Report Finds Comey Defied Authority as FBI Director

[comradebillyboy]

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, the sources said.

On Tuesday morning, President Donald Trump complained of "numerous delays" in the release of Horowitz's final report, which is expected to run several hundred pages long and be released in the coming days. The sources who spoke to ABC News were willing or able to address only a portion of the draft report's complete findings.

Almost from the start, the long-awaited report was expected to chastise Comey for his handling of the Clinton-related probe. But in apparently describing Comey's defiance of authority, the draft report was criticizing a man who prided himself on his leadership style at the FBI and has since dedicated his post-government life to promoting a new generation of effective leaders.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/doj-watchdog-finds-comey-defied-authority-fbi-director/story?id=55670834

[lapfog_1]

1. somebody here flipped on Faux last night

and Hannity was going nuts saying that the IG report would recommend charges for both Comey and McCabe.

[still_one]

2. You can bet your bottom dollar it was Nunes or some traitorous republican in Congress who leaked

SELECTIVE portions of that report, because it was Congress where it was sent


I only wish the worst possible things to happen to those republicans who are selling out our country

[Hortensis]

3. Spinning the story ahead of release.

The director of the FBI was just a well meaning idiot who always tried to do his best even if he was incapable of reading the ethical guidelines in the employee manual or of understanding them when his superiors and legal experts explained them to him. That's his story, and the media have been sticking with it.

"Defied authority." "Insubordinate."

And don't get suckered and distracted into thinking this is about Loretta Lynch. She's a Republican dog-whistle for "don't look at us, look at the Democrats, including this black female Democrat we've drawn a nice target on for you."

[RockRaven]

4. Horowitz has been IG since 2012, so presumably he's no Trump stooge...

but he's repeatedly been useful to Trump. I suppose any time you issue a several hundred page report, pundits and politicians will find convenient quotes to focus on.