OPINION - EDITORIAL
James Comey’s road to disgrace
By Post Editorial Board
August 29, 2019 | 7:17pm
Former FBI Director James Comey
AP
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report Thursday slammed former FBI chief James Comey for abuses committed at the end of his career, after he’d been fired. But the ugly truth is that Comey started going wrong long before then.
This report focuses on one narrow topic: Comey’s abuses of memos he wrote on the job, recounting work-related conversations with President Trump.
The wrong wasn’t in writing them, or sharing them with a few top aides. It was in, 1) keeping his own copies of what were clearly official FBI records after he’d been fired, in blatant violation of FBI policy and his Employment Agreement. And in then, 2) improperly sharing them, including leaks to the press, to serve his personal interests.
Not the public interest, not even if you think the public was served by Comey’s claimed goal of forcing the appointment of a special prosecutor to take over the Russia investigation. As the IG notes, “Comey had several other lawful options available to him to advocate for the appointment of a Special Counsel.”
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READ MORE: https://nypost.com/2019/08/29/james-comeys-road-to-disgrace/
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That left him continuing to cover for that conspiracy even after Trump took office — playing along with the “intelligence briefing” charade that led to the publication of the Steele Dossier’s most salacious lies about Trump as well as deceiving the president about whether he was the actual target of the entire investigation.
It’s clear Comey convinced himself he was completely justified and honorable, each misstep of the way. By the time he was fired, he’d lost all perspective — so that a man whose job had long involved tracking down illegal leakers opted to turn leaker himself.
If he weren’t still so incredibly full of himself, he’d be a fit object of pity.
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