Comey “Deviated” From FBI Norms In Clinton Probe, But “No Political Bias”, OIG Finds
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Thu, 06/14/2018
In what is likely to disappoint many on the right, Bloomberg reports that the Justice Department’s watchdog has reportedly found that while former FBI Director James Comey “chose to deviate from” the agency’s norms in his investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails, he wasn’t motivated by political bias.
“While we did not find that these decisions were the result of political bias on Comey’s part, we nevertheless concluded that by departing so clearly and dramatically from FBI and department norms, the decisions negatively impacted the perception of the FBI and the department as fair administrators of justice,” Inspector General Michael Horowitz said in the report’s conclusions, which were obtained Thursday by Bloomberg News.
Eight days ago, ABC reported that Comey “defied authority” several times while he was director of the FBI, citing sources familiar with the draft of a highly anticipated OIG report on the FBI’s conduct during the Clinton email investigation.
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. -ABC
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