Comey defends FBI's investigation in response to NYT 'spying' report

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Former FBI Director James Comey on Friday defended the bureau actions alleged a day earlier that an informant portrayed a research assistant in order to investigate a Trump foreign policy adviser in 2016.

In a lengthy interview with a Los Angeles radio station, Charles Feldman mentioned the New York Times report and asked Comey about Trump supporters' reaction to it.

“Already some Trump supporters are saying, 'Aha! You see? We are right! The president is right!" Feldman said to Comey. "The FBI and the … so-called deep state, they were spying on an American presidential campaign -- and this story is proof of that.’”

Comey hesitated at first to respond to the KNX 1070 AM host before justifying the FBI’s actions.

“Really? What would you have the FBI do? We discover in the middle of June of 2016 that the Russians were engaged in a massive effort to mess with this democracy to interfere in the election. We're focused on that and at the end of July we learn that a Trump campaign adviser -- two months earlier, before any of this was public -- had talked to a Russian representative about the fact that the Russians had dirt on Hillary Clinton and wanted to arrange to share it with the Trump campaign,” Comey said.

According to the Times report, an informant working for U.S. intelligence posed as a Cambridge University research assistant in September 2016 to try to probe George Papadopoulos, then a Trump foreign policy adviser, on the campaign's possible ties to Russia.

Papadopoulos told Fox News on Thursday that the informant tried to "seduce" him as part of the "bizarre" episode.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/comey-defends-fbis-investigation-in-response-to-nyt-spying-report/ar-AAATaNm?li=BBnb7Kz&item=personalization_enabled:false

Then why did you plead guilty Papadopoulos?

[Wellstone ruled]

1. If you have or had watched the

earlier posted video of Malcolm Nance at USC,you would have heard the ex FBI Agent say,there is a Continuing Counter Intel Investigation ongoing into the Russian Intel operations discussed in the Mueller Report.

[Lars39]

2. That Adam Schiff says he has not been briefed for 18 months,iirc.

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3. It will be a

combination of Adam Schiff,Maxine Waters and Jerry Nadler who will bring Trump down.

As Nance said,Capone went to jail for Tax Fraud and died in jail of a Syphilis. History repeating? Hope so.

[Lars39]

4. I sure hope so!

They’re painstakingly taking every step needed, we’re just impatient.

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5. After about three minutes of Nance's

video,it became very apparent that most of the People Interviewed by Team Mueller either lied or destroyed evidence thus causing the whole effort being mute do to lack of physical evidence that would stand in a Court of Law beyond a reasonable doubt.

So,it is very apparent, every move by anyone associated with Trump was well schooled in what to say or not to say.

[H2O Man]

6. Due to Nunes

going back to White House to report.

[Lars39]

7. Thanks for that "dot", H2O Man

[H2O Man]

9. Glad to.

Nunes is such a pathetic character.

[Nuggets]

8. Comey is such a player.

Comey hesitated at first to respond to the KNX 1070 AM host before justifying the FBI’s actions.

“Really? What would you have the FBI do? We discover in the middle of June of 2016 that the Russians were engaged in a massive effort to mess with this democracy to interfere in the election. We're focused on that and at the end of July we learn that a Trump campaign adviser -- two months earlier, before any of this was public -- had talked to a Russian representative about the fact that the Russians had dirt on Hillary Clinton and wanted to arrange to share it with the Trump campaign,” Comey said.

“As the former chair of the Clinton campaign and a direct target of Russian hacking, I understand just how serious this is. So I was surprised to read in The New York Times that when the FBI discovered the Russian attack in September 2015, it failed to send even a single agent to warn senior Democratic National Committee officials. Instead, messages were left with the DNC IT "help desk." As a former head of the FBI cyber division told the Times, this is a baffling decision: "We are not talking about an office that is in the middle of the woods of Montana." John Podesta

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-fbi-russian-hack-clinton-emails-20161216-story.html