We have been waiting for the Office of Inspector General (OIG) report from the Department of Justice (DOJ) for a long time. It may have an anodyne title — "A Review of Various Actions by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice in Advance of the 2016 Election" — but the almost 600-page report will ripple through the body politic for months, probably years.

The scale of the report is incredibly broad. It ranges from calling fired FBI director James Comey ”insubordinate” in his handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s illegal private email server, to providing details of senior FBI agents texting one another with promises that they would prevent Donald Trump from becoming president.