Inspector General Report LEAKED: Comey Was Rogue FBI Director, Defied Authority on Hillary Email Probe
The Justice Departmentâs internal watchdog has concluded that James Comey defied authority at times during his tenure as FBI director, according to sources familiar with a draft report on the matter.
One source told ABC News that the draft report explicitly used the word âinsubordinateâ to describe Comeyâs behavior. Another source agreed with that characterization but could not confirm the use of the term.
In the draft report, Inspector General Michael Horowitz also rebuked former Attorney General Loretta Lynch for her handling of the federal investigation into Hillary Clintonâs personal email server, the sources said.
The draft of Horowitzâs wide-ranging report specifically called out Comey for ignoring objections from the Justice Department when he disclosed in a letter to Congress just days before the 2016 presidential election that FBI agents had reopened the Clinton probe, according to sources. Clinton has said that letter doomed her campaign.
Horowitzâs draft report cited Comey for failing to consult with Lynch and other senior Justice Department officials before making his announcement on national TV.
By then, Lynch had taken the unusual step of publicly declaring she would accept the FBIâs recommendations in the case, after an impromptu meeting with former president Bill Clinton sparked questions about her impartiality.
The inspector generalâs office seemed to similarly view Lynchâs announcement as strange, with the draft report criticizing her for how she handled the impromptu tarmac meeting and its aftermath, according to sources familiar with the findings.
Nevertheless, ABC News has confirmed that Horowitzâs draft report went on to criticize senior FBI officials, including Comey and fired FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, for their response to the late discovery of a laptop containing evidence that may have related to the Clinton investigation.
That discovery prompted the FBIâs letter to Congress announcing the reopening of the Hillary Clinton email probe. Hundreds of thousands of emails had been found on the laptop of disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner, whose wife, Huma Abedin, was a top aide to the secretary of state.
It took weeks for the FBI to start analyzing the laptopâs contents, and Horowitzâs draft report criticized senior FBI officials for how long the laptop languished inside the bureau, sources told ABC News.
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