Barr Fires Back At Comey: FBI’s “Unexplained Misconduct” Can’t Be Explained Away As Mistakes

Who will get the last word in this escalating war of words — James Comey or William Barr? The former FBI director took a swipe at the Attorney General on Sunday after Barr declared that he has reason to doubt Michael Horowitz’ conclusion about a lack of evidence of bias in Operation Crossfire Hurricane. In his interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, Comey insisted that Barr had no “factual basis” for such a claim: Comey repeatedly defended the men and women of his former agency throughout the segment and appeared to take particular offense to Barr’s comment that the inaccuracies and omissions in the FBI’s applications for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants for former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page may have been committed in bad faith.-- More...