Former FBI Director James Comey keeps claiming the FBI doesn’t “spy” on people. Few on our side of the aisle pay him much mind.
Let’s try a thought experiment. Suppose the FBI got permission from a FISA judge to surveil an American, and suppose they did so fraudulently, with intel they knew to be bogus. In other words, the FBI pulled the wool over the judge’s eyes.
What would Comey call the surveillance under those circumstances of insufficient predicate? If not “spying,” then what? Would he prefer “snooping” or “invasion of privacy” or what? I believe he needs to answer this question in an unambiguous fashion.
The politicization of our law enforcement and intelligence agencies is entirely unacceptable, very much Third World behavior.
