump's favorite people to pick on got off in the forthcoming report, a low level FBI lawyer may become a household name for altering an email used in documents to get a FISA warrant to surveil Trump campaign adviser Carter Page

Kevin Clinesmith is an FBI lawyer accused of altering an email that was part of an application for a warrant in a secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court; he was also the anti-Trump texter who shared his animus with his lover in messages that ended up in last year's DOJ inspector general report

North Carolina Republican Rep. Mark Meadows named Clinesmith during a public hearing in June 2018, over objections from the FBI.

Horowitz cautioned at the time that he had shielded certain names of people who worked in counterintelligence. Meadows responded that Clinesmith had 'long ago' left that field and worked for the FBI's general counsel.

The person named as Clinesmith in the 2018 report expressed his disdain for the incoming President Trump with the phrase 'Viva le resistance' and opined that then-Vice President-Elect Mike Pence was 'stupid.'

His lover texted back: 'Screw you Trump,' and added that Hillary Clinton 'better win ... otherwise i'm gonna be walking around with both of my guns.'

She also labeled Trump's supporters in Ohio 'retarded,' and in a fit of pique over being asked to work on Inauguration Day, she added: 'F*** Trump.'

Special Counsel Robert Mueller later fired Clinesmith for his anti-Trump bias, citing the lawyer's comment to another official after the 2016 that 'the crazies won finally.'

Reporters at the Times and other outlets hadn't seen a copy of the IG's report as of Friday, and were reporting on the basis of secondhand information.

The report is expected to be made public on December 9.

The Times also said Comey's former No. 2, Andrew McCabe, didn't show political bias at the helm of the Russia probe.

The Department of Justice's Inspector General Michael Horowitz will soon put out a report that looks at the conduct of FBI officials and their dealings with the Russia probe

These text messages were part of Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz's 2018 report on federal law enforcement officials' actions during and after the 2016 presidential election campaign; 'FBI Attorney 2' is Kevin Clinesmith, according to a Republican congressman who outed him during a public hearing

Kevin Clinesmith, the FBI lawyer accused of altering a document, will likely be made 'a household name,' according to a White House official, for showing anti-Trump bias

President Trump often tweeted about McCabe, pointing to a donation made to his wife's political campaign by former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a longtime ally of Bill and Hillary Clinton.

A White House official predicted Friday afternoon that the president would 'make Clinesmith a household name' in his political rallies the way he did Strzok and McCabe.

'This guy is probably toast,' the official said.

Horowitz's 2018 report cited Clinesmith the day after President Donald Trump's election telling an unnamed FBI employee in a text message: 'I am numb.'

'I am so stressed about what I could have done differently,' he added, complaining that the Bureau 'broke the momentum' of the Hillary Clinton campaign by restarting an investigation into her classified email scandal just days before the election.

Clinesmith bemoaned an imagined future Trump agenda and took a shot at the 'stupid' vice president-elect Mike Pence.

'I just can’t imagine the systematic disassembly of the progress we made over the last 8 years. ACA is gone. Who knows if the rhetoric about deporting people, walls, and crap is true,' he wrote.

'I honestly feel like there is going to be a lot more gun issues, too, the crazies won finally. This is the tea party on steroids. And the GOP is going to be lost, they have to deal with an incumbent in 4 years. We have to fight this again. Also Pence is stupid.'

And he fretted about his own career if Trump were to learn that he participated in an investigation of his campaign's alleged Russia ties.

'Plus, my god damned name is all over the legal documents investigating his staff,' Clinesmith texted. 'So, who knows[,] if that breaks to him[,] what he is going to do.'

Later in the month of November 2016, he sent an instant message to a different FBI employee, an attorney like him who sarcastically asked if learning how much some Trump campaign aides were paid had made him 'rethink your commitment to the Trump administration.'

'Hell no,' Clinesmith replied. 'Viva le resistance.'