{"id":8271,"date":"2018-06-14T16:09:19","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T20:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8271"},"modified":"2018-06-14T16:09:19","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T20:09:19","slug":"the-inspector-generals-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8271","title":{"rendered":"The Inspector General’s report …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… of its investigation of James Comey and the Clinton e-mail investigation has been released and is available here<\/a>. It’s 568-pages long, so I haven’t read it yet. I have<\/i> read the Executive Summary, and it doesn’t point toward anything that isn’t already common knowledge.<\/p>\n

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    Comey violated procedural norms in his pre-election press conferences, the first to announce that there would not be a recommendation for prosecution of Hilary Clinton, and the second announcing that the investigation was being reopened.<\/p>\n

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    Comey’s violation of established policies was insubordinate, but not animated by bias for or against either candidate.<\/p>\n

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    Some FBI agents loathe the Liar-in-Chief.<\/ol>\n

    I share the view that Comey made a very serious mistake, but am disinclined to view him as harshly as some others. Knowing that Trump was also under investigation, and for crimes that flirt with treason — about which he said nothing — placed him in an extraordinary, probably unprecedented, situation; we should not judge him too harshly if he did an awkward job of attempting to thread that needle. What precedent, after all, could he consult?<\/p>\n

    In the event, he undoubtedly tipped fence-sitting voters toward Trump.<\/p>\n

    Though there doesn’t appear to be anything new in the report, Trump will probably turn this into a narrative about ‘deep state’ hostility to him.<\/p>\n

    Scanning the Executive Summary, and scanning some of the commentary that is already appearing, I am struck once again by how little (much of) the public understands about the work life of professionals — the shorthand vocabulary, the often sardonic and frequently cynical or self-deprecating humor, the responsibilities and ethical constraints. Every single day, civil engineers prepare designs for clients whose project they dislike, lawyers represent clients that they don’t want to see within 5-miles of their family, doctors and nurses provide care to clients they despise, journalists accurately report events that sicken them. Every day.<\/p>\n

    I wonder, occasionally, if Joe Citizen has any idea what goes on inside the army of well-educated professionals who keep society functioning, or if Mr. Citizen even knows it exists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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