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James Comey has traded the halo of a once-respected lawman for the stain of a deeply politicized legacy, and the record shows why hardworking Americans should be furious. The Department of Justice inspector general’s painstaking reviews found that Comey repeatedly violated FBI and DOJ policies in how he handled and disclosed sensitive memos and investigative material, setting a dangerous example for a bureau that must be above partisan games. Those findings are not partisan rhetoric — they come from the watchdog charged with policing the Department itself.
Long before the partisan headlines, Comey personally funneled memos about private Oval Office conversations to a law professor who then fed them to the press, a maneuver the inspector general concluded was improper and clearly outside normal FBI procedure. That leak helped create the public furor that led to the appointment of a special counsel and launched a years-long political war that damaged national institutions. Competent conservatives know institutions matter, and when an FBI director weaponizes his office to engineer political outcomes, trust in law enforcement dies.
The IG also lambasted Comey for his extraordinary and insubordinate July 2016 press conference that shredded DOJ norms by announcing the Clinton email probe’s end while simultaneously criticizing her actions. The report called his unilateral public theatrics a deviation from long-established Department policies and an act that rocked a presidential election. If the leadership of our premier law enforcement agency chooses press stunts over process, we cannot pretend the consequences are anything but catastrophic.
Meanwhile, the origins and handling of the Russia scandal remain a cautionary tale about selective outrage and bureaucratic double standards. Special counsel John Durham’s original report criticized sloppy, politicized practices at the FBI, and the newly declassified annex this year revealed that intelligence alleging a Clinton-linked scheme to smearing Donald Trump was not thoroughly investigated by the FBI under Comey’s watch. Patriots who want accountability for the weaponization of government will see that omission as more than a mistake — it was part of a pattern of protecting powerful Democrats while targeting their political opponents.
Republican lawmakers and House investigators have rightly demanded transparency, and the Justice Department’s recent transmissions of declassified Durham materials to Congress only reinforced the need for a full accounting. Senate Republicans led by Chairman Grassley published material showing the FBI had intelligence that deserved follow-up yet was sidelined, and Americans deserve to know why standard investigative steps were ignored. This is not about revenge; it is about rebuilding an impartial FBI that treats every citizen and political actor the same under the law.
The long-delayed hand of justice has finally caught up with the man who once lectured others about the law: Comey now faces federal charges alleging false statements to Congress and obstruction of a congressional proceeding, and he has pleaded not guilty. Conservatives can celebrate neither gleefully nor prematurely — the courts must sort guilt from politics — but it is impossible to ignore the poetic symmetry of a former director being answerable in court for conduct the inspector general long documented. Regardless of the trial’s outcome, those developments vindicate calls for accountability that patriots have made for years.
We should be clear-eyed about reforms: the OIG recommended tighter rules on disclosures, retention of records and oversight of politically sensitive investigations, and those reforms are overdue if we want an FBI that serves the rule of law rather than a political agenda. Conservatives will keep pushing for structural fixes — real transparency, limits on unilateral public announcements, and safeguards to prevent future directors from treating the nation like their personal pulpit. The American people deserve an FBI that protects liberty and enforces the law without fear or favor, not one that plays politics from the highest office in the building.
This moment calls for sober resolve, not cheap triumphalism. Demand transparency from your elected officials, insist on honest oversight, and hold every public servant to the same standard of accountability that James Comey failed to meet. Our republic depends on institutions that live up to their oaths, and patriotic Americans must not rest until every abuse of power is exposed and corrected so that future generations inherit a government worthy of their trust.
