Comey calls House Intelligence Committee's Russia investigation 'a wreck'
Former FBI director James B. Comey on Sunday called the House Intelligence Committee’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election “a wreck” and deemed its report a “political document.”
In a conversation about his book, “A Higher Loyalty,” on NBC News’s “Meet the Press,” Comey said the report, released by House Republicans on Friday, did not represent his “understanding of what the facts were” before he left the FBI. Comey was fired by President Trump in May.
“The most important piece of work is the one the special counsel is doing now,” Comey told anchor Chuck Todd. “This [the House committee report] strikes me as a political document.”
Comey said he did not think that the House Intelligence Committee served a useful investigative purpose with regard to the probe of Russia’s influence operation.
Partisanship “wrecked the committee,” he said. “And it damaged relationships with the FISA [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] court, the intelligence communities. It’s just a wreck.”
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