Former FBI Chief James Comey admitted that he was “overconfident” when he defended the FBI’s use of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to probe Trump campaign members for Russian meddling in the presidential election back in 2016.
Comey’s Sunday comments followed the Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz concluding in his report that three separate teams made errors in the FISA application process that started the investigation into four members of the Trump campaign, Newsweek reported.
“He’s right, I was wrong,” Comey said of the FBI’s use of the FISA process.
But Comey rebuked Fox News anchor Chris Wallace’s insistence that Horowitz’s report accused him of gross negligence or intending to lie to the FISA court. The IG report found “significant inaccuracies and omissions” in the FISA applications.
“That’s why I’m telling you I was wrong, I was overconfident as director in our procedures … which was not acceptable,” Comey said on Fox News Sunday.
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