James Comey
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard 12 May
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Yeah, unfamiliar to me.
One of the strictest rules in the FBI would be you can't consume alcohol on FBI premises or vehicles or airplane.
The day I was fired, I flew home.
And it occurred to me that I was no longer an employee, so I could drink some Pinot Noir that someone had given me in California.
So I opened a bottle of wine on the plane and drank, not all of it, but part of it in a paper coffee cup, because I was allowed to, because I was no longer the director of the FBI.
And so that's how tight it is.
And so the rest of it is just unfamiliar to me.
And
Yeah, very, very foreign.
And the thing about the polygraphs is it's really important you not send a chilling message through your staff because you need them to tell you the truth.
What you might be missing, what you might not be seeing, what you should hesitate before you speak about.
And if they're afraid of you, they're not going to give you the truth.
And that, even if you have no other care for them, that gets in your way of being effective.
But no swag that I remember, no swag that I recall other than the challenge coins.
Yes.
24 hours a day.
It's the reason that the FBI director gets no vacation, because the idea is you're on all the time.
And so I could never be intoxicated.
I remember I went to a wedding in Iowa of one of my wife's family members, and I went to the wedding reception, and I'm sure I had a drink or two, but it was really important that I not be intoxicated.
So I went back to my
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