Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Fox's Chris Wallace spars with Comey over Horowitz report
The Hill ^ | 12/15/2019 | REGINA ZILBERMINTS

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 ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020election; alexandervindman; billpriestap; burisma; carterpage; chriswallace; comey; comeyinterview; davidlaufman; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2020; ericciaramella; fbi; fisa; jamescomey; johnbrennan; lisabarsoomian; mediawingofthednc; michaelcohen; michaelhorowitz; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; rodrosenstein; smearmachine; trump; ukraine; weaselvsweasel
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-98 next last
To: gibsonguy

Agreed.


61 posted on 12/15/2019 9:37:49 AM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: Gahanna Bob
Brennan, Clapper, Comey and McCabe will be indicted by Durham. Take it to the bank.

I'll take that bet. I'll bet you $100 donation to FR that not even three of the four is indicted.

62 posted on 12/15/2019 9:46:04 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: bitt

“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.


63 posted on 12/15/2019 9:46:24 AM PST by moovova
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: frank ballenger
Comey calls it investigating.

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.

64 posted on 12/15/2019 9:52:50 AM PST by Sacajaweau
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 52 | View Replies]

To: Aria

https://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/08/berger.sentenced/


65 posted on 12/15/2019 9:55:00 AM PST by Sacajaweau
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 56 | View Replies]

To: bitt
pointed out the IG found 17 errors

This is what infuriates me. Errors??? Like we graded a paper wrong? In ONE application. These are not "errors". These are deliberate lies.

66 posted on 12/15/2019 9:56:03 AM PST by DouglasKC
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: bitt

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???


67 posted on 12/15/2019 10:12:47 AM PST by MCSETots
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Gahanna Bob

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.


68 posted on 12/15/2019 10:22:40 AM PST by GOPJ (radical socialists backed by self-righteous celebrities on Twitter are electoral poison PIERS MORGAN)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: bitt

Nothing will happen.


69 posted on 12/15/2019 10:23:53 AM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: bitt
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."

Did WallAss let Comey get away with that answer??

70 posted on 12/15/2019 10:26:33 AM PST by FreeReign
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: bitt

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?


71 posted on 12/15/2019 10:58:46 AM PST by dila813 (Voting for Trump to Punish Trumpets!me tking public being de)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: bitt; All
This POS is getting out in front of Durham’s exposé being released early next year.

Then we will be hearing the slime balls reciting the Nixonian Refrain: “I am not a crook.”

72 posted on 12/15/2019 10:58:59 AM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Bob434

Chris Wallace did a very good job of interviewing him. I think Chris made him look like a fool.


73 posted on 12/15/2019 11:25:56 AM PST by Hildy (Don't get bitter, get better.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies]

To: Hildy

He’s still a hateful democrat- a hateful never trumper-


74 posted on 12/15/2019 11:43:13 AM PST by Bob434
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 73 | View Replies]

To: Gahanna Bob
Brennan, Clapper, Comey and McCabe will be indicted by Durham. Take it to the bank.

They should be. Still ticks me off that Lois Lerner and the Clintons are running around free.

75 posted on 12/15/2019 11:46:55 AM PST by nutmeg
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Bob434

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.


76 posted on 12/15/2019 11:47:04 AM PST by Hildy (Don't get bitter, get better.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 74 | View Replies]

To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Too little, too late, from Piss Wallace. Thanks bitt.

77 posted on 12/15/2019 11:53:55 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Hildy

[[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-


78 posted on 12/15/2019 11:55:57 AM PST by Bob434
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 76 | View Replies]

To: Gahanna Bob
I hope so. I really want to see when Comey has his own personal Ceausescu moment when reality catches up to him and his overconfidence gets wiped off his face.

And I want Mueller to be in that line too.

79 posted on 12/15/2019 12:10:04 PM PST by Widget Jr
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: laplata

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?


80 posted on 12/15/2019 12:11:39 PM PST by cornfedcowboy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-98 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson