A Washington Post columnist decides that Hitler had a dog. You have a dog. Therefore, you are Hitler.

James Comey gets slapped by the Inspector General, and we'll check the mailbag. I'm Ben Shapiro.

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We didn't have a chance to do this on the podcast yesterday because this news broke after the podcast was over.

But here is the story.

So James Comey, former FBI director, hero of the republic for a brief moment in time, brief shining moment in time.

A report came out yesterday from the office of the inspector general over at the DOJ,

and basically what it found is that he leaked classified information to the press through a

friend.

Now wasn't heavily classified.

It wasn't super duper top secret classified.

It wasn't like he set up a private server like Hillary Clinton or something.

Instead, what happened is something fairly simple. He created a series of memos. He then leaked those memos to one of his friends who was outside the government. That person then proceeded to hand those over to the New York Times. And that was, in fact, a violation of law, but not bad enough that he was actually going to get prosecuted. Now, James Comey then declared himself exonerated.

There are so many ironies in this story. It's like layer, it's an onion-o irony. You take off that top layer, another layer of irony. And then another layer of all the way down to that core

of granite iron irony. It's just, it's fantastic. So James Comey was, he started off, you'll recall,

as an enemy to the Democrats, right? Because in 2016, James Comey was he started off, you'll recall, as an enemy to the Democrats, right?

Because in 2016, James Comey made the grave error of going out in public and spilling on how Hillary Clinton violated the law six ways from Sunday.

And then he said, but we're not prosecuting her because I've changed the law conveniently for her.

I've changed the law now.

I'm rewriting it.

She's not going to be prosecuted.

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