It Seems Trump Was Right To Fire James ComeyNY Sun, Aug 29, 2019
The most important point to draw from the Justice Department’s report on James Comey is that President Trump was right to cashier him as director of the FBI. The department declined to prosecute the ex-director. The department’s inspector general made clear, though, that Mr. Comey lacks the judgment to safeguard the kind of sensitive information that the Bureau needs to keep safe in order to properly “dispatch†its duties.
That strikes us as devastating. The report focuses on Mr. Comey’s sharing of sensitive memos with persons outside the department, among them his lawyers. He shared some with a friend for onpassing to the New York Times. The IG found Mr. Comey at times failed “to immediately alert the FBI to the unauthorized disclosure of classified information†and was less than completely forthcoming in testimony to the Senate.
Mr. Comey, the IG report concludes, set a “dangerous example for the over 35,000 current FBI employees†and thousands of former ones who “similarly have access to or knowledge of non-public information.†He should have adhered to department and FBI policies if he wanted a special counsel appointed. Instead he disclosed sensitive investigative information “in order to achieve a personally desired outcome.â€
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