Inspector general: FBI employees aren’t perfect

WASHINGTON (AP) – Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz says the people working for the FBI cannot be perfect.

Horowitz testified Monday at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on his report issued last week. That report said former FBI Director James Comey was “insubordinate” in his handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation during the 2016 presidential election but found no evidence the outcome of the investigation was motivated by political bias.

Horowitz says no “rule, policy or practice is perfect” and at the same time, “neither is any individual’s ability to make judgments under pressure or what may seem like unique circumstances.”

At the same hearing, FBI Director Christopher Wray says mistakes made by employees and cited in the report “do not define” the agency as a whole.