Breaking : DOJ Insp find Comey defied authority as FBI Dir by ignoring Obama's DOJ.

[sunonmars]

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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.

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.

"What is taking so long with the Inspector General's Report on Crooked Hillary and Slippery James Comey," Trump said on Twitter. "Hope report is not being changed and made weaker!"

There is no indication the president has seen – or will see – a draft of the report before its release. Horowitz, however, could revise the draft report now that current and former officials mentioned in it have offered their responses to the inspector general's conclusions, according to the sources.

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.

The draft of Horowitz's wide-ranging report specifically called out Comey for ignoring objections from the Justice Department when he disclosed in a letter to Congress just days before the 2016 presidential election that FBI agents had reopened the Clinton probe, according to sources. Clinton has said that letter doomed her campaign.

Before Comey sent the letter to Congress, at least one senior Justice Department official told the FBI that publicizing the bombshell move so close to an election would violate longstanding department policy, and it would ignore federal guidelines prohibiting the disclosure of information related to an ongoing investigation, ABC News was told.

But 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."

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

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Report expected to say Comey deliberately hurt Hillary Clinton's campaign.

[exboyfil]

1. And Trump blew him a kiss for doing it

Only in a Bizarro world would you use for justification for firing your compliant tool who took out your opponent that does not now go along with your criminal requests.

[yallerdawg]

2. It's NOT her emails?

It's the jackass who sank her campaign?

[Clarity2]

3. This is just a way to justify comeys firing

But he said it to Lester Holt and the russians in the oval office. It was that rusher thing.

They do not give a damn about Hillary.

And Im still not sure I trust Rosenstein.

[sunonmars]

4. it completely undermines what Trump said were his reasons for firing Comey.

[NewJeffCT]

6. This week's explanation

Wasn't one of his initial public reasons because of the way he handled the Clinton case (because he thought it would help him win over Democrats)

Then, he later admitted to Lester Holt and the Russians that it was because of the Russian investigation

[underpants]

5. Yeah this isn't good.

Forget the details - the MSM (and God KNOWS the right wing part of it) will pile this on.

[Freethinker65]

7. Pretty sure it was leaked to someone in GOP and that pressured Comey directly/indirectly

Is that why Chaffetz resigned??? Is that why Gowdy is not running again? How about Ryan? Someone leaked it to Giuliani? ...

I think Comey felt he had to get ahead of another anti-Hillary rumor mill from the FBI. You know any of the above, or more, would gladly have leaked the possibility of reopening an investigation of Clinton based on Weiner's computer to hobble her campaign and its message.

[duforsure]

8. He's trying to criminalize

Both Comey and Hillary. And probably pressured the IG to do it or else .

[DURHAM D]

10. and Loretta Lynch

[still_one]

9. The truth is Comey interfered with the election

He is now hero