Posted on 08/29/2019 7:25:16 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Former FBI Director Jim Comey violated bureau rules and procedures in his handling of certain memos he drafted after his May 2017 firing, the Justice Department Inspector General said in a report released on Thursday.
The report said that both the memo he had handed over to a friend to be leaked to the press, as well as memos Comey shared with his attorneys, were improperly transmitted without seeking authorization from the FBI.
However, the Inspector General’s investigation found no evidence that “Comey or his attorneys released any of the classified information contained in any of the memos to members of the media.”
In the report, Inspector General Michael Horowitz said the violations came regardless of the memos’ classification levels because Comey failed to release the memos to the FBI after he was fired and failed to ask permission to retain them instead.
Comey tweeted a response after the report’s release, saying that he didn’t “need a public apology from those who defamed me, but a quick message with a ‘sorry we lied about you’ would be nice.”
James Comey ✔ @Comey DOJ IG "found no evidence that Comey or his attorneys released any of the classified information contained in any of the memos to members of the media." I don’t need a public apology from those who defamed me, but a quick message with a “sorry we lied about you” would be nice.
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The Inspector General also knocked Comey for not informing the FBI that he had shared a memo with his attorneys when the FBI informed him that parts of the memo were being retroactively classified.
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He will never go to jail...the DOJ and FBI have been corrupt for Thirty years..bet on ith
Full Report
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Skating away.
We already knew this when the DOJ refused to prosecute him.
In other words nothing will happen.
"Jim, I'm sorry you're not in jail."
So there was a reason he was fired. Well I’ll be...
Who would ever have thought...
Labor Day news dump of this magnitude? Unbelievable? Nope. Par for the coup course.
The DOJ IG clean up team “found no evidence” because 1) they didn’t look or 2) allowed Comey years to destroy the evidence.
I think more than 30 years.
November 22, 1963 and days and hours leading up to that infamous gunshot may have been the real kickoff to the utterly corrupt agencies today.
I thought he admitted leaking a memo to a friend in academia with instructions that it be given to the media.
He’s a guardhouse lawyer. He told his friend to release them to the media, so in that, the report is literally correct that HE didn’t release the info to the media. But properly, the charge should have been conspiracy to break national security laws regarding classified material. I wonder what info Comey has on the IG?
He walked...STICK A FREAKIN FORK AMERICA’S JUSTICE IS DONE!! BARR..swamp @$$hole!! Once again all the conservative talking head lawyers were absolutely wrong and blindsided!! This swamp monster is bigger and evil than we thought!
Trump should FIRE deep stater William Barr. He’s a damn bad as Sessions and thinks he’s immune from Trump criticizing him. Before the day’s out Trump should fire his sorry ass.
So.it 8s established that he committed a Felony.
it is up to Barr to determine whether to charge, right?
I thought he admitted leaking a memo to a friend in academia with instructions that it be given to the media.
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Yes, but he did not personally release it to the media. So, apparently, applying “Resistance logic,” he should get a medal.
Another swamper crawls away Scot free. FU, Bill Barr.
Confidence in federal law enforcement today has taken an enormous stumble,and I would agree....going back to 1963, there’s little doubt that some gov’t conspiracy existed to hide the facts after the JFK assassination. Same way for RFK. Same for MLK.
Maybe DOJ declined because Comey will be charged in something even worse!!!!!
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