Attorney General Jeff Sessions finally weighed in on the IG report that came out a couple weeks ago, but it wasn’t as much as I was hoping.
Watch:
Here’s the relevant part from the video:
CBN NEWS – So what does the attorney general think of the report?
“It was a 500-page report. We are digesting it carefully,” he told CBN News. “We are not going to be defensive; we are going to, in fact, take action – wherever action is justified. And the inspector general was pretty open, critical at points, and reported truth.”
Sessions, however, declined to say whether or not he thought there was political bias inside the FBI.
“I’ll let the report speak for itself and people can evaluate that,” he said.
Meanwhile, the new FBI director, Christopher Wray, has come under criticism for accepting the report’s findings, leaving the attorney general to defend him.
“Chris Wray is a man of integrity and ability and he is in his own proper step-by-step way improving the FBI, addressing the concerns,” Sessions told CBN News.
Sessions was also asked about Trump’s criticism of his recusal:
President Trump, on the other hand, has consistently been critical of what he believes is corruption at the spy agency.
He’s also been critical of Sessions when it comes to the Russia investigation.
“The president’s frustrated about this investigation that I am confident I correctly recused myself on. But he and I agree on the great issues,” Sessions said.
Sessions overall is being very diplomatic on these issues. I would have loved to hear him weigh in more on the IG report, especially given how critical the IG was in the report, which he mentioned. The fact that he wouldn’t say whether or not there was any bias was disappointing, but it’s probably just him trying to protect the agency or something. Or keep from adding public pressure to the FBI director’s job.
Ah well.