The Briefing Room
General Category => Trump Legal Investigations => Topic started by: Bigun on December 12, 2019, 06:38:11 pm
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James Comey will go down as most corrupt FBI director ever: Expert panel on FISA report (https://www.foxnews.com/media/james-comey-corrupt-fbi-director-horowitz-fisa)
Fox News legal and political analyst Gregg Jarrett asked a panel of defense lawyers and former federal prosecutors how ex-FBI Director James Comey will be remembered by history in the wake of the Justice Department Inspector General's report on the FBI investigation into the Trump 2016 presidential campaign.
The answers weren't good for the former FBI chief.
"Michael Goodwin, a columnist for The New York Post, wrote... J. Edgar Hoover can now rest peacefully because James Comey is now the most corrupt FBI director ever," observed Jarrett on Fox Nation's "Witch Hunt" on Tuesday.
"I think that that's probably accurate," said defense attorney Tim Parlatore, who represented retired Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher, whose war crimes sentence was overturned after President Donald Trump intervened in his case.
"You don't make mistakes when you're doing an investigation of this magnitude," said Parlatore, in reference to the 17 significant errors of omission in the FBI’s application to surveil former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
"We're not talking about a single person made a mistake. A whole team. A whole team," he continued. "They set it up so that there'd be redundancy. So there'd be supervision and supervision from the top. And so the ability to bypass all those safeguards to make mistakes is just not credible."...
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I agree while knowing all about the exploits fo J. Edger Hoover.
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