EXCERPT:
HAWLEY: “Yeah, but that’s not what they did here. In this case the FISA Court said that they had reason to doubt the reliability of FBI applications across cases because of the level of misleading information that you personally signed off on. Do you regret your role in this unprecedented misleading of a FISA court?”
COMEY: “I don’t regret my role, I regret that it happened.”
HAWLEY: “Why not?”
COMEY: “I’m sorry?”
HAWLEY: “Why don’t you regret your role in the unprecedented misleading of a FISA Court?”
COMEY: “I regret that the FBI supplied information to a FISA Court that was inaccurate, incomplete and should have been updated.”
HAWLEY: “Do you regret that you signed off on it?”
COMEY: “I regret that it happened. The only reason I’m hesitating is, What the FBI director does in connection with a FISA is actually very narrow. But put that to the side. It’s important that it be accurate, and it wasn’t and I regret that very much.”