Hi and welcome to another edition of the Byron York show.

You know this is the No Chit Chat podcast,

and we're going to start out again with No Chit Chat,

and we're going to introduce our guest today, which is me.

It's a solo Byron York podcast today. And we're going to be talking

about James Komi, about the Inspector General of the Justice Department and where things

might be going from now after this. Justice Department

I.

I. I. on Komi. You know, I reported on Wednesday that the inspector general was going to do a separate report on Komi and I was

a little surprised to find that out. I had a number of people telling me that this is what was going to happen.

And I was a little bit taken aback by it.

I didn't know exactly what that meant.

I thought that the inspector general Michael Horowitz was going to be

producing the big long report on so-called FISA abuse really more on the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation.

So I thought that was coming, but I knew that that had been delayed.

I mean, it was going to be June, there's going to be July, now August is over, and they're talking mid to late September,

possibly October would not be surprised if it slips to then, maybe beyond.

But clearly, Michael Horowitz decided to issue a separate standalone small report on Komi and I was told it was going to be just on the Komi memos and indeed it was.

So what do we have here? We have James Comi trying to kind of spin his way out of

this and saying that he's been exonerated and that he has owed an apology, an apology by the people who were very critical of him

over the last several months.

But the fact is, the report is really quite devastating and I'll just read you a little bit of the big picture of that and Horowitz talked about how top FBI officials, top law enforcement officials, have a responsibility

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