FBI Director James Comey on Wednesday evening addressed the challenges of serving as the leader of the FBI in such a partisan environment.
“I know that when I make a hard decision, a storm is going to follow,” he said at the Intelligence and National Security Alliance Leadership dinner in Washington, D.C., per CNN. “Honestly, I don’t care.”
Comey said that the past year “has been both difficult and easier than you might think.”
“I’ve never been prouder of the FBI. What makes it easy: we’re not on anybody’s side, ever. We’re not considering whose ox will be gored by this action or that action, whose fortunes will be helped by this or that. We just don’t care, and we can’t care,” he said.
The FBI director told the audience that the way the FBI operates can confuse people.
“Most people see the world differently than we do, especially in a hyper-partisan environment. Most people are wearing glasses that filter the world according to side,” he said.