As we told you yesterday, former FBI Director James Comey, who was the head of the bureau during the time of the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election, responded to Attorney General Bill Barr saying that he does believe the Trump campaign was spied on. In the interview, Comey said he doesn’t consider electronic surveillance to be “spying.”

James @Comey: "I've never thought of" electronic surveillance as "spying" pic.twitter.com/OMspnuD8MN — Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) April 11, 2019

Ari Fleischer put Comey’s comments into perspective:

Often, the people or governments who carry out surveillance don’t see it as “spying”. Always, the people on the receiving end of surveillance do see it as “spying”. This isn’t complicated. https://t.co/0nJqxrEDcN — Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) April 12, 2019

Also, if Comey was the one being surveilled he might have a different take on what constitutes “spying.”

The scary question: is @Comey Actually as dumb as he makes himself to be? How the hell did he #PeterPrinciple himself to such a high level? I'm astonished — Cullen Burns (@CullenBurnsCD29) April 12, 2019

Nailed it — Mike Petrilli (@Mikepetril) April 12, 2019

It should be absolutely terrifying to every American that this man was in charge of the FBI, John Brennan was in charge of the CIA, and James Clapper was in charge of the NSA – all at the same time. — Nathan Hale (@KawRiverPatriot) April 12, 2019

What “Deep State”?

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