FBI Director James Comey appeared before the House Oversight Committee Wednesday, where Congressional Republicans unloaded on him for giving immunity to people they accused of being liars. “The more FBI Director Comey talks about integrity of the e-mail investigation, the less Republicans and critics seem convinced,” reported Fox News’ Chief Intelligence Correspondent Catherine Herridge on Special Report. But even such incendiary accusations flying around a congressional hearing, ABC, CBS, and NBC yawned.
The segment on Special Report opened up with fiery statements from two Republican representatives. Including Representative Trey Gowdy (R-SC) who scolded Comey, saying, “When you have five immunity agreements and no prosecution; When you are allowing witnesses who happen to be lawyers who happen to be targets to sit in on an interview, that is not the FBI that I used to work with.”
Comey shot back at Gowdy claiming he was driven solely by politics, “I hope someday when this political craziness is over you will look back again on this, cause this is the FBI you know and love.” The FBI director’s combativeness crept up in other statements, such as when he defended his people saying, “You can call us wrong, but don’t call us weasels. We are not weasels, we’re honest people.”
According to Herridge, committee members accused at least two of the FBI’s witnesses of lying to the federal agency. She also reported that Comey “struggled” to explain why Paul Combetta, an IT specialist who handled Clinton’s private server, got to keep his immunity when he was caught trying to delete Reddit posts where he asked for help in wiping Clinton’s e-mail address from the server.
At the hearing, Comey also admitted to not working with Congress to coordinate the granting of immunity, which Herridge said “could derail the ongoing investigations.”
The liberal networks’ lack of coverage of the hearing proves that they are trying to move on from Clinton’s damaging e-mail scandal. But as Congress continues to question and dig, the media’s efforts to ignore the story could prove to be in vain.