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1) Any prosecuted case having any direct involvement by Strzok, Priestap, McCabe, Comey, Lynch...potentially tainted. Add to that cases investigated but not prosecuted...evidence potentially tainted. It's a legal abomination.
2) The highest rungs of the FBI/DOJ/Excutive Branch involved in a plot to influence an election, then deny the Presidency to a duly elected candidate, and concluding with a plot to overthrow the Presidency...while committing various illegal maneuvers including illegal wiretapping, illegal unmasking, fraud/misrepresentation...potential major charges of RICO, Seditious Conspiracy & Treason. What entity could investigate this? IMO it's too big for a SC, plus it demands immediate attention so that an attempt can be made to restore confidence in the FBI/DOJ. And I cannot imagine the circus of public trials involving the big wigs. I've seen a number of tweets suggesting that the major players may be prosecuted via military tribunals = enemies of the state.
I've seen this bandied about as a justification for not attacking the FBI's wrongdoing. I think it is overblown. Strzok was counter intelligence, that's information gathering, not prosecuting crimes. It's kind of weird that he was even involved in the Hillary case in other than the related but tangential inquiry of whether her server or other unsecured devices were hacked during the relevant time frame.
Comey, as Director, wasn't a gumshoe who testified in court on cases DOJ prosecuted.
Page might be a problem but I'm not familiar with her court room activities, i.e. whether she was a lead prosecutor in DOJ.
Could some enterprising criminal attorneys attempt to have their clients' cases reopened under that theory? Sure. Will it be some kind of apocalyptic avalanche?? Not so much.
Besides, much of what Strzok, Page and Comey were doing was
obstructing justice to get people off, not crafting dishonest prosecutions.
The one exception is Flynn. Strzok was instrumental in his case. I will be curious to see what Flynn's attorneys will do in response to this information.