First published at 20:32 UTC on December 20th, 2019.
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If you happened to watch former FBI Director James Comey’s interview last Sunday with Chris Wallace, you may recall that Comey tried to distance himself from the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign. He also attributed the mistakes and omissions during the FISA Court application process to “sloppiness” and claimed he “didn’t know the particulars of the investigation.”
Attorney General William Barr responded to these remarks (spoiler – he debunked them) and much more during a wide-ranging interview with Fox News’ Martha MacCallum. The first half of their discussion was aired on Thursday night and the rest will be aired on Friday.
Right out of the gate, MacCallum asked Barr if he was surprised that Comey is so convinced that all of this was completely above board. He responded, “I think the IG report and the recent letter from the FISA Court pulls the rug out from under that analysis. There was serious misconduct as the court itself has said.”
Barr referred to Horowitz’ testimony. Last week, Horowitz had said “on the one hand, the mistakes could at the very least be gross incompetence, on the other hand, it could also be improper motive…that’s why we have John Durham looking into this.”
MacCallum asked Barr to respond to Comey’s remarks. Barr explained, “Some of them [the errors and omissions] were very hard to square with mistakes and sloppiness. A number of these episodes leave open the possibilities of inferring bad faith or improper motive…I’ve reached no determination on that, nor do I think a final determination is appropriat..
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