Reps. Goodlatte & Gowdy Release Comey Interview Transcript; Urge Justice Department to Investigate

By Jim Kouri  /  Conservative Base

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) today released the transcript of the second day of former FBI Director James Comey’s interview before the Committees.

In October 2017, the House Judiciary Committee and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee opened a joint investigation into decisions made by the Justice Department in 2016 and 2017. To date, the Committees have interviewed many key witnesses and have reviewed thousands of pages of documents.

Also, Goodlatte  and Trey Gowdy sent a letter to Acting Attorney General Matthew G. Whitaker, Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

In that letter, they urged the Justice Department to continue investigating  the allegations against the Justice Department and the FBI in order “to identify and eliminate bias” at the federal law enforcement agencies “so the public can trust the institutions to make decisions solely on the facts and the law and totally devoid of political bias or consideration.”

“Our 2016 presidential candidates were not treated equally,” Goodlatte and Gowdy wrote in a statement accompanying the release of the letter. “The investigators in both investigations were biased against President Trump.”

“They are absolutely right. If every police department and sheriff’s office behaved the way we saw the FBI behave in their investigations of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, the nation’s justice system would turn into a fascist legal system treating the rich and well-heeled one way while treating the powerless another,” said political consultant Mike Baker.

The transcript of Mr. Comey’s interview can be found HERE. 

EXECUTIVE SESSION
COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY,
JOINT WITH THE
COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND GOVERNMENT REFORM,
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
WASHINGTON, D.C.

INTERVIEW OF: JAMES COMEY

Monday, December 17, 2018
Washington, D.C.
The interview in the above matter was held in Room 2141,
Rayburn House Office Building, commencing at 10:13 a.m.
Members Present: Representatives Goodlatte, Jordan, Gowdy,
Ratcliffe, Johnson of Georgia, Meadows, Cummings, and Clay.

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Jim-Kouri

Jim Kouri, CPP, is founder and CEO of Kouri Associates, a homeland security, public safety and political consulting firm. He’s formerly Fifth Vice-President, now a Board Member of the National Association of Chiefs of Police, a columnist, and a contributor to the nationally syndicated talk-radio program, the Chuck Wilder Show.. He’s former chief of police at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed “Crack City” by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at St. Peter’s University and director of security for several major organizations. He’s also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country.