Newly recovered FBI texts raise further questions about Clinton investigation

Federal investigators said Thursday that they had found at least some of the missing text messages between two FBI officials, as Republicans raised more questions about anti-Trump bias at the government’s chief law enforcement agency.

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz told Congress that his investigators had managed to recover messages between FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page, who were both ousted from the investigation into Russian meddling in the U.S. election.

Republicans had wondered how the messages disappeared — particularly after another batch between the reported lovers revealed a number of curiosities about the investigations of 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican candidate Donald Trump.