“We have no basis to conclude she [Hillary Clinton] lied to the FBI.” BasesClintonLiedFbi Author:James Comey
“The FBI also discovered several thousand work-related e-mails that were not in the group of 30,000 that were returned by Secretary Clinton to State in 2014... I should add here that we found no evidence that any of the additional work-related e-mails were intentionally deleted in an effort to conceal them.” ShouldStatesFoundEffortGroupsThousandEvidenceAddClintonRelatedMailSecretaryFbiWork Related Author:James Comey
“The Clinton investigation was a completed investigation that the FBI had been deeply involved in, so I had an opportunity to understand all the facts and apply those facts against the law as I understood them. This investigation was under way - still going when I was fired. So it's nowhere near in the same place.” OpportunityClintonFbi Author:James Comey
“What we do is we combine information collected from any lawful source in a single FBI database so we don't miss a dot when we're conducting investigations in the United States. What we make sure of, though, is nobody gets to see FISA information of any kind unless they've had the appropriate training and have the appropriate oversight.” KindMissingTrainingFbi Author:James Comey
“It is a little bit difficult to talk about things that do involve classified matters in public. But I think the public needs to know that there are multiple oversight layers, including the FISA Court, congressional oversight, internal oversight within the FBI and intelligence community, that protects Americans from - under - their - their privacy rights while targeting terrorists and people who are trying to kill us.” PeopleThinkingTryingDifficultCommunityProtectTerroristPrivacyMultipleFbi Author:James Comey
“In our counterterrorism cases and our counterintelligence cases, we can issue all kinds of - of layers of approval in the FBI, a national security letter to find out the subscriber to a particular telephone number and to find out what numbers that telephone number was in contact with. Not the content of those communications, but just the connection.” KindSecurityCommunicationAll KindsNational SecurityFbi Author:James Comey
“Sometimes the FBI is assigned to do background checks on people who are coming into government in the executive office of the president. Other times, not. A lot of times there are people who are arriving with clearances that already exist.” PeopleSometimesPresidentOfficeFbi Author:James Comey
