After taking a victory lap last week, James Comey shocked everyone by apologizing for the FBI’s “gross misconduct” in obtaining FISA warrants to spy on President Donald Trump’s campaign.
Comey headed the FBI from 2013 until he was fired by incoming President Donald Trump in 2017.
After inspector general Michael Horowitz released his long-awaited report last week, Comey called the report “ridiculous” and claimed it vindicated him of any bias toward Trump.
But the inspector general’s report found 17 “significant errors and omissions” by the FBI who presented this falsified info to a judge in order to obtain FISA warrants to spy on Trump’s 2016 campaign.
Comey was still claiming victory for himself until he sat down for an interview with Fox News Sunday on Dec. 15. He suddenly remembered being responsible for “real sloppiness” over the handling of the FISA warrant to spy on a Trump campaign adviser.
He said his earlier defense of the FBI was “wrong”, and that inspector general Horowitz “was right.”
Comey’s confession sent the liberal news media reeling on Sunday.
According to the Guardian.com, Comey may have changed his tune after President Trump threatened “years in jail.”
“I was overconfident in the procedures that the FBI had built over 20 years,” Comey said on Sunday. “I thought they were robust enough. It’s incredibly hard to get a Fisa and [Horowitz] was right: there was real sloppiness. It was not acceptable.”
According to the Guardian, Comey’s sudden change of heart gives Trump and the Republicans the fuel they need to continue to attack the FBI as the heart of the “deep state”.
