Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz said Wednesday that his lengthy investigation into the origins of the probe into Russia and President Trump’s campaign didn’t vindicate the former FBI chief James Comey — or anyone else.
“I think the activities we found here don’t vindicate anybody who touched this,” Horowitz said during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Russia probe when asked by GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham about Comey’s comments that Horowitz’s report cleared him of wrongdoing.
“So it was all lies. No treason. No spying on the campaign. No tapping Trumps wires. It was just good people trying to protect America,” Comey asserted on Twitter after the report was released on Monday.
Trump fired Comey in May 2017 and later told NBC News that he was thinking at the time about “the Russia thing,” which he said was unfair to his presidency.