The Republican chairmen who demanded Congress get access to James Comey’s memos blasted him late Thursday, saying the revelations they contain show he “was blind to biases within the FBI and had terrible judgment with respect to his deputy Andrew McCabe.”
The Comey memos, provided to Congress and obtained by the Washington Examiner document seven conversations he had with President Trump from Jan. 7, 2017, through April 11, 2017.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., pushed for the release of the memos, and they say what is in them show Comey “has at least two different standards in his interactions with others.”
“He chose not to memorialize conversations with President Obama, Attorney General Lynch, Secretary Clinton, Andrew McCabe or others, but he immediately began to memorialize conversations with President Trump,” they said.
The lawmakers want to know why Comey only wanted to memorialize his conversations with Trump, but not with other Justice Department officials he had concerns about — such as Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
“The memos show Comey was blind to biases within the FBI and had terrible judgment with respect to his deputy Andrew McCabe. On multiple occasions he, in his own words, defended the character of McCabe after President Trump questioned McCabe,” they said.
McCabe was fired last month by Attorney General Jeff Sessions for lack of candor and lying to investigators, and he and Comey have been trading barbs all week about if McCabe’s firing was judged.
