Comey Defends His Actions After Damning Inspector General Report

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Minutes after the DOJ Inspector General’s report about the FBI’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email probe was released Thursday, former FBI Director James Comey published an op-ed in the New York Times defending his actions during the 2016 election.

“… The inspector general’s team concludes I should have adhered to established norms, which they see as mandating both deference to the attorney general on the public announcement and silence about an investigation so close to an election,” he wrote. “I do not agree with all of the inspector general’s conclusions, but I respect the work of his office and salute its professionalism.”

Along with mounting a defense of his own actions, he praised the part of the report that upholds the same conclusions he and his team came to: that Clinton did not commit a crime and that the FBI’s investigation was not politically motivated.

Read the op-ed here.

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  1. Clinton did not commit a crime and that the FBI’s investigation was not politically motivated.

    That’s the money statement for me. Who gives a shit about what Trump tweets? Don’t care one whit about Comey. He’s history.

  2. You fucked up, you trusted yourself. Own it.

  3. It’s Clinton’s belief that Comey talking about her emails 11 days before the election is what doomed her chances of winning, so he can say whatever he has to to live with himself. He’s the problem.

  4. “The inspector general’s team concludes I should have adhered to established norms…”

    Because if there’s anyone who upholds the sacredness of “established norms”, it’s the Trump administration.

  5. Horowitz should not be in the business of throwing bones to the GOP and their criminal mob-boss POTUS, but I’m reaching the point where I’ve concluded that’s precisely what he was doing.

    Has anyone had a chance to read through the report? Does it even deign to mention the pressure campaign from Giuliani and his ex-FBI leak-receptacles running True Pundit?

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