{"id":1846,"date":"2019-12-19T16:02:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T20:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=1846"},"modified":"2019-12-19T16:02:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T20:02:09","slug":"barr-slams-comey-for-outright-lies-about-his-leadership-of-fbi-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=1846","title":{"rendered":"Barr Slams Comey for Outright Lies About His Leadership of FBI Coup"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Barr Says Comey Lying Over Attempt To Distance Himself From FBI Quagmire<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>James Comey&#8217;s claim that the FBI&#8217;s Trump-Russia investigation was run &#8220;seven layers&#8221; below him\u00a0<strong>is a total lie<\/strong>\u00a0according to Attorney General William Barr, who said that the FBI&#8217;s probe was actually handled by a &#8220;<strong>very small group of very high level officials<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/comey%20barr%201.png?itok=kBC1BNyi\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/comey%20barr%201.png?itok=kBC1BNyi\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/comey%20barr%201.png?itok=lEfUrF7E 1x\" type=\"image\/png\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1280px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/comey%20barr%201.png?itok=lEfUrF7E 1x\" type=\"image\/png\" media=\"all and (min-width: 480px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/comey%20barr%201.png?itok=lEfUrF7E 1x, https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/comey%20barr%201.png?itok=lEfUrF7E 2x\" type=\"image\/png\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1024px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/comey%20barr%201.png?itok=lEfUrF7E 1x\" type=\"image\/png\" media=\"all and (min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/comey%20barr%201.png?itok=kBC1BNyi 1x\" type=\"image\/png\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/comey%20barr%201.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"305\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"c25c827c-1f65-4832-81b4-8cf6730a6fe8\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To review, Comey told &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; that as the director of the FBI, he was &#8220;seven layers&#8221; above the investigation, and that he left things to the career professionals when &#8217;17 serious errors&#8217; occurred which were later uncovered by the Inspector General.<\/p>\n<div class=\"max-width-video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"fitvid135475\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1yfXxeJn3Tc?start=488\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Au contraire Comey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The idea that this was seven layers below him\u00a0<strong>is simply not true<\/strong>,&#8221; Barr told\u00a0<em>Fox<\/em>&#8216;s Martha MacCallum in a Wednesday interview, adding &#8220;I think that one of the problems with what happened was precisely that they pulled the investigation up to the executive floors, and\u00a0<strong>it was run and birddogged by a very small group of very high level officials<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watch:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">AG Barr on Comey &#39;seven layers&#39; above the investigation:<\/p>\n<p>One of the problems that happened is the investigation was pulled up to the executive floors &amp; was run by a very small group of very high level officials. <br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0jA1eoM0kM\">https:\/\/t.co\/0jA1eoM0kM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Red Nation Rising (@RedNationRising) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RedNationRising\/status\/1207681796864925701?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 19, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to the Inspector General&#8217;s report, the FBI withheld exculpatory information on former Trump campaign aide Carter Page when submitting an application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to spy on him.<\/p>\n<p>And according to the\u00a0<em>Daily Caller<\/em>, the report also noted that Comey was directly involved in plans to open operation Crossfire Hurricane after reviewing the initial FISA application on Page.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/barr-says-comey-lying-over-attempt-distance-himself-fbi-quagmire\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/barr-says-comey-lying-over-attempt-distance-himself-fbi-quagmire<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barr Says Comey Lying Over Attempt To Distance Himself From FBI Quagmire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}