Turley Explains Why Comey’s Testimony Might Just ‘Trip The Wire’ Into Perjury

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley appeared Tuesday on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle” and asked if former FBI Director James Comey’s previous 2020 testimony to the Senate could “trip the wire to perjury.”

Both Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan reportedly have been brought under criminal investigation for false testimony to Congress for potential wrongdoing in relation to the push of the infamous Steele dossier, alleging a conspiracy between Russia and President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, according to Fox News Digital. Replaying a clip of Comey’s 2020 testimony to the Senate, in which he pleaded ignorance to significant problems with the Steele dossier, Fox’s Laura Ingraham called the former FBI director’s answer “dismissive.” (RELATED: James Comey Gives FBI Agents Formula For Resisting ‘Evil’ Trump: ‘Sleep, Love, Laugh’)

“Now, I remember listening to that testimony and just almost falling out of my chair,” Turley said. “Virtually everything he said was untrue. In fact, the IG reports shredded the FBI and said that they didn’t follow protocol, that they ignored counterintelligence. So they pushed the Steele dossier forward, and these were two of the key individuals who did that.”

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“So the question is does any of this trip the wire to perjury? Both of these are sophisticated players,” Turley added. “You’ll notice that they’re very careful in how they word this. You know Comey is very careful to say that there wasn’t basically malicious intent. Not that there weren’t mistakes, and time and time again Comey portrayed himself as ignorant of all of these countervailing sources.”

Sources told Fox News Digital Tuesday that an investigation into the two officials is underway, with some describing to the outlet that the FBI is reportedly viewing the two testimonies as “conspiracy.” The probe allegedly stems from an email sent to Brennan in 2016 by the then-deputy CIA director that said including the dossier in the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) could jeopardize “the credibility of the entire paper,” Fox News Digital reported.

Brennan later testified to Congress in May 2023 that the CIA “was very much opposed to having any reference or inclusion of the Steele dossier in the Intelligence Community Assessment.”

“And so they sent over a copy of the dossier to say that this was going to be separate from the rest of that assessment” Brennan said, according to Fox News Digital.

Comey has repeatedly testified to both Congress and the Senate over the years about the Steele dossier, claiming in 2018 that Republicans had initially backed the infamous dossier.

In 2020, the former FBI director later told Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee that not only did his staff not notify him of issues pertaining to the primary source for dossier author Christopher Steele, but he also could not “recall” details of a briefing on the issues about the DOJ’s concerns regarding Steele’s political bias against Trump.

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