The firing of James Comey as FBI director last year prompted the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel in charge of the Justice Department’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images 'That's it?' Comey rips House committee over memo

Former FBI Director James Comey lobbed criticism at Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee on Friday, asking his Twitter followers, “That’s it?” after the release of a disputed and much-hyped memo about alleged bias at the FBI and Department of Justice.

Comey suggested that the memo had failed to offer proof of malfeasance while doing significant damage to the intelligence community.


“That’s it? Dishonest and misleading memo wrecked the House intel committee, destroyed trust with Intelligence Community, damaged relationship with FISA court, and inexcusably exposed classified investigation of an American citizen,” Comey tweeted. “For what? DOJ & FBI must keep doing their jobs.”

The memo, written by the staff of the House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) and released on Friday with the blessing of President Donald Trump, contends that the FBI obtained and then renewed surveillance warrants against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page based on a salacious and unverified dossier of information about the president compiled by a former British intelligence officer, Christopher Steele.

The memo suggests that the bureau and the Justice Department acted improperly in seeking and renewing the warrant against Page because they did not disclose in its documentation seeking the warrant that Steele’s dossier had been funded in part by Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee.

It was Comey’s firing from his position as FBI director last year that prompted the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel in charge of the Justice Department’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and allegations that the Trump campaign or individuals connected to it colluded in those efforts. Trump said in an interview days after the firing that he had removed Comey from the bureau with the ongoing Russia investigation weighing on his mind.

