FBI Director James Comey concurred with a Democratic lawmaker that citizenship alone is not a reliable indicator of a person’s “terror threat.”
FBI Director James Comey concurred with a Democratic lawmaker on Wednesday that citizenship alone is not a reliable indicator of the “terror threat” a person may pose to the United States, a rebuke of President Donald Trump’s executive order banning travel from several Muslim-majority countries.
“Most of the people that I talked about that we have open cases on are American citizens, ” Comey told a Senate panel, agreeing with Sen. Patrick Leahy that citizenship does not determine a person’s intentions.
Trump’s restrictions on visa issuance to citizens of Syria, Iran, Libya, Yemen, Sudan and Somalia is on hold by federal court order.
