Noah Feldman, Columnist

Justice Department to Comey: You Have Sinned

The FBI director broke the unwritten rules that maintain the independence of U.S. law enforcement.

June 14, 2018 at 7:17 PM UTC

Noah Feldman is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A professor of law at Harvard University, he is author, most recently, of “To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People."

The law above man.
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Blame Comey. That’s the main takeaway of the much-awaited Justice Department inspector general’s report on the Hillary Clinton email investigation. The report faulted former FBI Director James Comey both for saying in July 2016 that there were no grounds for a reasonable prosecutor to go after Clinton and for saying in October of that year that the investigation of her emails had been reopened.

The report released Thursday is intended to rebuke Comey and send a message about keeping the rule of law separate from politics.