A highly anticipated report from the Justice Department’s inspector general is expected to condemn top officials at the FBI, including former FBI Director James Comey, for taking too long to review emails from Hillary Clinton ahead of the 2016 presidential election, according to a report.

Sources told the Associated Press the forthcoming report from the agency’s watchdog will criticize the FBI for not moving quickly enough and for its delay in obtaining a warrant to examine the emails found on a laptop belonging to former Rep. Anthony Weiner. Weiner, a New York Democrat, was married to top Clinton aide Huma Abedin, who had forwarded some of the messages to Weiner to be printed out. Others were on the laptop after being backed up from other devices.

Some FBI employees reportedly knew about the existence of the emails in September 2016, but did not get a warrant until October 2016. Just before the 2016 election, Comey told Congress the FBI was reviewing the messages.

[Report: FBI agents withheld new emails from Comey for weeks]

Comey then made a follow-up announcement on Nov. 6 that the FBI had been correct in deciding in July 2016 to recommend Clinton not face criminal charges for her handling of classified information.

Clinton has repeatedly blamed Comey for losing the presidency, citing his pre-election updates.

Comey wrote in his memoir A Higher Loyalty that he found out Weiner’s laptop might be relevant to the FBI’s investigation into Clinton’s email use at the beginning of October.

The former FBI director said the possible tie “made no sense" to him. Later in the month, however, FBI officials asked Comey for his permission to seek a warrant for the emails on Weiner's laptop.

The Justice Department’s internal watchdog has been investigating the FBI’s handling of its probe into Clinton’s email use since January 2017.

The report from the inspector general, Michael E. Horowitz, is also expected to denounce two FBI employees who sent text messages mocking President Trump while they worked on the Clinton email probe.

Horowitz has reportedly finalized a draft of the report. The final version is expected to be released next month.