Will James Comey demand another apology?

The former Federal Bureau of Investigation director has always been at his most natural when most aggrieved. Within hours of the release of Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report Monday, Mr. Comey had an op-ed up at the the Washington Post.

In a tweet touting his piece, Mr. Comey put it this way: “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.”

This comes as no surprise to anyone who remembers when an earlier inspector general report called him “insubordinate” for having “intentionally concealed” from his Justice Department bosses his plans for a press conference exonerating Hillary Clinton of criminal wrongdoing over her use of a private email server to send classified material.

Mr. Comey’s answer that time? An op-ed in the New York Times under the headline, “This Report Says I Was Wrong. But That’s Good for the F.B.I.”