Former FBI agent slams ex-director Comey for role in Russiagate, says it wasn't surprising

Former FBI agent Chris Piehota criticized the bureau's former director, James Comey, on Thursday for perpetuating the now-debunked Russiagate story to harm President Trump.

"Director Comey had a practice of bringing in his own external confidants on many things, and it kind of froze out some of the senior agent managers, where we weren't allowed, or we weren't privy to certain instances where we could actually provide counsel against certain courses of action," Piehota said on the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show. 

Just the News reported Tuesday that the FBI concluded numerous legacy news media stories that crafted the false Russia collusion narrative contained illegally leaked classified intelligence but failed to definitively identify the leakers.

According to the report, Comey used a special conduit to the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times in his bid to polish his image and push for a special prosecutor to take down Trump.

"Comey kind of isolated himself on several issues that were just, again, a disappointing but not surprising course of action," Piehota said. 

Piehota said that Comey's actions showed he didn't have faith in his own people when he kept this from others at the agency.