James Comey has been at the forefront of a dangerously excessive amount of requests for new powers for the FBI. He’s the one that tried to get Congress to outlaw encryption, to force backdoors into encryption and other privacy guaranteeing technologies. He’s the man who tried to get Apple to write software to break their own device’s security. He’s been heavily lobbying in an effort to grant the FBI more warrantless powers. He’s not the man that we want in this position because every effort he makes he chips away at the constitutional protections.
The FBI is on the cusp of obtaining three extremely dangerous new powers