For all the pissing and moaning about Comey, 99% of it is just personal opinion - but this is different. She got him to admit, in essence, that they hadn’t provided their oversight groups with notification about this surveillance “because of the sensitivity of it”.
That is probably a violation of rule or policy that Comey himself put in place, so in and of itself, is probably not a big deal. We’ll find out, I’m sure.
Clearly it showed that they are not above hiding things from the oversight groups. Before everyone jumps up on their high horse, consider that could have been a good thing as well as perhaps a bad thing. What if he’d stated that they were investigating Trump and Trump’s polls took a nosedive and Hillary soared? I have no idea, only that too many of us on FR are jumping to conclusions in the absence of any kind of data and just making up the same kind of fake news we detest.
But words from the FBI Directors own lips are not fake and the accompanying body language showed he was not prepared with an explanation.
The fact is, there is only one known criminal action: the revealing of General Flynn’s name and leaking it to the press. While the Congresswoman did a good job in her questioning, shame on Gowdy and the rest for not directly asking the two men they had in front of them under oath, “were you the one who revealed Kelly’s identity or leak it to the press?”
Too tough a question for Talkin’ Gowdy.