former fbi director james comey violated his own agency s policies and employment agreement in his handling of memos, documenting in part to private conversations with the president about the russia investigation. we have previously faulted comey for acting unilaterally and inconsistent with department policy. what is not permitted is the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive investigative information, in order to achieve a personally desired outcome. after being fired by the president in may 2017, he later told congress he believed the memos for his property to share. i understood this to be my recollection recorded of my conversation with the president is a private citizen. i felt it very important to get it out. the inspector general found the memos were government records, his characterization as personal records finds no support in the law. to get the contents of the memo to the new york times to kick-start the special counsel
of those who spent two years talking about me going to jail and being a liar and leaker, ask yourself why you trust people who gave you bad info for so long, including the president. the justice department decided not to prosecute comey after reviewing the findings, in part because prosecutors didn t believe there was evidence that comey knew and intended to view owe late the laws dealing with classified information. republicans are sizing on the i.g. s information that he mishandled the memos. they re comparing it into the information into hillary clinton s email servers. comey didn t prosecute clinton. the d.o.j. i.g. faulted comey for going rogue on that announcement. now jim jordan has equipped in a statement that after comey cleared clinton, comey decided to mishandle sensitive information. the partisan bickering continues. it will continue for some time. no doubt.
hope this, i took it as this is what he wants me to do. i didn t obey that, but that s the way i took it. inspector general report released he did find comey violated fbi policy by sharing his memos with a personal lawyer. the defining our friend matt miller, doj spokesman and frequent critic of comey described this way, quote, the ig basically faulted comey for speeding on his way to say a fire was coming. but the president and his campaign have come out swinging today, attacking comey with the usual smears. in fact trump falsely accused comey of leaking classified information on at least ten occasions. comey, by the way, lied and leaked and also leaked classified information. then you see the lying and you see the leaking and you see comey lie to congress, nothing happens. you see him leaking, nothing happens. and this is leaking classified
because he felt he could not trust the department of justice and that s the same theme that played out in the clinton email investigation and it was also this inspector general michael e. horowitz who faulted comey for those same actions in the clinton email case. jon: thank you. let s go back to andy mccarthy fox news contributor, former federal prosecutor. james comey at least prior to his firing always enjoyed a reputation of something of a boy scout in the f.b.i. a guy who was always upholding the law. this report would seem to suggest otherwise. well, certainly he became a law unto himself. he thinks that he had a good reason for it. but here is something, jon, i ve never been able to understand. he was jim comey. he had a very big public profile. he was no longer f.b.i. director once he was removed by president trump. why leak government records? you are jim comey, you could go