I see the government operating the way the founders intended.
— James Comey
I have trouble applying the 'whistle-blower' label to someone who just disagrees with the way our country is structured and operates.
Serious debates are taking place about how law enforcement personnel relate to the communities they serve, about the appropriate use of force.
FBI Miami is one of the top five offices. Not only are they responsible for all the work that goes on here in South Florida, but they are one of my international offices, so they cover kidnappings or counterintelligence matters or counterterrorism matters in the whole hemisphere.
The threat that ISIL presents and poses to the United States is very different in kind, in type and degree than al Qaeda.
The Chattanooga killer was inspired by a foreign terror organization. It's hard to entangle which particular source... there are lots of competing poisons out there.
There is no doubt something has happened that is lasting in terms of attractiveness of the nightmare that is the Islamic State.
Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary 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.
A lot of terrorists fled out of Afghanistan.
In today's YouTube world, are officers reluctant to get out of their cars and do the work that controls violent crime? Are officers answering 911 calls but avoiding the informal contact that keeps bad guys from standing around, especially with guns?
We investigate in secret so that we don't smear innocent people.
Your parents' al Qaeda was a very different model than the threat we face today.
AOL had a very strong motive to create the appearance of high revenues for PurchasePro because the value of the warrants AOL had received in the deal depended on PurchasePro's performance.
I saw something in the news, so I copied it. I put a piece of tape - I have obviously a laptop, personal laptop - I put a piece of tape over the camera. Because I saw somebody smarter than I am had a piece of tape over their camera.
We all, white and black, carry various biases around with us.
We do assess that hostile actors gained access to the private commercial e-mail accounts of people with whom Secretary Clinton was in regular contact from her personal account.
If you've ever talked to a special agent that you know well, and you ask he or she about a dangerous encounter they were involved in, they'll almost always give you the same answer: 'Yeah, I did it, but I was scared to heck the whole time.'
I think that citizens should be skeptical of government power. But I fear it's bled over to cynicism. It is something that is getting in the way of reasoned discussion, and I'm very concerned about how to change that trend of cynicism.
America isn't easy. America takes work.
Unfortunately, in places like Ferguson, in New York City and in some communities across this nation, there is a disconnect between police agencies and the citizens they serve, predominately in communities of color.
We can only query against that which we have collected. And so if someone has never made a ripple in the pond in Syria in a way that would get their identity or their interest reflected in our database, we can query our database until the cows come home, but there will be nothing show up because we have no record of them.
Do not let fear become disabling. That is what the terrorists want. They want you to imagine them in the shadows; they want you to imagine them as something greater than they are.
We've investigated Chattanooga as a terror attack from the beginning.
We don't want to put people in jail unless we prove that they knew they were doing something they shouldn't do.
At some point, there is going to be a terrorist diaspora out of Syria like we've never seen before.
I don't know if it's true or not that folks are less likely to tell police when they see things.
I know there are other Elton Simpsons out there. But I also know there are Elton Simpsons out there I cannot see.
Encryption threatens to lead all of us to a very dark place.
Folks who think organised crime is a thing of the past are only kidding themselves.
As so often happened during the dot-com bubble days, the revenues that AOL and PurchasePro were counting on did not materialize. And instead of confronting that harsh reality, AOL and PurchasePro cooked up a scheme to inflate PurchasePro's revenues.
After years of police work, officers often can't help but be influenced by the cynicism they feel.
People view the police not as allies, but as antagonists, and think of them not with respect or gratitude, but with suspicion and distrust.
Prosecutors necessarily weigh a number of factors before bringing charges. There are obvious considerations, like the strength of the evidence, especially regarding intent. Responsible decisions also consider the context of a person's actions and how similar situations have been handled in the past.
We have perpetrated a myth in our society that being brave means not being afraid, but that's wrong.
I'm a big fan of the rule of law.
It's not about the stuff. The issue is how we use that stuff and how do we train people to use that stuff. Do we use that stuff to confront people who are protesting in a community? Do we use a sniper rifle to see closer in a crowd? That's where it breaks down.
I worry a bit about the unknowns when it comes to travelers to the war zones in Syria and Iraq. Who don't I see? And I worry about the people who may be in their basements radicalizing that I can't see.
They do not want people committing violence, either in their community or in the name of their faith, and so some of our most productive relationships are with people who see things and tell us things who happen to be Muslim.
The threat here focuses primarily on troubled souls in America who are being inspired or enabled online to do something violent for ISIL.
WhatsApp has over a billion customers, and they are overwhelmingly good people. But in that billion customers are terrorists and criminals... It's a huge feature of terrorist tradecraft.
Even if information is not marked classified in an email, participants who know or should know that the subject matter is classified are still obligated to protect it.
Not all of the Islamic State killers are going to die on the battlefield.
There's a perception that police are less likely to do the marginal additional policing that suppresses crime: the getting out of your car at 2 in the morning and saying to a group of guys, 'What are you doing here?'
The Internet offers the ability for people to consume poison and radicalize entirely in private, either through a device they're holding in their hands or inside their house.
Martha Stewart is being prosecuted not for who she is but what she did.
Undisclosed and illegal payments, kickbacks, and bribes became a way of doing business at FIFA.
Senator Schumer is a partisan.
Many of us develop different flavors of cynicism that we work hard to resist because they can be lazy mental shortcuts.
With respect to potential computer intrusion by hostile actors, we did not find direct evidence that Secretary Clinton's personal e-mail domain, in its various configurations since 2009, was successfully hacked.
Secretary Clinton used several different servers and administrators of those servers during her four years at the State Department and used numerous mobile devices to view and send e-mail on that personal domain. As new servers and equipment were employed, older servers were taken out of service, stored, and decommissioned in various ways.
