Comey Speaks Out Following His Closed-Door Testimony

Former FBI Director James Comey finally testified behind closed doors.

Rep. Darrell Issa says Comey’s lawyers prevented him from answering a number of crucial questions.

One of the disappointments of this deposition so far has been the amount of times in which the FBI believes that Congress doesn’t have a right to know,” Issa said.

Issa said Comey has two attorneys, including one from the DOJ, who have “instructed” the former FBI director not to answer “a great many questions that are clearly items at the core of our investigation.” Issa said the instructions have been followed with Comey’s “gleeful acceptance.”

“The Department of Justice is going to have to agree to allow him to come back and answer a great many questions that currently he is not answering,” Issa said.

Comey briefly spoke to the press following his testimony, and he was smug as all get out.

"After a full day of questioning, two things are clear to me. One, we could have done this in open setting, and two, when you read the transcript you will see that we're talking again about Hillary Clinton's e-mails for heaven's sakes" -Ex-FBI Dir. Comey https://t.co/LTVrZd6Czb pic.twitter.com/7yFBL6WLtR

— CNN (@CNN) December 8, 2018

James @Comey: "The president's attacks on the Justice Department broadly, and the FBI, are something that no matter what political party you're in you should find deeply troubling and continue to speak out about." pic.twitter.com/H0J3YgZYTA

— CSPAN (@cspan) December 7, 2018

James Comey dismisses questions he was asked about his controversial handling of Hillary's criminal investigation: “When you read the transcript you will see that we were talking again about Hillary Clinton’s emails for heaven’s sakes, so I’m not sure we need to do this at all” pic.twitter.com/dgnpUxqoEe

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) December 7, 2018

Reporter asks James Comey: “Did you have total confidence in the dossier when you used it to secure a surveillance warrant and also in the subsequent renewals?”

Comey doesn’t answer the question, calls the notion of FISA abuse "nonsense" pic.twitter.com/bTv9kXloih

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) December 7, 2018

Also, he tweeted this.

Today wasn’t a search for truth, but a desperate attempt to find anything that can be used to attack the institutions of justice investigating this president. They came up empty today but will try again. In the long run, it'll make no difference because facts are stubborn things.

— James Comey (@Comey) December 8, 2018

What a piece of work.