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James Brien Comey Jr. (born December 14, 1960) is an American lawyer, who served as the seventh Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from September 4, 2013, until his dismissal on May 9, 2017. Comey has been a registered Republican for most of his life but has recently described himself as unaffiliated.

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I care a lot about privacy. I also care an awful lot about public safety. There continues to be a huge collision between those two things we care about.

Care, Collision, Huge, Privacy, Safety, Things

We have no basis to conclude she [Hillary Clinton] lied to the FBI.

Clinton, Fbi, Hillary, Lied

Half of the devices that we encounter in terrorism cases, in counterintelligence cases, in gang cases, in child pornography cases, cannot be opened with any technique. That is a big problem. And so the shadow continues to fall.

Children, Continues, Devices, Fall, Opened, Shadow

We're conducting an investigation to understand whether there was any coordination between the Russian efforts and anybody associated with the Trump campaign.

Associated, Effort, Efforts, Investigation, Trump, Understand

The Clinton investigation was a completed investigation that the FBI had been deeply involved in, so I had an opportunity to understand all the facts and apply those facts against the law as I understood them. This investigation was under way - still going when I was fired. So it's nowhere near in the same place.

Clinton, Facts, Fbi, Involved, Opportunity, Same

In my view, a huge portion of WikiLeaks's activities has nothing to do with legitimate newsgathering, informing the public, commenting on important public controversies, but is simply about releasing classified information to damage the United States of America.

Controversy, Damage, Important, Informing, Portion, Public

Although we did not find clear evidence that Hillary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.

Careless, Clear, Information, Law, Sensitive

Our need for public safety and our need for privacy are crashing into each other and we've got to sort that out.

Crashing, Privacy, Public, Safety, Sort

Our investigation looked at whether there is evidence classified information was improperly stored or transmitted on that personal system, in violation of a federal statute making it a felony to mishandle classified information either intentionally or in a grossly negligent way, or a second statute making it a misdemeanor to knowingly remove classified information from appropriate systems or storage facilities.

Classified, Information, Intentionally, Investigation, Stored, Way

The Obama administration was not in a position where they were seeking legislation. I don't know yet how President Trump intends to approach this. I know he spoke about it during the campaign. I know he cares about it, but it's premature for me to say.

Campaign, Care, Legislation, President, Spoke

I don't know enough about the legislation , but I think the more information you can put in the hands of the people who are vetting, people who are going to be near children, the better.

Children, Information, Legislation, People, Thinking, Vetting

If conduct is intentional, it could subject some of the criminal liability.

Conduct, Criminal, Intentional, Liability, Subject

Sometimes the FBI is assigned to do background checks on people who are coming into government in the executive office of the president. Other times, not. A lot of times there are people who are arriving with clearances that already exist.

Arriving, Assigned, Executive, Office, People, President

There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

Chinese, Hacked, Know, Knows

The FBI also discovered several thousand work-related e-mails that were not in the group of 30,000 that were returned by Secretary Clinton to State in 2014. . . I should add here that we found no evidence that any of the additional work-related e-mails were intentionally deleted in an effort to conceal them.

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In our counterterrorism cases and our counterintelligence cases, we can issue all kinds of - of layers of approval in the FBI, a national security letter to find out the subscriber to a particular telephone number and to find out what numbers that telephone number was in contact with. Not the content of those communications, but just the connection.

Communication, Kind, Layers, Letter, National Security, Security

In their minds, the murderers and accomplices of Germany, and Poland, and Hungary, and so many, many other places didn't do something evil. They convinced themselves it was the right thing to do, the thing they had to do. That's what people do. And that should truly frighten us.

Evil, Germany, Mind, Minds, People, Thing

There are two things that matter in a criminal investigation of a subject. What did the person do, and when they did that thing, what were they thinking? When you look at the hundred-years-plus of the Justice Department investigation and prosecution of mishandling of classified information, those two questions are obviously present.

Look, Mishandling, Subject, Thinking, Two, Years

We all love privacy. We all care about public safety. And none of - at least people that I hang around with, none of us want back doors. We don't want access to devices built-in in some way.

Access, Care, Devices, People, Privacy, Safety

Really bad people around the world, because of the genius of American innovation, use our products and infrastructure for their emails, for their communications.

Communication, Communications, Innovation, People, Products

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