lee wrote on Jun 15
th, 2018 at 5:04pm:
"Here's Why the Inspector General's Report Was Such a Blow to James Comey
"On Thursday, Comey faced a dark day of his own. An 18-month investigation by Inspector General Michael Horowitz delivered a devastating blow not only to Comey’s own legacy, but to the reputation of the FBI and the Justice Department as a whole in the mishandling of critical events in the 2016 presidential campaign centering on the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails.
The missteps were the result of bad judgment, not political bias, the inspector general found. Comey told investigators that he took unorthodox steps on his own, such as announcing the findings of the Clinton investigation in a remarkable press conference in July of 2016, because of what he saw as “the need to preserve the credibility and integrity of the [Justice] Department and the FBI.” But Horowitz found that the public impact of his actions was just the opposite.
“The decisions negatively impacted the perception of the FBI and the Department as fair administrators of justice,” the report concluded.
The blistering conclusions in the 500-page report are as notable for the source as for the substance. They came from a watchdog office known for many years for its dogged independence in probing abuses at the FBI and the Justice Department. President Donald Trump had lobbed some of the same accusations at Comey over the Clinton email investigation when he fired him as FBI director 13 months ago. But the president’s attacks were widely seen as a pretext that generated as much sympathy as scorn for Comey. The findings from the Justice Department’s own inspector general will not be dismissed so quickly, and they come at a time when public confidence in the FBI appears to be flagging, hurt in part by Trump’s relentless and often misleading attacks on the agency."
http://time.com/5313012/ig-report-fbi-james-comey/ the inspector general found. Comey told investigators that he took unorthodox steps on his own, such as announcing the findings of the Clinton investigation in a remarkable press conference in July of 2016, because of what he saw as “the need to preserve the credibility and integrity of the [Justice] Department and the FBI.” But Horowitz found that the public impact of his actions was just the opposite.
Not mentioned here was that the other option was to include the AG Loretta Lynch in the announcement and that because she was a democrat appointee that this would lead to the perception of political bias in the outcome.
IMO any reasonable person would see that this is very likely correct.
The finding on this point.
Quote:We concluded that Comey’s unilateral announcement was inconsistent with Department policy and violated long-standing Department practice and protocol by, among other things, criticizing Clinton’s uncharged conduct. We also found that Comey usurped the authority of the Attorney General, and inadequately and incompletely described the legal position of Department prosecutors
Part of the problem was that he had criticised Clinton ?
Yes he had usurped the authority of the AG but how could he include Loretta Lynch in the announcment after she had been involved in the airport meeting with Bill Clinton and investigated in the report ?
The other point seems to be warranted critisism.
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