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I'm Matthew Khan and this is the LawFair podcast bonus edition April 11, 2019.

On Thursday morning Susan Hennessey spoke to James Comey, the former FBI director, at the

Verify 2019 conference.

They talked about encryption, they talked about China, they talked about the threats to democratic

institutions posed by foreign actors and the president of the United States, and Comey

responded to the statements made by Attorney General Bill Barr before the Senate yesterday

about the opening of the Russia investigation.

It's the LawFair podcast bonus edition James Comey at Verify 2019.

Good morning everyone, I'm thank you all for being here today and thank you to director

Comey for joining us as well.

Obviously director Comey is here to have a conversation about cybersecurity, so the first

thing I'm going to do is ambush him with a totally unrelated query to sort of clear the

decks of I think one question that's probably on a lot of people's minds for this on the

record conversation.

And that's that the Attorney General made some interesting curious remarks yesterday.

I have the quote here in which he said that he said that he believes there might have

been spying.

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