Federalist: A few hours into a House committee hearing Tuesday, Rep. Eric Swalwell asked Inspector General Michael Horowitz: “Do you agree that there is no evidence Jim Comey lied to you in your investigation?”

“We did not make any finding that he lied to us,” Horowitz answered.

Swalwell’s line of questioning was intended to summarize what the IG didn’t find—examples of improper prosecutorial decisions based on political biases revealed in text messages; definitive evidence that Hillary Clinton was guilty of a crime; or evidence that Comey leaked the existence of the Russia investigation—to set up his final question, which was, “Mr. Horowitz, do you think it’s time to move on past the Hillary Clinton emails?”

While Horowitz deflected that decision to Congress, his direct answer whether Comey lied was curious, in that his conclusion conflicts with facts and testimony detailed in his own report. Perhaps the most controversial issue the report examined was Comey’s late-October decision to notify Congress of new evidence that “may be pertinent” to the Clinton email investigation: thousands of Clinton emails found on Anthony Weiner’s laptop.

The notification came four months after Comey’s infamous July 5 press statement, in which he declared the investigation effectively closed, with no recommendation of criminal referral for Clinton to the Department of Justice. The October letter notified Congress the FBI was re-opening the investigation, and was received as if a grenade has rolled into the Clinton camp 11 days before voters went to the polls. more here