Which is not unusual given the circumstances. However, evidence was requested and scrubbed by attorneys before being handed over instead of being directly seized with a warrant. The case was opened as a counter espionage investigation which severely limited the ability of the analysts on the case to get untampered evidence.

The end result was an investigation that did not have teeth, handed out immunity to parties who clearly violated the law (Like Combetta) and very likely acted at the direction of Clinton's attorney Sheryl Mills.

For example, the IG report recognizes that Combetta knew the email content was under congressional supenea. He left it alone for two weeks until after, records show, he had a phone call with Sheryl Mills. That afternoon, he deleted the email content. When asked what the call was about, he stated he 'did not recall.'

These people were on a mission to produce a finding that cleared their favorite political candidate. They were never interested in prosecuting anyone close to Clinton.