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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Agreed.
I'll take that bet. I'll bet you $100 donation to FR that not even three of the four is indicted.
“Fox’s Chris Wallace spars with Comey over Horowitz report”
Really! With Chris Wallace interviewing one of his idols...I would’ve expected oral sex at the very least.
Well, Saint Comey....in order to investigate, you spied. We're not stupid.
And you told the President THREE TIMES...that he was NOT under investigation.
Sounds a bit like that Judas story.
This is what infuriates me. Errors??? Like we graded a paper wrong? In ONE application. These are not "errors". These are deliberate lies.
Well as long as he admits he was wrong, that’s all that counts.
I wonder if they would have dropped all the accusations and investigations with DJT if DJT says he was wrong and is ver sorry???
Was Brennan being blackmailed by the true thugs behind the coup? He’s seems weak and corrupt and too stupid to have done this on his own.
Nothing will happen.
Did WallAss let Comey get away with that answer??
Given a platform for my lies, remember when they were hiding that the DNC and Clinton paid for this????
GOP House had to go to the courts to get the financial records of a bank to find this out?
Then we will be hearing the slime balls reciting the Nixonian Refrain: “I am not a crook.”
Chris Wallace did a very good job of interviewing him. I think Chris made him look like a fool.
He’s still a hateful democrat- a hateful never trumper-
They should be. Still ticks me off that Lois Lerner and the Clintons are running around free.
So what in this case he did an excellent job in showing the real James Comey so ready to get in front of a camera to say his FBI did not commit treason but he put his foot in his mouth even more.
Too little, too late, from Piss Wallace. Thanks bitt.
[[So what]]
so what? He’s driving people from fox=- Fox is leaning more and more left these days, and people are leaving because of hateful leftists like wallace juan, jeraldo, etc etc etc— that’s ‘so what’ He does one good job and that makes him a swell guy? He’s a disgrace to fox news- regardless of that one interview- any interviewer could have done that good a job and better-
And I want Mueller to be in that line too.
I would believe that Comey is taking interviews to lay out a defense. Why would you subject yourself to such scrutiny if you were innocent?
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