Does Comey deserve an apology? Not if you read the IG's report

The Hill ^ | 09/03/19 | Sharyl Attkisson

[yesthatjallen]

In July 2017, the Department of Justice’s inspector general (IG) began an investigation into whether former FBI Director James Comey improperly handled and shared government memos, including some containing classified information.

The IG’s now-issued report found Comey guilty of multiple violations and referred him for possible prosecution. The Justice Department declined to prosecute.

After the IG report was issued, Comey declared exoneration and asked for apologies via Twitter: “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.”

However, almost the entirety of the IG’s report consists of harsh criticism and denouncements of Comey’s violations of Justice Department, intelligence community and FBI policies, an executive order, and his own FBI employment agreement.

So why did Comey really do wrong? According to the IG:

Outside of the FBI office, Comey improperly used his personal safe and personal devices — including his laptop and printer — to create, revise, store and transmit memos about his conversations with President Trump.

These memos are government documents that belong to the public and require special handling. Some contained classified information. Comey improperly treated them as if they were personal memos.

Comey used his personal devices even though the FBI outfitted his home with a secure, controlled-access room — a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, or SCIF — designed for such purposes. The SCIF at Comey’s home contained a secure printer and a safe.

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[arthurus]

I suspect the DoJis still in the hands of the Establishment-DeeState-Obamanites. You can behead it but it still lives and fights for its life.

[NTHockey]

Unless and until these traitors are punished, behavior such as this will continue. If it is allowed to continue, the Republic is dead and our liberties will disappear.

[cymbeline]

Comey and others can use the excuse that such a horrible thing might happen to America, that they were duty- and conscience-bound to use extreme measures to stop it.

I’ll be charitable. They gambled and lost, and their ‘horrible thing’ wasn’t horrible. More likely, the alternative would have been horrible.

Too bad, Comey and the gang. You ended up on the losing side and broke the law as well. Your strategy going forward needs to be staying out of jail.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Looks like the Ohr’s will be the designated fall people. And as we have learned from recent history, these two will probably be killed by Arkancide prior to the court case.

[1Old Pro]

these two will probably be killed by Arkancide prior to the court case.

dead men don't talk, ask Jeffery Epstein.

[neverevergiveup]

He's so arrogant, narcissistic, and self-righteous that part of me wants him put into a pillory, naked, on the DC mall in front of the Washington Monument, and then let people just take turns walking up and slapping him on the a**.