DOJ watchdog finds James Comey defied authority as FBI Director

[easyt65]

"The Justice Department's internal watchdog has concluded that James Comey defied authority at times during his tenure as FBI director...

....the draft report explicitly used the word "insubordinate" to describe Comey's behavior.

In the draft report, Inspector General Michael Horowitz also rebuked former Attorney General Loretta Lynch for her handling of the federal investigation into Hillary Clinton's personal email server...

...in backing Trump's ultimate decision to fire Comey last year, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein slammed Comey's letter to Congress and said it "was wrong" for Comey "to usurp the Attorney General's authority" when he announced in July 2016 that the FBI would not be filing charges against Clinton or her aides.

"It is not the function of the Director to make such an announcement," Rosenstein said in a letter to Trump recommending Comey be fired. "At most, the Director should have said the FBI had completed its investigation and presented its findings to federal prosecutors."

Horowitz's draft report cited Comey for failing to consult with Lynch and other senior Justice Department officials before making his announcement on national TV. While saying there was no "clear evidence" that Clinton "intended to violate" the law, Comey insisted the former secretary of state was "extremely careless" in her "handling of very sensitive, highly classified information."

In doing so, Comey admitted, by definition of the law, Hillary had committed crimes.


"Horowitz's draft report went on to criticize senior FBI officials, including Comey and fired FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, for their response to the late discovery of a laptop containing evidence that may have related to the Clinton investigation.

Representatives for Comey, Lynch and McCabe declined to comment for this article. A spokesman for the inspector general's office also declined to comment."


WHERE THE HELL IS THE IG'S REPORT? THE LONGER TIME GOES BY THE IG REPORT IS NOT RELEASED THE MORE AND MORE IT STARTS TO SMELL LIKE ROTTEN FISH,LIKE SOMETHING IS BEING 'COOKED' / 'RIGGED' ... LIKE THE 2016 DNC PRIMARIES....




DOJ watchdog finds James Comey defied authority as FBI director, sources say

 

[iceberg]

whole lotta shit fallin today.

 

[TNHarley]

Does the IG have any authority in this? Or does he just report and let the dominoes fall where they may?

 

[easyt65]

Does the IG have any authority in this? Or does he just report and let the dominoes fall where they may?

He can recommend indictment, as he did with McCabe, while providing the summary of findings, to include crimes, but he does not have prosecutorial power.

 

[iceberg]

from the article:

One source told ABC News that the draft report explicitly used the word "insubordinate" to describe Comey's behavior. Another source agreed with that characterization but could not confirm the use of the term.

 

[JakeStarkey]

It is interesting the Alt Right are using a source that they consider as fake news, but so be it.

The ABC report says, "Comey has defended his decisions as director, insisting he was trying to protect the FBI from even further criticism and "didn't see that I had a choice."

"The honest answer is I screwed up a couple of things, but ... I think given what I knew at the time, these were the decisions that were best calculated to preserve the values of the institutions," Comey told ABC News. "I still think it was the right thing to do."

ABC indicates nothing in the former Director's actions reaches any level of criminal behavior.

That, of course, belongs to the WH staff and counsel and the President who have been lying steadily about the investigations of him and his people.

 

[JakeStarkey]

As far as the attacks on Comey, the correct reaction to that is the disbelief in the image below.

 

[bendog]

"The Justice Department's internal watchdog has concluded that James Comey defied authority at times during his tenure as FBI director...

....the draft report explicitly used the word "insubordinate" to describe Comey's behavior.

In the draft report, Inspector General Michael Horowitz also rebuked former Attorney General Loretta Lynch for her handling of the federal investigation into Hillary Clinton's personal email server...

...in backing Trump's ultimate decision to fire Comey last year, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein slammed Comey's letter to Congress and said it "was wrong" for Comey "to usurp the Attorney General's authority" when he announced in July 2016 that the FBI would not be filing charges against Clinton or her aides.

"It is not the function of the Director to make such an announcement," Rosenstein said in a letter to Trump recommending Comey be fired. "At most, the Director should have said the FBI had completed its investigation and presented its findings to federal prosecutors."

Horowitz's draft report cited Comey for failing to consult with Lynch and other senior Justice Department officials before making his announcement on national TV. While saying there was no "clear evidence" that Clinton "intended to violate" the law, Comey insisted the former secretary of state was "extremely careless" in her "handling of very sensitive, highly classified information."

In doing so, Comey admitted, by definition of the law, Hillary had committed crimes.


"Horowitz's draft report went on to criticize senior FBI officials, including Comey and fired FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, for their response to the late discovery of a laptop containing evidence that may have related to the Clinton investigation.

Representatives for Comey, Lynch and McCabe declined to comment for this article. A spokesman for the inspector general's office also declined to comment."


WHERE THE HELL IS THE IG'S REPORT? THE LONGER TIME GOES BY THE IG REPORT IS NOT RELEASED THE MORE AND MORE IT STARTS TO SMELL LIKE ROTTEN FISH,LIKE SOMETHING IS BEING 'COOKED' / 'RIGGED' ... LIKE THE 2016 DNC PRIMARIES....




DOJ watchdog finds James Comey defied authority as FBI director, sources say

By God that Comey SOB is done!

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

"The Justice Department's internal watchdog has concluded that James Comey defied authority at times during his tenure as FBI director...

....the draft report explicitly used the word "insubordinate" to describe Comey's behavior.

In the draft report, Inspector General Michael Horowitz also rebuked former Attorney General Loretta Lynch for her handling of the federal investigation into Hillary Clinton's personal email server...

...in backing Trump's ultimate decision to fire Comey last year, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein slammed Comey's letter to Congress and said it "was wrong" for Comey "to usurp the Attorney General's authority" when he announced in July 2016 that the FBI would not be filing charges against Clinton or her aides.

"It is not the function of the Director to make such an announcement," Rosenstein said in a letter to Trump recommending Comey be fired. "At most, the Director should have said the FBI had completed its investigation and presented its findings to federal prosecutors."

Horowitz's draft report cited Comey for failing to consult with Lynch and other senior Justice Department officials before making his announcement on national TV. While saying there was no "clear evidence" that Clinton "intended to violate" the law, Comey insisted the former secretary of state was "extremely careless" in her "handling of very sensitive, highly classified information."

In doing so, Comey admitted, by definition of the law, Hillary had committed crimes.


"Horowitz's draft report went on to criticize senior FBI officials, including Comey and fired FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, for their response to the late discovery of a laptop containing evidence that may have related to the Clinton investigation.

Representatives for Comey, Lynch and McCabe declined to comment for this article. A spokesman for the inspector general's office also declined to comment."


WHERE THE HELL IS THE IG'S REPORT? THE LONGER TIME GOES BY THE IG REPORT IS NOT RELEASED THE MORE AND MORE IT STARTS TO SMELL LIKE ROTTEN FISH,LIKE SOMETHING IS BEING 'COOKED' / 'RIGGED' ... LIKE THE 2016 DNC PRIMARIES....




DOJ watchdog finds James Comey defied authority as FBI director, sources say

By God that Comey SOB is done!

So is Trump, any day now, any day now.

 

[JakeStarkey]

on the best Presidents!

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

The avenger sharks are smiling.

DOJ watchdog finds James Comey defied authority as FBI director, sources say