Backfired: here’s why Trump’s DOJ just EXONERATED James Comey
The Inspector General has spoken, and former reality-show host Donald Trump will not be pleased. CBS:
An independent watchdog found that former FBI Director James Comey did not release classified information to the public, although he did violate agency policy by taking home unclassified memos and ensuring that they would be leaked to the press.
The Office of the Inspector General for the Justice Department investigated Comey for leaking his own memos describing conversations with President Trump to his friend, Daniel Richman, a professor at Columbia University’s law school. Richman then provided the contents of the memo to a reporter at The New York Times who wrote about it.
The inspector general said in an 83-page report that Comey “violated applicable policies” related to his FBI employment agreement and that the memos were official FBI records. The probe found that the memos Comey leaked contained confidential, but not classified, information.
In other words, Comey is exonerated of crimes.There was no evidence of criminal wrongdoing, and a need to circumvent FBI policies under extraordinary circumstances (read: a so-called president who was acting like a mob boss) — and all of Trump’s bluster (read: slander) about Comey has in effect backfired – even with his crony “Fat Bill Four-Eyes” Barr running the Justice Department.
Oddly, the IG report makes little mention of Trump attempting to interfere with the Department of Justice.
It’s important to remember that most Americans, when faced with a boss who threatens them and tells them to do something they know is wrong…
probably go ahead & do it without saying a word. They pray that they won’t get caught.
James Comey chose to follow the opposite path. https://t.co/YbHleeu52Q
— BLACKSTEM Global💡🔬🌼 (@BLACKSTEMUSA) August 29, 2019
We will let James Comey have the last word.
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.
— James Comey (@Comey) August 29, 2019
And to all those who’ve spent two years talking about me “going to jail” or being a “liar and a leaker”—ask yourselves why you still trust people who gave you bad info for so long, including the president.
— James Comey (@Comey) August 29, 2019
