FBI Director James Comey ‘Crossed the Rubicon’ this week when he cast his dice with the Republican party by releasing a partisan memo with election implications.
He’s facing an internal revolt over the affair at the FBI, for undoing decades of non-partisan law enforcement practices.
Two serious criminal complaints have already been levied against the FBI Director by the Democratic Coalition Against Trump for using the FBI to engage in partisan activity and now by former White House Ethics Counsel Richard Painter too.
Sources inside the FBI told Newsweek’s Kurt Eichenwald that they were furious with Director Comey’s rare public revelations from the Clinton investigation from the start this summer.
They’re not the only ones upset.
High ranking Department of Justice officials strongly discouraged Comey from going public just 11 days before a general election, without holding a smoking gun or really any strong evidence of anyone’s wrongdoing in hand.
The FBI Director broke policy to inform Congress about details of an investigation without any actual details, which is already being used for partisan purposes.
Director Comey followed up his first memo to Congress with a “cover your ass” memo to his fellow FBI officers which appeared in The Washington Post.
The impact within the FBI has been swift after the first memo.
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