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Former FBI Director James Comey sparred with Fox News's Chris Wallace on Sunday over the Justice Department inspector general's (IG) report on the bureau's investigation into President Trump's campaign and whether the probe cleared the FBI of wrongdoing. Wallace pressed Comey on "Fox News Sunday" on whether the "victory lap" he said the former FBI director had taken since the report's release was justified. While Comey has claimed the report by Justice Department IG Michael Horowitz vindicated the FBI, Horowitz in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week said that "the activities we found don’t vindicate anybody who touched...

Former FBI Director James Comey admitted on "Fox News Sunday" that the recently released Justice Department Inspector General’s report on the launch of the FBI’s Russia investigation and their use of the surveillance process showed that he was "overconfident" when he defended his former agency's use of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). This comes days after Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report and testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee detailed concerns that included 17 “significant errors and omissions” by the FBI’s investigative team when applying for a FISA warrant to monitor former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Horowitz referred “the...

Former FBI director James Comey — the man many Americans blame for Donald Trump’s election to the White House, and who the president later fired — doesn’t feel responsible for the outcome of the 2016 presidential election but is burdened by it, he said Saturday in Aspen. Midway through Katie Couric’s 50-minute interview at the Aspen Ideas Festival, she focused on Comey’s letter to Congress on Oct. 28, 2016 — just 11 days before the fateful Nov. 8 election. The letter stated that the FBI had “learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation”...

Former FBI Director James Comey was cautiously hopeful in a recent interview that President Donald Trump won't be re-elected, saying he felt the American people "will tire of him" because Trump "threatens what is essentially America." He also revealed his desire for Democrats to nominate a candidate in 2020 who could appeal to the "great middle." "The rhythm of history, of American history, tells us that eventually, the American people in their great mass will tire of him and come to realize that he threatens what is essentially America, which is our values," he told The Economist podcast host Anne...

During a visit to Ireland, fired FBI Director James Comey said Friday that he was so ashamed of current U.S. immigration policies that he considered telling Irish customs officials that he was Canadian when he arrived. Comey made the remark during a public interview in Dublin, the Irish Times reported. “I am ashamed of the way my country has acted with respect of those children. I am disgusted, I am horrified, I am embarrassed, I’m ashamed,” he said.

Former FBI Director James Comey said on Sunday that he did not believe President Trump was aware of the explosive allegations made against him in the "Steele dossier." Comey briefed Trump on the unverified document, compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, last year. "When you told him the contents of the Steele dossier, did you get the impression it was the first time he'd ever heard those allegations?" NBC's Chuck Todd asked Comey on "Meet the Press." "Yes," Comey said, "And I didn't give him the briefing on the whole Steele dossier. My assignment was to brief him...

The always perspicacious Bret Baier interviewed Comey and the result was almost comical for Comey's dissembling. He's just released a book, but he knows nothing! He has nebulous recollections. He's not sure. "It's possible"...He thinks.....! It's not for him to say.... It's his understanding.... He doesn't remember clearly, 'I'm not allowed to say,' and on and on. Comey’s ability to communicate vagueness is stunning. He doesn't "know" an awful lot for being the then-director of the FBI. The man pretends to be an outsider looking in on a scandal from which he is far removed. ...this man was, sad to...

Fired FBI Director James Comey held his first interview on ABC Sunday night promoting his new book, “A Higher Loyalty.” Not one hardball was thrown at Comey, naturally since Stephanopoulos is a long time Democrat operative and Clinton sycophant. Comey just doesn’t know when to shut up; we have caught ANOTHER whopper from the former FBI chief from his ABC interview.

During a Tuesday interview with “Good Morning America,” former FBI Director praised Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James, saying he learned a lot about leadership from the future Hall of Fame. “I admire LeBron James, and he’s probably about to find out I used to talk about him all over the FBI and say he illustrates what the endless pursuit of excellence looks like,” Comey told host George Stephanopoulos. He continued, “Every offseason, I’ve read, he tries to find a part of his game to make better — which is crazy, because he’s already better than everybody else. It’s because he...

1)A few questions @Comey should have been asked--but wasn't:

People magazine may have just been plugging the latest comedy book by Ali Wentworth...but their puff piece also served as a promotion for her husband George Stephanopoulos in the days before the big Jim Comey Sunday night book special. “I went through my bad-boy stage before I met him, and the reason I was blown away by him is because he has so much integrity.”There's a more in-depth endorsement online: “I was so blown away when I met him was because he has so much integrity,” she told People. “I went through a bad boy stage before him, and I...

FBI Director James Comey warned Wednesday that Americans should not have expectations of “absolute privacy,” adding that he planned to finish his term leading the FBI. “There is no such thing as absolute privacy in America; there is no place outside of judicial reach,” Comey said at a Boston College conference on cybersecurity. He made the remark as he discussed the rise of encryption since 2013 disclosures by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden revealed sensitive US spy practices. “Even our communications with our spouses, with our clergy members, with our attorneys are not absolutely private in America,” Comey...

FOX News reporting that FBI Director Comey will hold a news conference tomorrow, May 11, 2016, supposedly regarding ServerGate. It is reported that no questions will be suppressed. Looking for more info. What questions should be asked?