James Comey wants an apology? This is myth becoming madness
By Jonathan Turley, opinion contributor — 08/29/19 03:00 PM EDT
Two years ago, former FBI Director James Comey came out with a book celebrating himself as a paragon of “ethical leadership,†a subject that he later taught at the College of William and Mary. Comey declared, “Ethical leaders lead by seeing above the short term, above the urgent or the partisan, and with a higher loyalty to lasting values, most importantly the truth.â€
If so, the new Justice Department inspector general report released Thursday establishes that Comey is the very antithesis of the ethical leader he described. He was found to have violated both federal law and regulations for his own short-term gain, and made decisions that put personal over institutional interests.
Nevertheless, Comey released a statement portraying the scathing report as a type of victory and encouraged his critics to send their apologies to him. It was a “Captain Queeg†moment when myth borders on madness. Rather than rave about who stole his strawberries, as Queeg did in “The Caine Mutiny,†Comey claims someone stole a reputation that he tossed away two years ago. The report states that Comey not only knowingly violated rules governing all FBI employees, but his self-serving decisions “set a dangerous example for the over 35,000 current FBI employees.â€
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