Comey Questions AG Barr, Claims The FBI ‘Doesn’t Spy’

WATCH: Barr to investigate FBI conduct in Russia probe

Attorney General William Barr told a Senate panel last month that he believed federal authorities spied on the Trump campaign.

“Spying on a campaign is a big deal,” Barr told the panel. “I think spying did occur. The question is whether it was adequately predicated.”

“I am not saying that improper surveillance occurred,” Barr added. “I am concerned about it. There is a basis for my concern.”

Former FBI Director James Comey is now weighing in.

He appeared on CBS “This Morning” and definitively stated that the FBI didn’t spy.

“The attorney general said he believed spying occurred in looking at the president’s then campaign. what you do think of that?” John Dickerson asked.

Comey said he has “no idea” what the attorney general is talking about.

"The FBI doesn’t spy, the FBI investigates." — James @Comey pic.twitter.com/wmQjkeFXp6

— CBS Mornings (@CBSMornings) May 8, 2019

“I have no idea what he’s talking about,” Comey said. “The FBI doesn’t spy, the FBI investigates. We investigated a very serious allegation that Americans might be hooked up with the Russian effort to attack our democracy.”

Based on faulty information, but mmmkay.

“Republicans need to breathe into a paper bag,” Comey added. “If we had confronted the same facts with a different candidate, say a Democrat candidate, where one of their advisers was talking to a foreign adversary’s representative, about that adversary’s interference in our election, they would be screaming for the FBI to investigate and that’s all we did.”