Is the media at all embarrassed by their defense of Comey and McCabe after IG report?

John Solomon:
For those journalists who have covered law enforcement for decades, there was some discomfort watching a doting news media bestow adoration earlier this year upon the FBI’s disgraced top two former bosses.

FBI Director James Comey, terminated for violating department guidelines and explicit instructions, was given the royal treatment when his memoircame out this spring.

Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, fired for lying to his own federal investigators, was portrayed as a whistleblower akin to Mark Felt, another former top FBI official who exposed the very real Watergate scandal.

But that agitation in the pit of my stomach apparently blinded me from one of Comey’s greatest achievements. In fact, J. Edgar Hoover’s successor, seven times removed, accomplished something few in the Washington world could ever imagine: He got supporters of both President Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton to agree on something.

That something — as Attorney General Jeff Sessions put it on The Hill’s new “Rising” digital TV show on Thursday — was that Comey and his band of merry G-men committed “a big mistake” in their oversight of the FBI during the 2016 election.

Unlikely to agree on much else with Sessions regarding policy, former Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta did concur with him that Comey made a mistake — one Podesta says could have cost the former Democratic nominee the 2016 election.

“He violated department standards when he refused to take the advice of senior people in the Justice Department, so I’m not going to defend him,” Podesta also told “Rising” on Thursday. He added that Comey “kind of blew the election for us.”

The Department of Justice (DOJ) official watchdog laid bare on Thursday just how bad Comey’s FBI really was. Inspector General Michael Horowitz concluded, in a 500-plus page report, that Comey was insubordinate when he announced the reopening of the Clinton email investigation a few days before the 2016 election, after being told not to do so by Justice officials.

Comey also violated department norms, misused personal email for FBI work, and usurped the authority of Attorney General Loretta Lynch when he decided on his own not to pursue charges against Mrs. Clinton for pushing classified emails through an insecure server.
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Soloman is one of the few reporters who actually got it right during the FBI's attempt to choose sides in an election and attempt to overthrow the results of an election they did not like.   He was also attacked for hsi reporting which was more accurate than that of most of the mainstream media.

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