I'll be watching for the lawsuit

If you’re looking for a Justice Department scandal regarding Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's influence of the 2016 election, it's hiding in plain sight. Look no further than the government's release of the private texts between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.

Both Strzok, an FBI counter-intelligence agent, and Page, an FBI lawyer, were involved in the 2016 investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server, and were both briefly on Mueller's team investigating Russia's influence of the 2016 election.

  Bloomberg

She's a lawyer herself. Won't need to waste money on one.

The inspector general’s investigation is ongoing. Perhaps more evidence will emerge that the privately held opinions of two investigators contributed to then-FBI director James Comey's decision in July 2016 not to charge Clinton with a crime. [...] Until charges are pressed and evidence is considered, however, Page and Strzok are owed some due process.

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This week, the Justice Department not only disclosed to Congress their private texts during an ongoing investigation, but then briefed their private texts to the media.

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When I asked Ian Prior, a Justice Department spokesman, about the due process rights of Strzok and Page, he said: "The Department ensures that its release of information from the Department to members of Congress or to the media is consistent with law, including the Privacy Act."

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If that is the case, then the Justice Department is in need of reform. Let's start with an obvious point. Publication of someone's private texts -- even if they are conducted on government phones -- is an astonishing breach of privacy.

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FBI officers and lawyers are American citizens with the same free speech rights as the rest of us.

I think they're going to start arguing that no one in the country has the right to any expectation of privacy. What privacy?  This is AMERICA!  You've got nothing to hide unless you're a terrorist.

Former assistant U.S. attorney Andrew McCarthy, a withering critic of the investigation into Trump, told me that he had problems with the way this case has been handled. "I think it's wrong that their texts have been massively released to the public,” he said. “I do think they should have been vetted so that only stuff that was relevant to whether there was bias in Mueller's investigation was sent to Congress. Congress is entitled to look at that, just as Mueller was entitled to look at that. But in an investigation, the public usually doesn't have a right to know about this until charges are brought."

Ah, but it's a brave new world.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.