During a closed-door sit down with Congressional lawmakers James Comey did not offer much information. But he did let something slip. The former director of the FBI admitted that their attainment of FISA warrants against the Trump campaign was flawed. The information used was tainted and should never have been relied upon.
According to The Daily Wire:
James Comey, the former FBI director fired by President Trump after he botched the handling of the Hillary Clinton investigation, testified in a closed-door meeting Friday in front of congressional leaders, and some of his responses, including his repeated claims of lack of knowledge or recall, have caused a stir. Perhaps most notable of his comments is his admission that FBI officials had not verified the information in the notorious Democrat-funded Steele dossier when they used it to obtain a FISA warrant for a Trump associate.
On Friday, Comey acknowledged under oath that the FBI used an uncorroborated document funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC as “evidence” in officials’ request for a FISA warrant to surveil Trump adviser Carter Page, a key step in the Russia collusion “witch hunt,” as Trump calls it. Not only was the dossier, produced by ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, not verified when it was used in the Carter request, Comey admitted, it was still unverified when he was fired six months later.
The Hill’s John Solomon, who has been closely following the developments in the Russia probe, highlights the “enormity” of Comey’s bombshell acknowledgment that his “investigative team (in the form of the Steele dossier) and his general counsel James Baker (in the form of evidence from a Democratic Party lawyer) accepted politically tainted evidence to further the probe of Trump.”
“Everyday Americans now know that the FISA court process is an honor system and that the FBI may only submit evidence it has verified to the judges,” he writes. “Comey now has confirmed what Republican lawmakers like Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), Rep. Mark Meadows(R-N.C.) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) have warned about for months – that the FBI used an unverified dossier, paid for by presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party as political opposition research, to justify spying on the duly nominated GOP candidate for president just weeks before Election Day.”
It was also revealed that the top counsel for the FBI wanted to charge Hillary with mishandling documents, but it was Comey who persuaded him to not do so. Comey also admitted that he never directed agents to investigate the infamous tarmac meeting between former Attorney General Lynch and Bill Clinton.
