‘I literally wanted to rinse myself off,’ ex-FBI agent says of Comey statement – completely disgusted

When James Comey released seven pages of written testimony on Wednesday, many in Washington — and beyond — went searching for precedent, analysis or context. James Gagliano was looking for a shower.

“I read this and I literally wanted to rinse myself off afterwards,” said the former FBI agent. “I felt completely disgusted.”

Both David Gergen and host Erin Burnett asked him to elaborate.

“Can you expand on your sentence you felt like you had to rinse off?” requested Gergen, a White House adviser to four presidents.

“The vision of a small table in the Green Room with the President and the FBI director seated there having a quiet lunch in a cavernous room, with two Navy stewards waiting on them, and Director Comey feeling uncomfortable, awkward, knowing that they shouldn’t be having that … meeting,” Gagliano rattled off, describing the scene, as detailed in Comey’s statement, that had left him feeling icky.

For Gagliano, the collection of awkward exchanges between the President and the former head of the FBI dates back to a fateful moment in January at a White House ceremony…

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