EDITORIAL_ The inspector general’s report makes Jim Comey’s FBI look terrible

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The inspector general’s report makes Jim Comey’s FBI look terrible

By Post Editorial Board
December 10, 2019 | 2:34pm




The US Justice Department's Inspector General Michael Horowitz's report.
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Jim Comey’s FBI comes off pretty bad in the long-awaited report from Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz, and the IG didn’t even look at much of “Crossfire Hurricane,” the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign and its possible links to Russia.

Yes, Horowitz says the FBI had adequate reason to open the case — but only because it has such a “low threshold” for opening counterintelligence investigations.

In this case, it was an Australian diplomat’s months-old memory of a vague conversation with low-level Trump-campaign adviser George Papadopoulos: The Aussie said the Yank had said a Russian had raised the possibility of handing over dirt on Hillary Clinton — which suddenly looked like a big deal in July 2016, as WikiLeaks was releasing embarrassing Democratic National Committee e-mails.

Yet the FBI took that as sufficient pretext to start looking hard at Papadopoulos and Carter Page, another peripheral adviser, as well as top Trump campaign figures Paul Manafort and Mike Flynn, as the likely conduits for any dirt to be passed.

We’d like to know who came up with the name “Crossfire Hurricane”: That highly dramatic label sure suggests the team was expecting something big.

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Nor did Horowitz look beyond the FBI, to the CIA and the Obama White House, each of which also had some involvement here.

The broader probe is in the hands of US Attorney John Durham, who has had to enlarge it into a criminal investigation, under the oversight of Attorney General Bill Barr.

And both Barr and Durham indicated Monday that they disagree with Horowitz’s finding that Crossfire Hurricane was properly opened, for starters.

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