Comey’s remarks about Trump dossier are not credible, says former FBI official

A former assistant director of intelligence at the FBI said Thursday he finds it hard to believe that former FBI Director James Comey was initially unaware of who paid for compiling what's become known as the Steele dossier, a file that contained largely unverified allegations about President Trump’s ties to Russia.

“We just had James Comey say in front of Congress last week that he didn’t even know that the [Democratic National Committee] actually funded the dossier that was used to get the surveillance started. Do you find that credible?” Hill.TV’s Buck Sexton asked Kevin Brock, who worked at the FBI for 23 years.

“No, I do not,” said Brock, the founder and principal of public safety firm NewStreet Global Solutions. “I don’t have an opinion on whether he lied or not, but it stretches credulity, in my view, that FBI in possession of this dossier would not have known the source and how it started.”

Brock added that Comey is “throwing the entire rest of the FBI under the bus” by suggesting he was not adequately briefed, adding that this lack of information is “hard to believe.”

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