The Shocking History Of Sexual Misconduct Within James Comey's FBI
http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/25/fbi-sexual-misconduct-comey/
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The enforcement summaries show the IG filed not a single sexual misconduct charge against bureau employees from January 2009 until November 2013. But after that date sexual misconduct charges accelerated, virtually all of them under Comey's term. The former director joined the FBI in September 2014 and left on May 2017 when President Trump fired him.
Importantly, Horowitz reported Comey attempted to thwart the investigation, as he sought to examine the bureau's recent history of sexual harassment and misconduct charges.
As Horowitz explained in his March 2015 final report on how law enforcement agencies handle sexual-misconduct complaints, his office's ability "to conduct this review was significantly impacted and delayed by the repeated difficulties we had in obtaining relevant information from both the FBI and DEA as we were initiating this review in mid-2013."
Horowitz said the FBI and DEA initially refused to provide his office "with unredacted information that was responsive to our requests."
After months of protracted discussions with the FBI, the bureau "found that the information was still incomplete."
Congress denounced Comey's refusal to open the FBI's records and eventually led to the passage of the Inspector General Empowerment Act of 2016, which requires all federal departments and agencies to share all records with the IG. It became law on Dec. 16, 2016.
Horowitz told The Washington Post in December 2017 some perpetrators within federal, law enforcement agencies received light punishment for their sexual misconduct. The summary of incidents, listed below, confirms Horowitz's findings.
Comey and Obama-era Attorney General Loretta Lynch together fought Horowitz's determination to fully investigate the bureau's handling of sexual misconduct charges.
Lynch supported Comey's defiance of the IG via a July 20, 2015, memo from DOJ Office of Legal Counsel principal-deputy AG Karl Thompson. Thompson charged law enforcement agencies could redact information in its files and withhold information from the Inspector General. It was one of her first acts as Obama's new Attorney General, who was sworn in to office on April 27, 2015.
When she issued the memo, Lynch was undermining a 1978 inspector general law that instructed every federal department and agency to permit inspectors general to have access to "all records."
Horowitz denounced Lynch's memo in his final, 2015 report on the handling of sexual harassment allegations by various law enforcement agencies. The IG found "significant systemic issues" afflicting how federal law enforcement agencies handled sexual harassment cases, including the FBI.
"The OIG's ability to conduct this review was significantly impacted and delayed by the repeated difficulties we had in obtaining relevant information" from the FBI, Horrowitz complained in his report.
Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, the chairman of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary expressed his anger over Lynch's memorandum at an August 5, 2015 hearing.
"The FBI is not above the law," Grassley declared in his opening statement at the hearing. "FBI employees cannot legally be spending their time withholding and reviewing documents before providing them to the IG," the Iowa Senator stated. "However, this is exactly what the FBI has been doing." ...
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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