before, here's my partisan enemy, i'm so glad it happen ed undercuts the notion that this was purely a bureaucratic examination over the candor of the inspector general and so forth. it's reminiscent of a year ago with the story that jim comby was fired when they found a memo on the hillary clinton investigation which was totally destroyed by trump himself a day or two later when he made it clear he had gotten the memo and was thinking about russia when he made the firing. all of that said, though, i want to add the voice to the substance behind what happened here. it is the case that the inspector general of the justice department michael horwitz is not at all a trump figure. he was appointed by president obama. he has a long history as an independent neutral career law