Posted on 12/15/2019 8:23:36 AM PST by bitt
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 this."
"Maybe it turns upon how we understand the word," Comey said. "What I mean is the FBI was accused of treason, of illegal spying, of tapping Mr. Trump's wires illegally, of opening an investigation without justification, of being a criminal conspiracy to defeat and then unseat a president. All of that was nonsense."
When Comey admitted to "sloppiness" in handling certain parts of the investigation, Wallace responded that "sloppiness may be a euphemism for what he found" and pointed out the IG found 17 errors in one of the applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court for a warrant to wiretap Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
"Seventeen significant errors in FISA process, and you say it was handled in a thoughtful and appropriate way," Wallace said.
"He's right. I was wrong. I was overconfident in the procedures the FBI and Justice had built over 20 years. I thought they were robust enough. It's incredibly hard to get a FISA. I was overconfident in those. He's right. There was real sloppiness."
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Brennan, Clapper, Comey and McCabe will be indicted by Durham. Take it to the bank.
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Who is this.... Sandy Berger?
So it was only the “procedures” at fault?
Not exactly. Whore o' wits parsed that conclusion VERY carefully.
What he said is very different from what's being reported (above) he said:
(he) found serious government surveillance abuses but no testamentary or documentary evidence of political bias on the part of the offending FBI officials and agents.
No 'testamentary evidence' means no one he asked would say they were biased.
No 'documentary evidence' means no one he asked would admit they were biased in writing.
He accepted their statements at face value and ignored their previous well-documented statements and all their actions to come to the conclusion he wanted.
Again with the "it depends on what the meaning of is is" crapola? Somebody get these demonicRATS a dictionary!
“Brennan, Clapper, Comey and McCabe will be indicted by Durham. Take it to the bank”.
I agree.
OH, izzat the proven liar Comey, or the boink your mistress Comey, or the FBI crook Oomey.
Oh, yeah, it’s all three.
And more!!
Gentleman’s wager? I say no one ever spends a day in jail. Barr will never light a fuse that burns straight to 0bama. He just won’t do it.
A cop who lies on a warrant application is a dirty cop.
The first set I agree with you. Followed by numerous others.
If we are to be a nation that has rule of law...yes, I sure hope so.
Lib publication The Hill uses the word ‘spar’.
This ain’t no game.
Both men are insufferable and arrogant twits...Colmey’s crimes are actionable; Pandering Wallace gives opinion, not fact.
“It’s incredibly hard to get a FISA. “
Really? Seems like it depends on getting the right Judge and the right target. Of course we don’t know because despite the fact that the they supposedly duped 3 years ago not one word of disapproval from any of them. I think that he/she/them were part of this treasonous act.
Why is he not in handcuffs yet?
Comey is only sorry his stooges were so damn sloppy.
Look back at his....hiding behind the curtains, and other such comments.
He knew exactly what he was doing, and just used the process as a cover story.
The question in my mind is “Can Chris Wallace survive at Fox if he lobs softballs at Comey and Schiff?” My hope is he can’t.
I thought when asked if he could rule out bias Horowitz said he could not.
“No ‘documentary evidence’ means no one he asked would admit they were biased in writing.”
In other words unless a murderer confesses to the murder, the fact that he’s standing over the body with a bloody knife is of no importance or consequence.
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