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."
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Traitors are hanged.
Come to think of it, Schiff’s eyes are already bugged out and his pencil-neck already looks stretched.
So it won’t be much of a change for at least one co-conspirator...
He also narrowed that to "the opening" of the investigation, and refused to include the FISA applications in the characterization.
es, ridiculous how they think they can hide behind phony words....
....Trump described Stefan Halper as a “spy.” Not so because spy is the wrong word. The FBI doesn’t use spies, tweets an outraged James Comey, it employs “Confidential Human Sources (the actual term).” —Washington Examiner, Dec.1,2019.
But the left placed employees in his campaign staff to report inside information to Hillary’s side. By any term.
And they denied “wiretapping” because Trump’s phrase was not the precise manner of modern hacking and digital espionage.
Recall, after getting fired Comey taught a class in ethics. Ethics!
You’re right.
If they get away with this there will be a next time and next time they’ll really go full Stalin/Hitler on us.
Yes, mistakes were made . . . but no one made them.
Barr called it “spying”
And he’s the one who gets to have a big say-so about Comeys future
(Remember the Gorelick Wall).
It’s incredibly hard to get a FISA.
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Unless you are part of the corrupt wing of the FBI.
None of the corruption, illegal spying, crimes and conspiracy were on purpose. It was just sloppyness, you see.
Psssst Fox News- do yourself a favor and fire Chris and gain back at least a little of the integrity you once had-
You’re right. If a spy is a spy to Barr that word has clout.
If Comey claims some would say mistakes were made without intention and employees were possibly less than discreet about sharing of information, Barr could still say “You spied as part of a deliberate coup directed against Donald J. Trump.”
Oh, if you insist on putting it that way....
Thanks for the video link. Cardinal Comey is a world class jerk.
I’ll go you three better: no one is convicted; no one goes to trial; no one is indicted.
I’m sure they can find an orange jumpsuit big enough for him.
I’ll never forget Sandy Berger taking stuff out of the National Archives by putting documents in his socks after 911 (probably implicated Clintonites) and then Gov Bill Richardson saying “he was just sloppy”. Somehow they got away with this....again. They get away with everything.
Bill and Hillary - the worst that has ever happened to the USA.
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Good catch!!!
That caught my ear, too. Rosenstein made it sound like crawling over hot coals and broken glass. It's what I believed up until about last week; then suddenly it was described as easy-peasy, just like indicting a ham sandwich. It's still confusing.
Good reminders.
Agreed! These are John Roberts’ judges. He is in charge.
The minute it was established the warrants were issued, backed by false evidence and deception, Roberts should have blown the whole thing open. He didn’t.
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