Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz said Monday that his office received a referral from the FBI about the disclosure of memos written by former FBI Director Jim Comey to the press.
He was asked about the memos — and particularly whether there was an investigation into whether their release transmitted classified information inappropriately — by Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) during a committee hearing.
“We received a referral on that from the FBI. We are handling that referral and we will issue a report when the matter is complete, consistent with the law and the rules — a report that is consistent and takes this into account,” Horowitz said.
Horowitz and FBI Director Christopher Wray were in front of the Senate committee to discuss an inspector general report issued last week on actions Comey and others took in the lead-up to the 2016 election, mainly pertaining to the Hillary Clinton probe.
The existence of memos Comey wrote documenting certain interactions with President Trump were disclosed to the New York Times via a friend of the former FBI director. Comey has denied leaking classified information, arguing that the memos in question were unclassified.
And because this asshole is clearly on the take or otherwise compromised, his report on this subject will entirely ignore that Comey was an Original Classification Authority at the time.
What’s his fucking motive? He on the Derschowitz Bus to Zionlandia or some shit?
I’m starting to get A bad feeling about this. While the IG fairly criticized Comey, I think the essays Josh has written about the gaping holes in the report not examining anti-Hillary bias are disgusting.
People in charge of stuff (like I don’t know, maybe the FBI and CIA and such) shouldn’t be allowed to watch Fox News. At least, they shouldn’t be allowed to run stuff if they’re face down in the Kool Aid. Idk…smh…
I think Trump has his little, tiny finger prints all over the IG reporting.
So, you can say there’s an investigation about the release of Comey’s memos because there was a referral from the FBI.
But, you can’t say whether there’s an OIG investigation into leaks to Giuliani or Nunes because … what? No referral? Ongoing criminal investigation? Just rather not talk about that because Trump might get mad and tweet at me?
That would be a great question for the IG.
And it isn’t just here that the Nunes strategy determined the outcome. Looking at the polling, it is pretty clear that the obstruction machine is winning the day. The problem is that the GOP, along with FOX, has preemptively discredited anything in the Mueller report in the minds of the radical Trumpista minority.
No matter what happens, I really don’t want to spend the next decade with Trump as a Reaganesque martyr figure who still dominates the media with his tweets, even if they come from inside a minimum security prison. Although that last point would be okey dokey.