More than a year after President Donald Trump fired James Comey as director of the FBI, he's still "playing games" with Congress, Rep. Bob Goodlatte, one of the congressmen to question Comey, said Tuesday.
"We've interviewed 14 other witnesses, all of whom who had security clearances but lost them when they were fired went and got them back on a temporary basis," the Virginia Republican, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, told Fox News' "America's Newsroom." "James Comey refused to do that."
That meant if the interview was moved into discussion of classified information, Comey would not have been able to answer questions, as they were classified and he wouldn't have had clearance to talk about them, said Goodlatte.
"That's the kind of things we've had to put up with Mr. Comey," said Goodlatte. "It was also very interesting that when (then-Attorney General) Loretta Lynch told Mr. Comey to treat the Clinton investigation as a matter, he didn't seek a special counsel, and when Loretta Lynch met with president Bill Clinton on the tarmac right before the announcement was made regarding that investigation, he didn't seek a special counsel.
However, when Comey was fired, "that's when he engaged in leaking documents in order to get a special counsel appointed," said Goodlatte.
Comey also complained to reporters that lawmakers asked him questions about old news and that he didn't learn anything new.
"We didn't learn as much as we would like because James Comey continued his pattern of answering questions that he liked answering and not answering for a variety of reasons, including 'I don't know, I don't recall, I don't remember, it's classified,'" said Goodlatte.
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