Comey admits error in defense of FBI's FISA process after IG report: 'He was right, I was wrong'

[txradioguy]

Former FBI Director James Comey admitted on "Fox News Sunday" that the recently released Justice Department Inspector General’s report on the launch of the FBI’s Russia investigation and their use of the surveillance process showed that he was "overconfident" when he defended his former agency's use of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

This comes days after IG Michael Horowitz’s report and testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee detailed concerns that included 17 “significant errors and omissions” by the FBI’s investigative team when applying for a FISA warrant to monitor former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Horowitz referred “the entire chain of command” to the FBI and DOJ for “how to assess and address their performance failures” during the probe, which was conducted while Comey was in charge.

"He's right, I was wrong," Comey said about how the FBI used the FISA process, adding, "I was overconfident as director in our procedures."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/comey-defends-fbis-fisa-process-after-scathing-ig-report

[txradioguy]

That smug...arrogant tweet of his from 9 December where he's proclaiming vindication from the IG report isn't going to age well not that he appearently has actually read the report and sees where he screwed up.

[Wingnut]

I watched that fish-eyed fool dance and try and spin most of Mikes Wallace's direct questions. 

[txradioguy]

n an April 2018 interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, Comey claimed that the FISA process is “incredibly rigorous” and claimed that Republicans’ criticism of the Page FISA warrant was “a political deal” that was not “based in substance or law.”

Following the report’s release, Comey essentially claimed vindication, declaring in the wake of the report that the criticism of the bureau's actions "was all lies.” When asked about vindication at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, the inspector general bluntly replied, "I think the activities we found here don’t vindicate anybody who touched this FISA."

On Sunday, Comey claimed that the FBI did not intentionally commit wrongdoing, but described the FBI's failures as "real sloppiness." He said that "in general" he was unaware of "the particulars of the investigation" when it was going on, but said that as the person at the head of the FBI at the time, it still falls on him.

He's gonna throw as many people in the Hoover building under the bus as he has to in order to save his own ass.

[Axeslinger]

He's gonna throw as many people in the Hoover building under the bus as he has to in order to save his own ass.

@txradioguy

Good!  Bear down him with the full weight of potential prison.   Get this POS to give up the real names that need to be had

[Cyber Liberty]

@txradioguy

Good!  Bear down him with the full weight of potential prison.   Get this POS to give up the real names that need to be had

That would be cool!   

[DCPatriot]

@txradioguy

Good!  Bear down him with the full weight of potential prison.   Get this POS to give up the real names that need to be had

"Potential", my a$$.

He should be an inmate inside GITMO wearing orange and being interrogated by Special Ops.   Waterboarded, if necessary.

This was a treasonous coup attempt. 

James Comey of the Deep State is in Deep Sh*t. 

[rangerrebew]

He must be reading about Abraham Lincoln.  That was one of his ploys to get a jury on his side; concede one minor point to show how "reasonable" you can be, then go for the jugular.

[PeteS in CA]

Caught in a lie, Comey admitted being "wrong". I think, "I was overconfident as director in our procedures," is just a new, less susceptible to fact-checking, lie.

But taking it at face value, Comey's claim admits he was clueless about what the FBI he was supposedly directing was doing.