Rep. Lee Zeldin (R–NY) blasted James Comey this past Tuesday, saying he wondered if the former Director of the FBI read General Michael Horowitz’s report before running a victory lap on Twitter.
In that much-anticipated report, Horowitz noted “significant concerns with how certain aspects of the investigation were conducted and supervised.”
Apparently, all Comey heard was the IG saying his investigators found “no intentional misconduct or political bias” in the FBI’s seeking of a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to secretly monitor Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
Comey responded in a Tweet: “So it was all lies. No treason. No spying on the campaign. No tapping Trump’s wires. It was just good people trying to protect America.”
But that isn’t what Horowitz concluded at all. What the IG probe found were at least 17 “significant inaccuracies and omissions” in filing for the report. That included altering email, so it pointed to the opposite of what transpired.
Zelding said on Fox Business, “It’s quite dishonest … this spin of trying to put on a strong face … [Comey] is not acknowledging … all of the mistakes that were made … and he [was] the FBI director.”
Watch the video and see why Sen. Rand Paul says James Comey will go down in history not only as “being sanctimonious partisan” but as being the guy to “do more to damage the FBI” than J. Edgar Hoover.
