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Comey defends FBI and himself in interview with House panels

ormer FBI director James B. Comey arrives for a closed-door session with House lawmakers Friday on Capitol Hill. Credit: Drew Angerer, Getty Images

Former FBI director James B. Comey’s closed-door interview with House lawmakers on Friday was largely a repetition of themes and facts that have emerged in previous public sessions, according to a transcript of the six-hour session that panel leaders released on Saturday.

Republicans from the House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform committees peppered Comey with questions about the FBI’s investigation into former secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, including whether Comey would have dismissed former officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page from the probe had he known they were exchanging texts disparaging then-presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Comey said he probably would have. However, the former director repeatedly declined to answer questions seeking detailed answers about elements of the FBI’s Russia investigation, which Comey either could not recall — such as who prepared the document launching the bureau’s counterintelligence investigation of individuals affiliated with Trump — or thought came too close to special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s ongoing investigation of Russian interference.

View the complete December 8 article by Karoun Demirjian and Matt Zapotosky on The Washington Post website here.

GOP Senate intel chair rips House committee’s sham Russia probe

The following article by Carolne Orr was posted on the ShareBlue.com website May 9, 2018:

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, walks away from a meeting with House GOP members, on Capitol Hill January 30, 2018 in Washington, DC. Credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images

‘I’m not sure that the House was required to substantiate every conclusion with facts.’

Senate Intelligence Committee chair Richard Burr (R-NC) just threw some serious shade on the the Republican-led House Intelligence Committee’s Russia probe, saying his colleagues didn’t “substantiate every conclusion with facts.”

Burr made the remarks Tuesday, in response to a reporter’s question about whether the Senate intel committee’s report on Russian interference would agree with the findings of the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA). That report concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence operation aimed at helping Trump and hurting Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. Continue reading “GOP Senate intel chair rips House committee’s sham Russia probe”