“There’s a number of behaviors in Comey that ... have really cast the FBI in the worst possible light," ex-FBI official Frank Figliuzzi said on Yahoo's "Skullduggery" podcast.
A former senior FBI official told Yahoo News that the Justice Department’s highly unusual and controversial motion to dismiss the criminal case against President Trump’s former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn was filled with “half truths” and “distortions.”
“There’s a number of behaviors in Comey that in retrospect have really cast the FBI in the worst possible light, which is to cast them in a political light,” Figliuzzi said in a Tuesday interview with Yahoo News’“I wish Comey had gotten the approval to do so [interview Flynn]. I’m not sure politically that he would have been allowed to do so.
“He seems to fail to understand that he’s accountable to bosses at DOJ,” Figliuzzi said. “He’s worn those powerful hats before and he seems unable to take those hats off so he pulls triggers that most FBI directors wouldn’t think of pulling.” Flynn’s supporters and many on the right have seized on Priestap's notes as evidence of misconduct. But Figliuzzi defended the note-taking as routine and said the decision to interview Flynn about his conversations with the Russian ambassador was more than justified in light of the Bureau’s ongoing Russia investigation.
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