James Comey
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a room early, left my wife to party with the relatives.
She came home, and she may have had more glasses than I had, so she accidentally placed something on top of an emergency button that the security team had placed in the room.
And so within 10 seconds, there was a pounding on the door, and she opened the door, and there were stacks of agents in their underwear down each side of the hall with their weapons, demanding to see me.
And she said, he's fine.
And they said, man, we need to see the director.
And she said, okay.
She let one of the agents step in and see me sleeping.
I slept through the whole thing, believe it or not, and was not drunk, but slept through the whole thing.
So to my mind, when I heard stories about it, whether true or not, I don't know, of the agents being unable to reach the director reminded me of that story.
They found it on the door and needed to see the director.
And of course, there I was, not intoxicated, but asleep.
It's a reasonable and serious worry because the organization has been demoralized, shrunken, deployed in ways that are hard to understand from the outside, moving people to immigration work or other work away from their core responsibility when the FBI does that no one else can do.
is counterterrorism and counterintelligence.
So counterterrorism is obvious, but counterintelligence, which is actually what the newest book is about, is to meet the threat from Iran, from Russia, from China, requires sustained effort by highly trained people who have the sources, who have the knowledge to meet that threat and defeat it.
And the idea that they are afraid of being polygraphed, afraid of being walked out, moved over to do nighttime immigration, car stops,
around the country makes no sense to me at all.
And maybe we'll be fine.
And actually, that would be the best of all outcomes.
If nothing terrible happens, we don't have to have another commission to look back on this moment.
But I suspect if we, God forbid, we do and look back on this moment, we'll see probably things I haven't even mentioned, but lots and lots of problems with the way in which the mission is being addressed that trace to the leadership.
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