James Comey is Vindicated!!! He's Only Incompetent AF

So the IG report dropped and it said James Comey and company weren't traitors who launched a coup against the sitting president of the United States? So how did Mr. Comey take this?

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. https://t.co/9nurCaIBq2

— James Comey (@Comey) December 9, 2019

LOL!

The report actually appears to be utterly damning, but only in terms of showing the FBI was incompetent and negligent to an extreme. It lists 17 "serious performance failures" which include, for example,

​Omitted information the FBI had obtained from another U.S. government agency detailing its prior relationship with Page, including that Page had been approved as an "operational contact" for the other agency from 2008 to 2013, and that Page had provided information to the other agency concerning his prior cont acts with certain Russian intelligence officers, one of which overlapped with facts asserted in the FISA application; 

The report can be read here and the list of "performance failures" can be found on pages viii through xii. Robby Soave sums it up quite well,

The FISA warrant, which was reauthorized three times, contained false and misleading information about Page. It omitted that he had previously disclosed his Russian contacts to a government agency; it overstated the government's confidence in the Christopher Steele dossier and ignored Steele's own doubts about one of his sources; it declined to mention that Page had said he and Paul Manafort had 'literally never met'; and in general it ignored information that rendered unlikely the theory that Page was a Russian asset.

In other words, Mr. Comey, F minus. 

But at least you're not a traitor.* If you consider that vindication, well congrats!

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*Assuming US attorney John Durham doesn't have something of substance up his sleeve, of course.