6/14/2018

2016 ELECTION/FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/JAMES COMEY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT: “A long-awaited watchdog report sharply criticized top officials at the Justice Department and FBI, particularly former FBI Director James Comey, over how they handled the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, but found no evidence that the probe’s conclusions were affected by bias or other political considerations. The report by the Justice Department’s inspector general found that Mr. Comey deviated from policies in speaking publicly about the investigation at a news conference in July 2016 in which he said the Federal Bureau of Investigation was recommending no charges be filed against Mrs. Clinton…Mr. Comey was also chastised for engaging in ‘ad hoc’ decision making when sending a letter to Congress just days before the 2016 election that the FBI had reopened the matter…Mr. Comey defended his decisions in his book, ‘A Higher Loyalty,’ saying he feared withholding information from the public could have made Mrs. Clinton an ‘illegitimate president.’ Mr. Comey said his decision to notify Congress 11 days before the election that his investigative team had begun examining fresh material in the Clinton investigation was justified by his concern about preserving the integrity of the FBI.”

-Del Quentin Wilber, Aruna Viswanatha and Sadie Gurman, “DOJ Clinton Report Blasts Comey, Agents, but Finds No Bias in Conclusion,” The Wall Stret Journal, June 14, 2018 2:20 pm