Fox's Chris Wallace spars with Comey over Horowitz report

The Hill ^ | 12/15/2019 | REGINA ZILBERMINTS

[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."

[elpadre]

“....not one FBI agent that stepped up and said this is wrong...”

It is odd. And knowing several retired agents and having several in my family tree who died several years ago in their ‘80’s, I would normally agree. However, I have a background in LE and know the the FBI always runs investigations from their field offices, except for this one. I suspect the perps in this case kept their scheme close to their vests and the agents in the field were not aware of the scope. To cover their nefarious activity, the Comey crowd probably disguised the case pretty well from the rest of the agency. The two ex-agents I know, who live in the neighborhood, are mad as hell at Comey and his cohorts and would volunteer be on the firing squad. They talk about it whenever I see them. We are good friends. (and are Trump supporters.)

[a little elbow grease]

"Bill and Hillary - the worst that has ever happened to the USA."

____________

Yes

I see those two as a foul couple of rancid devils with a fifty gallon barrel of thick slime, they both have trowels and they constantly scoop out the slime and wiping it all over anything around them that is good.

From low grifters to world corruption..... Bill and Hillary deserve a rotten eternity. .

[a little elbow grease]

The question in my mind is “Can Chris Wallace survive at Fox if he lobs softballs at Comey and Schiff?”

________

LMAO .... lobbing softballs to lefties is his job.

Wallace's lips don't look like an anal sphincter for nothing.

Shittlips lobbing softballs to Schifftless.

[Norseman]

I suspected that Chris Wallace would make this a tough interview for Comey, because after seeing the IG report Wallace must have realized the extent to which he’d been misled over the past two years.

And he tried, he really did, and succeeded in part, but really never nailed Comey to the wall. So now he’s learned something else: that Comey is far slipperier and dishonest than he ever suspected.

Whether he realizes it or not, Wallace is on the way back to joining the Trump Team, i.e., the side that wants actual honest reporting, not just claims of honest reporting.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Comey: "It's incredibly hard to get a FISA."

In Comey's imaginary universe. Or maybe he meant that it took a of hard work to set up a system in which FISA warrants are rubber stamped.

[GOPJ]

So it was only the “procedures” at fault?

Yep, we gotta stop that 'procedure violence'...

[a little elbow grease]

Or maybe he meant that it took a of hard work to set up a system in which FISA warrants are rubber stamped.

________

Yes sir, sounds much more correct.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

PJ O'Roarke:

It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.

[a little elbow grease]

PJ O'Roarke:

____

..... one funny guy.

:-)

[Syncro]

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," [Oh come on, how more Clintonesque can he get?] 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."

Still delusion. The Father of Lies has taken him over...along with many other Trump haters.

He needs to get his comeuppance, pay the piper, and be indicted, tried, convicted and sentenced to the gallows.

[Syncro]

PJ O’Roarke:

Needs to change ‘waste’ to ‘steal’ so they can use the money to destroy our Constitutional Republic.

[yesthatjallen]

"He's right. I was wrong. I was overconfident in the procedures the FBI and Justice had built over 20 years."

One question: Were any innocent people railroaded by the FBI because agents were wrong and overconfident?

[laplata]

He’s caught and he knows it. He’s trying to slither out from under it.

[Windflier]

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

Okay, I took it to the bank and they said, "Show us the money." I had nothing, so they called security, who threw me in the street.

Buddy, we're sick to death of all the talk and promises. It's been three years and all of the coup plotters are walking around Scot free, thumbing their noses at us.

Come to the table with some real world results, or STFU.

[Tennessean4Bush]

LOL! I would not hold my breath if I were you...

[Inspectorette]

Outside of Gutfield weekend Fox is unwatchable.

Jesse Watters and Judge Jeanine on Saturday are both great.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Congress has renamed “stealing” to “taxing.” O-care “mandate” is also a “tax” thanks to Roberts.

[Sam Gamgee]

I think we all know why Comey and Schiff chose Wallace to interview them on Fox. No way in hell they would have chose Brit Hume, or Tucker, Hannity or Ingraham.