From: Steve Bannon PO Sent: 6/23/2018 12:44:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Fwd: Re: Attachments: image001.png; image002.png; image003.png; image004.png Importance: — High Big deal Begin forwarded message: From: "Rivkin, David" Date: June 23, 2018 at 8:14:49 AM EDT Subject: Fwd: Re: Here it is. | Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: From: "Grossman, Andrew M" Po Date: June 23, 2018 at 12:56:55 AM EDT To: "Rivkin, Davi Subject: Re: 9 e f e Mueller’s Fruit of the Poisonous Tree It makes no difference how honorable he 1s. His investigation 1s tainted by the bias that attended its origin in 2016. By David B. Rivkin Jr. and Elizabeth Price Foley June 22, 2018 6:38 p.m. ET 414 COMMENTS Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation may face a serious legal obstacle: It is tainted by antecedent political bias. The June 14 report from Michael Horowitz, the Justice Department’s inspector general, unearthed a pattern of anti-Trump bias by high-ranking officials at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Some of their communications, the report says, were “not only indicative of a biased state of mind but imply a willingness to take action to impact a presidential candidate’s electoral prospects.” Although Mr. Horowitz could not definitively ascertain whether this bias “directly HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026273