Comey: ‘I Think That’s Fair’ to Say that FISA Court Was Given False Information by the FBI

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WALLACE: "I mean, you make it sound like it's not much."
COMEY: "No. No. It's very important."
WALLACE: "It's quite a lot."
COMEY: "It's very important."
WALLACE: "I mean, not a source -- a source to not a source is a big deal."
COMEY: "But remember how we got here. The FBI was accused of criminal misconduct. Remember, I was going to jail, and lots of other people were going to jail. People on this network said it over, and over, and over again. The Inspector General did not find misconduct by FBI personnel, did not find political bias, did not find illegal conduct. The Inspector General found significant mistakes, and that is not something to sneeze at; that's really important. But the American people -- especially your viewers -- need to realize, they were given false information about the FBI. It's honest. It is not political. It is flawed."
WALLACE: "Would you agree that the FISA court was also given false information by the FBI?"
COMEY: "I think that's fair. The FBI should have included -- or at least pushed to the lawyers, so they could make a decision -- information that you just said, things like that, that another agency -- not a source relationship, but some kind of contact relationship --"
WALLACE: "Okay."