Danny Coulson: ‘Absolutely Disgusting’ to Watch Comey on TV and Impugn Integrity of FBI Agents

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COULSON: "It’s absolutely disgusting. I was only there for 31 years so I have some sense of the FBI, and currently to see him say that this is normal, this is not normal. There are certain guidelines and principles that we follow. You have to have a preliminary investigation, then a full investigation, but the real problem here, Tucker, is that this case didn’t start with an FBI field office. It started basically on the seventh floor of the FBI. And when it’s done by a field office like Iran–Contra or Watergate, you have checks and balances at the very bottom level. These cases will never get to headquarters. This came across my desk, especially a FISA application. I would have done that in about 5 minutes, we're not approving of this, it’s unverified and salacious. I think the question is here, if it was, and Comey knew it was, why would we have the audacity to walk that to the FISA court and give it as something that would be the basis for taking over a fourth amendment issue and get a search warrant. So it’s not common. It’s aggravating to those of us who were there, I still do a lot of work for the FBI, they're all thinking, did these guys go to the academy? Don’t you know the rules here? Clearly they did and they ignored them. And I think that’s what really upsets us all."