Justice Department inspector general and FBI director get ready for the Senate hot seat at hearing over report that fingered biased anti-Trump investigators and ‘totally destroys James Comey’
DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz and FBI Director Christopher Wray will come before a Senate committee on Monday for a grilling
Horowitz released his review into then-FBI Director James Comey’s handling of the Clinton’s email use on Thursday
Report was critical of James Comey, saying he deviated from established norms
Wray immediately defended the FBI and dismissed the idea that the agency was sternly anti-Trump
Trump tweeted on Saturday that the report ‘totally destroys James Comey’ and called this ‘a dark and dangerous period in American History’
By DAVID MARTOSKO
DAILYMAIL.COM
18 June 2018
Republican lawmakers will have a chance Monday to vent their outrage over last week’s Justice Department report that heaped blame on anti-Trump FBI agents but argued that their political biases didn’t affect their jobs in 2016.
DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz and FBI Director Chris Wray will field questions from members of the Senate Judiciary Committee in the afternoon, responding to Thursday’s political bombshell.
Horowitz’s report offered a pointed condemnation of former FBI chief James Comey, calling him ‘insubordinate’ for shutting out then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch from details of the Bureau’s probe into Hillary Clinton’s classified email scanda.
The report also referred five FBI employees for disciplinary action after analyzing anti-Trump text messages between Special Agent Peter Strzok and agency attorney Lisa Page.
Horowitz wrote that Strzok and Page shared their personal animus toward the president, and other FBI personnel openly rooted for Clinton to win the White House, behavior that ‘potentially indicated or created the appearance that investigative decisions were impacted by bias or improper considerations.’
But ultimately, the report concluded, there was no hard evidence those biases changed any outcomes.
Trump tweeted on Saturday: ‘The IG Report totally destroys James Comey and all of his minions including the great lovers, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, who started the disgraceful Witch Hunt against so many innocent people. It will go down as a dark and dangerous period in American History!’
Part of the report revealed that FBI agent Peter Strzok and colleague Lisa Page, who were linked romantically, exchanged text messages vowing to ‘stop’ Trump from becoming president.
Strzok was one of the lead investigators involved in the Clinton email case, and at one pointed worked on the still ongoing Russia investigation, before he was taken off that team.
Comey, according to Horowitz, wrongly deviated from established FBI norms in announcing the completion of the Clinton investigation without looping the attorney general in.
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