Comey Says Whether He Leaked Classified Information Or Not is NOT Important Enough To Talk About

[Skylar]

For what crime exactly?

As remember.....in the real world, Comey's never been charged with any crime. Let alone convicted. Let alone waiting for a sentencing hearing.

And the expected dodge...."our criminals haven't been arrested and charged yet so they're not criminals"......you're the poster boy for fools here.

Or......your imagination isn't evidence in of a crime.

This must be so confusing for you poor souls. You've been conditioned to believe that your feelings and imagination are facts. And yet neither produce so much as an arrest warrant. Let alone establish any crime.

You're seeing the limit of the pseudo-legal gibberish your ilk tell each other. Its called 'a court room'.

 

[easyt65]

"Former FBI director has said he considered the memos, which he gave to a friend to release to media, personal documents"

Yeah, Hillary Clinton considered more than 15,000 official subpoenaed work-related documents - all of which she never turned in for archiving, which are violations of the FOA & FRA - she tried to destroy 'personal documents', too!





Justice Department Watchdog Probes Comey Memos Over Classified Information


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[Crepitus]

Well, the "question" from the faux Noize reporter was nothing more than an attempt to distract from the real issues. It didn't really require an answer, it was just there to give faux's rabid low IQ crowd something to talk about.


And it did.

Hey Creeptits....what Comey did is Flynn x 10...but we do appreciate him trashing Hilly right before the election. She belongs in prison but in a sense this is just as good...wandering around in the woods drunk yelling at the sky.

No, it's not. If you believe it you are just another gullible moron, I mean conservitard, I mean conservative.

You e gotta stop with the rwnj conspiracy theories and look at some facts for a change.

 

[Skylar]

"Former FBI director has said he considered the memos, which he gave to a friend to release to media, personal documents"

Yeah, Hillary Clinton considered more than 15,000 official subpoenaed work-related documents - all of which she never turned in for archiving, which are violations of the FOA & FRA - she tried to destroy 'personal documents', too!





Justice Department Watchdog Probes Comey Memos Over Classified Information


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Laughing......so you've never been able to quote Comey admitting that he released classified memos.

AND you've never been able to quote Comey claiming that anything said between the president and the FBI director are classified.

And we have Comey saying that the notes that he gave his friend were instead....personal documents.

Your "imagination as evidence" schtick isn't working so well, is it?

 

[depotoo]

Honey, it is posted for you. You just have to be willing to read the transcript.

Well, the "question" from the faux Noize reporter was nothing more than an attempt to distract from the real issues. It didn't really require an answer, it was just there to give faux's rabid low IQ crowd something to talk about.


And it did.

Hey Creeptits....what Comey did is Flynn x 10...but we do appreciate him trashing Hilly right before the election. She belongs in prison but in a sense this is just as good...wandering around in the woods drunk yelling at the sky.

No, it's not. If you believe it you are just another gullible moron, I mean conservitard, I mean conservative.

You e gotta stop with the rwnj conspiracy theories and look at some facts for a change.

 

[Crepitus]

Well, the "question" from the faux Noize reporter was nothing more than an attempt to distract from the real issues. It

It's called 'journalism', something you are not used to because you watch the Fake News Generator, CNN.

Comey himself said the meeting between himself and the President was 'classified'. The notes he took during that meeting were considered 'classified'. Comey admitted to leaking those 'classified' notes to his friend with the specific goal of having them given to the press, it being presented to the 'court of public opinion', and Congress opening up an investigation.

(This TACTIC, by the way - for those who do not know, is a technique used in Counter-Intelligence Operations. Leaking information to a 3rd party who then ensures it reaches the media....what Strzok described as a 'Leaking Strategy'. That was it put into action...and Comey admitted to it.)

Whatever it is it isn't journalism. Nobody has accused Faux of committing journalism in decades.

 

[Crepitus]

Honey, it is posted for you. You just have to be willing to read the transcript.

Well, the "question" from the faux Noize reporter was nothing more than an attempt to distract from the real issues. It didn't really require an answer, it was just there to give faux's rabid low IQ crowd something to talk about.


And it did.

Hey Creeptits....what Comey did is Flynn x 10...but we do appreciate him trashing Hilly right before the election. She belongs in prison but in a sense this is just as good...wandering around in the woods drunk yelling at the sky.

No, it's not. If you believe it you are just another gullible moron, I mean conservitard, I mean conservative.

You e gotta stop with the rwnj conspiracy theories and look at some facts for a change.

Don't be stupier than you have to be kiddo.

 

[Skylar]

Honey, it is posted for you. You just have to be willing to read the transcript.

Well, the "question" from the faux Noize reporter was nothing more than an attempt to distract from the real issues. It didn't really require an answer, it was just there to give faux's rabid low IQ crowd something to talk about.


And it did.

Hey Creeptits....what Comey did is Flynn x 10...but we do appreciate him trashing Hilly right before the election. She belongs in prison but in a sense this is just as good...wandering around in the woods drunk yelling at the sky.

No, it's not. If you believe it you are just another gullible moron, I mean conservitard, I mean conservative.

You e gotta stop with the rwnj conspiracy theories and look at some facts for a change.

Honey....I've got the comey interview with house republcans right here. And it simply doesn't say the horseshit that your ilk are making up.

https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2018/12/Comey-interview-12-17-18-redacted.pdf

The interview isn't a Rorschach test, where conservatives can just imagine whatever they'd in it. Which is why your ilk are consistently quoting YOURSELVES and not Comey.

Show us where Comey admits to releasing classified information in his memo. Show us where Comey admits that anything said between the president and the FBI director is classified.

Just don't hold your breath while you're looking. As that shit's not in there.

 

[easyt65]

While Comey had previously testified before Congress about portions of the memos, they became public in their entirety for the first time on April 19, 2018, after the Justice Department gave redacted versions to Congress.

"Of the seven memos, four now bear classification markings: two are marked "confidential" — the lowest classification level — and two are marked "secret ... the classification appears to have been made by a top official in the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division"

"Before the memos became public, Comey shared at least some of his written impressions with Daniel Richman, a law professor at Columbia University who also advises Comey. In a 2017 interview, Richman said he received four Comey memos."

Let's do some math, shall we?!

- 7 Memos - 4 were classified, 3 were not.

- Comey's accomplice, Richman, said Comey gave him 4 memos.

- Even if Comey gave Richman 3 UN-classified memos that leaves the 4th which was 'CLASSIFIED'.

But Wait - There's MORE.....

"At least two of the four memos Comey shared with Richman contained information that is now considered classified."

What the law says about James Comey’s leaked memos


In an attempt to defend Comey's leaking of information this excuse was given:

"Not all leaks of classified information are criminal"




In Comey's defense it was also said:

"Comey's best defense would be that, as the head of the agency, he has wide discretion to share information with people outside the FBI in order to obtain advice"

THAT sh!t don't float, though, because Comey himself stated he released the memos to his friend with the specific intent of them being reported in the media in hopes that Congress would open up an investigation.

 

[Skylar]

While Comey had previously testified before Congress about portions of the memos, they became public in their entirety for the first time on April 19, 2018, after the Justice Department gave redacted versions to Congress.

"Of the seven memos, four now bear classification markings: two are marked "confidential" — the lowest classification level — and two are marked "secret ... the classification appears to have been made by a top official in the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division"

"Before the memos became public, Comey shared at least some of his written impressions with Daniel Richman, a law professor at Columbia University who also advises Comey. In a 2017 interview, Richman said he received four Comey memos."

Let's do some math, shall we?!

- 7 Memos - 4 were classified, 3 were not.

- Comey's accomplice, Richman, said he Comey gave him 4 memos.

- Even if Comey gave Richman 3 UN-classified memos that leaves the 4th which was 'CLASSIFIED'.

But Wait - There's MORE.....

"At least two of the four memos Comey shared with Richman contained information that is now considered classified."

What the law says about James Comey’s leaked memos


In an attempt to defend Comey's leaking of information this excuse was given:

"Not all leaks of classified information are criminal"




In Comey's defense it was also said:

"Comey's best defense would be that, as the head of the agency, he has wide discretion to share information with people outside the FBI in order to obtain advice"

THAT sh!t don't float, though, because Comey himself stated he released the memos to his friend with the specific intent of them being reported in the media in hopes that Congress would open up an investigation.

Odd, none of that is a Comey quote. Here's Comey's interview with House republicans.

https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2018/12/Comey-interview-12-17-18-redacted.pdf

Show us where Comey admits to releasing classified information in his memo.

Show us where Comey admits that anything said between the president and FBI director is classified.

You're great at quoting YOURSELF as Comey. But when I ask you to quote COMEY as Comey, suddenly you flee.

Odd that.

 

[depotoo]

Mr. Ratcliffe. And did you do that while you were still at
the FBI?
Mr. Comey. I believe so, yes.
Mr. Ratcliffe. A Okay.
Mr. Comey. I made two copies. The ones that I had
written -- and, again, the "they" is a problem here. The ones
that I had written that were not classified, in my judgment, I
gave a copy to Rybicki to keep in his files, and I kept a copy in
my personal safe at home.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Okay. Is your personal safe at home, was
that a GSA-approved storage facility?
Mr. Comey. No, not --
Mr. Ratcliffe. Was it a sensitive compartmented information
facility?
Mr. Comey. Was it a SCIF --
Mr. Ratcliffe. Yes.
Mr. Comey. -- my personal safe? No, it was not.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Okay.
So, when you gave these to Jim Rybicki, was that in
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connection with your departure from the FBI?
Mr. Comey. No. My recollection is I gave them to him
contemporaneous with their creation.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Okay. And that's consistent with what you
testified earlier, that contemporaneous with the creation of many
of these you shared them with senior FBI leadership.
Mr. Comey. Correct.
Mr. Ratcliffe. I want to focus on who outside of FBI
leadership had access to or possession of any of these memos.
Mr. Comey. Okay.
Mr. Ratcliffe. One person that's been identified, at least
publicly, is Daniel Richman. How many of the Comey memos did
Daniel Richman receive, and when did he receive them?
Mr. Comey. Yeah. I'm going to answer that -- I'm not going
to answer communications in connection with my interactions with
my counsel. And so I can answer that in this respect: I sent Dan
Richman images of one memo, the unclassified February 14th memo,
for the purpose of him sharing it with a journalist.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Okay. And when did you do that?
Mr. Comey. In May of -- after I was fired, in May of 2017.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Now, Mr. Richman has had, apparently, a
number of professions. In the public record, he's been identified
by you as a friend, he's been identified by you as a Columbia law
professor, he has been identified as a special government
employee, and I believe he has been identified by you as counsel
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representing you. Is that accurate?
Mr. Comey. Yes, he is representing me and has since I was
fired.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Okay. So, when you shared the contents of
the -- or you shared the February 14th memo -- or was it
February 8th?
Mr. Comey. February 14th.
Mr. Ratcliffe. -- February 14th memo with Mr. Richman, in
which capacity did you share it with him?
Mr. Comey. I didn't consider my transmission to him of that
to be an attorney-client communication, which is why I've spoken
about it. And so he was acting then in a personal capacity for me
that I didn't consider to be an attorney responsibility. Full
stop. He's also someone who's been representing me since I
started, and so I've had a variety of communications with him and
other members of my legal team that I'm not going to talk about.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Well, I appreciate you not wanting to talk
about the contents of any conversations with your legal team, but
I think it's entirely appropriate for us to ask about whether or
not members of your legal team received documents that were ever
marked "classified."
Mr. Comey. Yeah, I don't think it's appropriate -- well, you
can ask anything you want. I'm not going to answer questions
about my communications with my lawyers for the purpose of them
providing me legal advice.
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Mr. Ratcliffe. Do any of your lawyers have security
clearances?
Mr. Comey. I don't know. They all had clearances at various
points in their careers. I don't know the current state of their
clearances.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Well, what I'm really trying to find out,
Director, is: Four of the seven of these memos have been
identified either by you or by the FBI as containing classified
information. And whether they are your counsel or not, I'm trying
to figure out whether or not you provided classified information
to anyone that did not have security clearances.
I don't care about the content of communications that you
had, beyond whether or not you provided classified information to
anyone that did not have appropriate clearances to receive it.
Mr. Comey. I can't -- I'm not going to answer questions
about my communications with my lawyers.
But I want to say, again, what's confusing about when we use
the term "they," four of these memos that I created I created.
They were unclassified at the time I created them. The markings
that are on them now were added months later, and -- but I'm not
going to talk about my communications with my counsel.
Mr. Ratcliffe. I understand that, but I need to ask these
questions.
So did you provide any classified material -- and by that, I
mean material that was classified at the time that you provided it
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or that was later reclassified or up-classified by the FBI -- to
Daniel Richman?
Mr. Comey. The only answer I can give you is the one I gave
you earlier, that I sent a single unclassified email -- excuse
me -- classified memo to Mr. Richman that was unclassified then
and remains unclassified.
To the extent Mr. Richman was part of my legal team, I'm not
going to talk beyond that about communications with my lawyers.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Same question as to Mr. Kelley. Did you
provide classified information to David Kelley?
Mr. Comey. Same answer.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Did you provide classified information to
Patrick Fitzgerald?
Mr. Comey. Same answer.
Mr. Jordan. Can I ask one question?
Mr. Ratcliffe. Sure.
Mr. Jordan. Was the February 14th memo the only one you gave
Mr. Richman?
Mr. Comey. I'm not going to answer questions about
communications I had with Mr. Richman in his role as a member of
my legal team.
I gave Mr. Richman a single unclassified memo, the
February 14th memo, in late May, with the understanding that he
would communicate it publicly. So I didn't consider that to be an
attorney-client communication, because I expected it to be
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communicated publicly.
Mr. Meadows. Director Comey, let me ask one followup there.
When you gave those to these three individuals, I guess, that are
part of your legal team now, were they part of your legal team
then?
Mr. Comey. I didn't say I gave anything to three
individuals. I'm not commenting one way or the other about any
communications with my lawyers.
Mr. Meadows. So did you give anything to any of the three
individuals that Mr. Ratcliffe mentioned prior to them being your
attorney?
Mr. Comey. I'm not going to confirm -- I'm not saying I gave
anything to my lawyers. I'm just not touching communications with
my lawyers.
Mr. Meadows. Because there's an attorney-client privilege,
but that doesn't exist if they were not your attorneys at the
time.
Mr. Comey. Here's what I can do. Before the time those
three individuals became my legal time, which was at the time I
was fired, I had no communications of any kind in which I shared
FBI documents or my personal aide-memoire with them.
Mr. Meadows. So you hired them within hours of you being
fired. That's your testimony here today.
Mr. Comey. I'm not going to answer as to the specifics. But
they were my legal team from shortly after I was fired.
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Mr. Meadows. Well, you understand why there's an importance
of the timeframe, don't you, Director Comey?
Mr. Comey. No, I don't, but I'm not going to talk about the
timeframe.
Mr. Meadows. All right. I'll yield back.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Director Comey, we're focusing on the sharing
of classified information, which, of course, can be a violation of
the law, but it can also be a violation of your employment
agreement if you share nonpublic unclassified information.
Correct?
Mr. Kelley. We're here to answer questions about decisions
not made and made by DOJ and the FBI in connection with the
Hillary Rodham Clinton investigation and the Russian
investigation. This is talking about his firing. Can you explain
the relevance of these questions? Because if this continues,
we're just going to call it a day.

 

[easyt65]

While Comey had previously testified before Congress about portions of the memos, they became public in their entirety for the first time on April 19, 2018, after the Justice Department gave redacted versions to Congress.

"Of the seven memos, four now bear classification markings: two are marked "confidential" — the lowest classification level — and two are marked "secret ... the classification appears to have been made by a top official in the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division"

"Before the memos became public, Comey shared at least some of his written impressions with Daniel Richman, a law professor at Columbia University who also advises Comey. In a 2017 interview, Richman said he received four Comey memos."

Let's do some math, shall we?!

- 7 Memos - 4 were classified, 3 were not.

- Comey's accomplice, Richman, said he Comey gave him 4 memos.

- Even if Comey gave Richman 3 UN-classified memos that leaves the 4th which was 'CLASSIFIED'.

But Wait - There's MORE.....

"At least two of the four memos Comey shared with Richman contained information that is now considered classified."

What the law says about James Comey’s leaked memos


In an attempt to defend Comey's leaking of information this excuse was given:

"Not all leaks of classified information are criminal"




In Comey's defense it was also said:

"Comey's best defense would be that, as the head of the agency, he has wide discretion to share information with people outside the FBI in order to obtain advice"

THAT sh!t don't float, though, because Comey himself stated he released the memos to his friend with the specific intent of them being reported in the media in hopes that Congress would open up an investigation.

Odd, none of that is a Comey quote. Here's Comey's interview with House republicans.

https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2018/12/Comey-interview-12-17-18-redacted.pdf

Show us where Comey admits to releasing classified information in his memo.

Show us where Comey admits that anything said between the president and FBI director is classified.

You're great at quoting YOURSELF as Comey. But when I ask you to quote COMEY as Comey, suddenly you flee.

Odd that.

Nice attempt to spin and divert, snowflake..... Does it say anywhere that this information / these FACTS came out during Comey's testimony before Congress? No.

Fail.

 

[Skylar]

Mr. Ratcliffe. And did you do that while you were still at
the FBI?
Mr. Comey. I believe so, yes.
Mr. Ratcliffe. A Okay.
Mr. Comey. I made two copies. The ones that I had
written -- and, again, the "they" is a problem here. The ones
that I had written that were not classified, in my judgment, I
gave a copy to Rybicki to keep in his files, and I kept a copy in
my personal safe at home.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Okay. Is your personal safe at home, was
that a GSA-approved storage facility?
Mr. Comey. No, not --
Mr. Ratcliffe. Was it a sensitive compartmented information
facility?
Mr. Comey. Was it a SCIF --
Mr. Ratcliffe. Yes.
Mr. Comey. -- my personal safe? No, it was not.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Okay.
So, when you gave these to Jim Rybicki, was that in
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connection with your departure from the FBI?
Mr. Comey. No. My recollection is I gave them to him
contemporaneous with their creation.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Okay. And that's consistent with what you
testified earlier, that contemporaneous with the creation of many
of these you shared them with senior FBI leadership.
Mr. Comey. Correct.
Mr. Ratcliffe. I want to focus on who outside of FBI
leadership had access to or possession of any of these memos.
Mr. Comey. Okay.
Mr. Ratcliffe. One person that's been identified, at least
publicly, is Daniel Richman. How many of the Comey memos did
Daniel Richman receive, and when did he receive them?
Mr. Comey. Yeah. I'm going to answer that -- I'm not going
to answer communications in connection with my interactions with
my counsel. And so I can answer that in this respect: I sent Dan
Richman images of one memo, the unclassified February 14th memo,
for the purpose of him sharing it with a journalist.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Okay. And when did you do that?
Mr. Comey. In May of -- after I was fired, in May of 2017.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Now, Mr. Richman has had, apparently, a
number of professions. In the public record, he's been identified
by you as a friend, he's been identified by you as a Columbia law
professor, he has been identified as a special government
employee, and I believe he has been identified by you as counsel
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representing you. Is that accurate?
Mr. Comey. Yes, he is representing me and has since I was
fired.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Okay. So, when you shared the contents of
the -- or you shared the February 14th memo -- or was it
February 8th?
Mr. Comey. February 14th.
Mr. Ratcliffe. -- February 14th memo with Mr. Richman, in
which capacity did you share it with him?
Mr. Comey. I didn't consider my transmission to him of that
to be an attorney-client communication, which is why I've spoken
about it. And so he was acting then in a personal capacity for me
that I didn't consider to be an attorney responsibility. Full
stop. He's also someone who's been representing me since I
started, and so I've had a variety of communications with him and
other members of my legal team that I'm not going to talk about.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Well, I appreciate you not wanting to talk
about the contents of any conversations with your legal team, but
I think it's entirely appropriate for us to ask about whether or
not members of your legal team received documents that were ever
marked "classified."
Mr. Comey. Yeah, I don't think it's appropriate -- well, you
can ask anything you want. I'm not going to answer questions
about my communications with my lawyers for the purpose of them
providing me legal advice.
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Mr. Ratcliffe. Do any of your lawyers have security
clearances?
Mr. Comey. I don't know. They all had clearances at various
points in their careers. I don't know the current state of their
clearances.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Well, what I'm really trying to find out,
Director, is: Four of the seven of these memos have been
identified either by you or by the FBI as containing classified
information. And whether they are your counsel or not, I'm trying
to figure out whether or not you provided classified information
to anyone that did not have security clearances.
I don't care about the content of communications that you
had, beyond whether or not you provided classified information to
anyone that did not have appropriate clearances to receive it.
Mr. Comey. I can't -- I'm not going to answer questions
about my communications with my lawyers.
But I want to say, again, what's confusing about when we use
the term "they," four of these memos that I created I created.
They were unclassified at the time I created them. The markings
that are on them now were added months later, and -- but I'm not
going to talk about my communications with my counsel.
Mr. Ratcliffe. I understand that, but I need to ask these
questions.
So did you provide any classified material -- and by that, I
mean material that was classified at the time that you provided it
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or that was later reclassified or up-classified by the FBI -- to
Daniel Richman?
Mr. Comey. The only answer I can give you is the one I gave
you earlier, that I sent a single unclassified email -- excuse
me -- classified memo to Mr. Richman that was unclassified then
and remains unclassified.
To the extent Mr. Richman was part of my legal team, I'm not
going to talk beyond that about communications with my lawyers.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Same question as to Mr. Kelley. Did you
provide classified information to David Kelley?
Mr. Comey. Same answer.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Did you provide classified information to
Patrick Fitzgerald?
Mr. Comey. Same answer.
Mr. Jordan. Can I ask one question?
Mr. Ratcliffe. Sure.
Mr. Jordan. Was the February 14th memo the only one you gave
Mr. Richman?
Mr. Comey. I'm not going to answer questions about
communications I had with Mr. Richman in his role as a member of
my legal team.
I gave Mr. Richman a single unclassified memo, the
February 14th memo, in late May, with the understanding that he
would communicate it publicly. So I didn't consider that to be an
attorney-client communication, because I expected it to be
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communicated publicly.
Mr. Meadows. Director Comey, let me ask one followup there.
When you gave those to these three individuals, I guess, that are
part of your legal team now, were they part of your legal team
then?
Mr. Comey. I didn't say I gave anything to three
individuals. I'm not commenting one way or the other about any
communications with my lawyers.
Mr. Meadows. So did you give anything to any of the three
individuals that Mr. Ratcliffe mentioned prior to them being your
attorney?
Mr. Comey. I'm not going to confirm -- I'm not saying I gave
anything to my lawyers. I'm just not touching communications with
my lawyers.
Mr. Meadows. Because there's an attorney-client privilege,
but that doesn't exist if they were not your attorneys at the
time.
Mr. Comey. Here's what I can do. Before the time those
three individuals became my legal time, which was at the time I
was fired, I had no communications of any kind in which I shared
FBI documents or my personal aide-memoire with them.
Mr. Meadows. So you hired them within hours of you being
fired. That's your testimony here today.
Mr. Comey. I'm not going to answer as to the specifics. But
they were my legal team from shortly after I was fired.
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Mr. Meadows. Well, you understand why there's an importance
of the timeframe, don't you, Director Comey?
Mr. Comey. No, I don't, but I'm not going to talk about the
timeframe.
Mr. Meadows. All right. I'll yield back.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Director Comey, we're focusing on the sharing
of classified information, which, of course, can be a violation of
the law, but it can also be a violation of your employment
agreement if you share nonpublic unclassified information.
Correct?
Mr. Kelley. We're here to answer questions about decisions
not made and made by DOJ and the FBI in connection with the
Hillary Rodham Clinton investigation and the Russian
investigation. This is talking about his firing. Can you explain
the relevance of these questions? Because if this continues,
we're just going to call it a day.

And where, pray tell, does Comey claim that anything said between the president and the FBI director were classified?

Just bold that portion for us.

 

[Skylar]

While Comey had previously testified before Congress about portions of the memos, they became public in their entirety for the first time on April 19, 2018, after the Justice Department gave redacted versions to Congress.

"Of the seven memos, four now bear classification markings: two are marked "confidential" — the lowest classification level — and two are marked "secret ... the classification appears to have been made by a top official in the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division"

"Before the memos became public, Comey shared at least some of his written impressions with Daniel Richman, a law professor at Columbia University who also advises Comey. In a 2017 interview, Richman said he received four Comey memos."

Let's do some math, shall we?!

- 7 Memos - 4 were classified, 3 were not.

- Comey's accomplice, Richman, said he Comey gave him 4 memos.

- Even if Comey gave Richman 3 UN-classified memos that leaves the 4th which was 'CLASSIFIED'.

But Wait - There's MORE.....

"At least two of the four memos Comey shared with Richman contained information that is now considered classified."

What the law says about James Comey’s leaked memos


In an attempt to defend Comey's leaking of information this excuse was given:

"Not all leaks of classified information are criminal"




In Comey's defense it was also said:

"Comey's best defense would be that, as the head of the agency, he has wide discretion to share information with people outside the FBI in order to obtain advice"

THAT sh!t don't float, though, because Comey himself stated he released the memos to his friend with the specific intent of them being reported in the media in hopes that Congress would open up an investigation.

Odd, none of that is a Comey quote. Here's Comey's interview with House republicans.

https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2018/12/Comey-interview-12-17-18-redacted.pdf

Show us where Comey admits to releasing classified information in his memo.

Show us where Comey admits that anything said between the president and FBI director is classified.

You're great at quoting YOURSELF as Comey. But when I ask you to quote COMEY as Comey, suddenly you flee.

Odd that.

Nice attempt to spin and divert, snowflake..... Does it say anywhere that this information / these FACTS came out during Comey's testimony before Congress? No.

Fail.

And by 'divert', you mean ask you the same question I've been asking for half an hour?

[COMEY said his meeting with the President was 'classified'.
COMEY'S NOTES about the 'classified' meeting are considered 'classified'.
COMEY admitted to intentionally leaking 'classified'.

Here's Comey's interview with the House Republicans.

https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2018/12/Comey-interview-12-17-18-redacted.pdf

Show us where Comey 'said his meeting with the President was classified'.

And if even YOU are going to toss the blithering nonsense you say on the rhetorical midden heap.....surely you'll understand when we have no use for it.

 

[easyt65]

"Mr. Comey. The only answer I can give you is the one I gave
you earlier, that I sent a single unclassified email -- excuse
me -- classified memo to Mr. Richman that was unclassified then
and remains unclassified."



IF A MEMO / NOTES ARE DEEMED CLASSIFIED - IF ONE LINE IN A DOCUMENT / MEMO IS CLASSIFIED THEN THE ENTIRE DOCUMENT / NOTES ARE DEEMED CLASSIFIED TO THAT LEVEL.
('The classification of an entire document will be the highest classification of information in the document.' If a document has 1 Top Secret line / statement within it then the entire document is classified 'Top Secret'. This is BASIC rules/law covering Classification Markings.)

As I posted with the link above - there were 7 (SEVEN) Memos, 4 CLASSIFIED, 3 UN-Classified.

COMEY admits he sent a CLASSIFIED MEMO to his buddy Richman...then babbles something about it being UN-Classified.

RICHMAN told a different story, that Comey sent him 4 (FOUR) - 3 more than the 1 Comey testified under oath before Congress he sent.

SOMEONE IS LYING......

...McCabe already testified that it is COMEY....

 

[depotoo]

Your spin is a good as his-
Mr. Comey. I don't remember the form number, but I signed an
employment agreement, yes.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Okay. Let me hand you a document. Did it
look anything like this one?
Mr. Comey. I mean, I don't know for sure, but I'm sure -- if
you're telling me this is the FBI's nondisclosure employment
agreement form --
Mr. Ratcliffe. I am.
Mr. Comey. -- I signed one that was an FBI employment
nondisclosure agreement.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Well, I'm just trying to set the -- I don't
have your actual employment agreement. I know that you signed
one. But the standard FBI employment agreement states in
paragraph No. 2 that "all information acquired by me in connection
with my official duties with the FBI and all official material to
which I have access remain the property of the United States of
America."
Did I --
Mr. Comey. You read that correctly.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Okay. So that's what I'm trying to
determine, because the record, I think, is clear that, at least
with respect to some of the Comey memos, you shared them with
other people. Is that accurate?
Mr. Comey. Yes. I gave a copy -- the classified one stayed
on the systems, obviously, of the FBI. I gave a copy of all of
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them to my chief of staff and asked him to keep them in his files
at the FBI.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Okay. So other than --
Mr. Comey. These were at the FBI when I left the FBI.
Mr. Ratcliffe. So that would be Jim Rybicki.
Mr. Comey. Correct.
Mr. Ratcliffe. And did you do that while you were still at
the FBI?
Mr. Comey. I believe so, yes.
Mr. Ratcliffe. A Okay.
Mr. Comey. I made two copies. The ones that I had
written -- and, again, the "they" is a problem here. The ones
that I had written that were not classified, in my judgment, I
gave a copy to Rybicki to keep in his files, and I kept a copy in
my personal safe at home.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Okay. Is your personal safe at home, was
that a GSA-approved storage facility?
Mr. Comey. No, not --
Mr. Ratcliffe. Was it a sensitive compartmented information
facility?
Mr. Comey. Was it a SCIF --
Mr. Ratcliffe. Yes.
Mr. Comey. -- my personal safe? No, it was not.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Okay.
So, when you gave these to Jim Rybicki, was that in
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connection with your departure from the FBI?
Mr. Comey. No. My recollection is I gave them to him
contemporaneous with their creation.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Okay. And that's consistent with what you
testified earlier, that contemporaneous with the creation of many
of these you shared them with senior FBI leadership.
Mr. Comey. Correct.
Mr. Ratcliffe. I want to focus on who outside of FBI
leadership had access to or possession of any of these memos.
Mr. Comey. Okay.
Mr. Ratcliffe. One person that's been identified, at least
publicly, is Daniel Richman. How many of the Comey memos did
Daniel Richman receive, and when did he receive them?
Mr. Comey. Yeah. I'm going to answer that -- I'm not going
to answer communications in connection with my interactions with
my counsel. And so I can answer that in this respect: I sent Dan
Richman images of one memo, the unclassified February 14th memo,
for the purpose of him sharing it with a journalist.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Okay. And when did you do that?
Mr. Comey. In May of -- after I was fired, in May of 2017.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Now, Mr. Richman has had, apparently, a
number of professions. In the public record, he's been identified
by you as a friend, he's been identified by you as a Columbia law
professor, he has been identified as a special government
employee, and I believe he has been identified by you as counsel
representing you. Is that accurate?
Mr. Comey. Yes, he is representing me and has since I was
fired.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Okay. So, when you shared the contents of
the -- or you shared the February 14th memo -- or was it
February 8th?
Mr. Comey. February 14th.
Mr. Ratcliffe. -- February 14th memo with Mr. Richman, in
which capacity did you share it with him?
Mr. Comey. I didn't consider my transmission to him of that
to be an attorney-client communication, which is why I've spoken
about it. And so he was acting then in a personal capacity for me
that I didn't consider to be an attorney responsibility. Full
stop. He's also someone who's been representing me since I
started, and so I've had a variety of communications with him and
other members of my legal team that I'm not going to talk about.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Well, I appreciate you not wanting to talk
about the contents of any conversations with your legal team, but
I think it's entirely appropriate for us to ask about whether or
not members of your legal team received documents that were ever
marked "classified."
Mr. Comey. Yeah, I don't think it's appropriate -- well, you
can ask anything you want. I'm not going to answer questions
about my communications with my lawyers for the purpose of them
providing me legal advice.
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Mr. Ratcliffe. Do any of your lawyers have security
clearances?
Mr. Comey. I don't know. They all had clearances at various
points in their careers. I don't know the current state of their
clearances.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Well, what I'm really trying to find out,
Director, is: Four of the seven of these memos have been
identified either by you or by the FBI as containing classified
information. And whether they are your counsel or not, I'm trying
to figure out whether or not you provided classified information
to anyone that did not have security clearances.
I don't care about the content of communications that you
had, beyond whether or not you provided classified information to
anyone that did not have appropriate clearances to receive it.
Mr. Comey. I can't -- I'm not going to answer questions
about my communications with my lawyers.
But I want to say, again, what's confusing about when we use
the term "they," four of these memos that I created I created.
They were unclassified at the time I created them. The markings
that are on them now were added months later, and -- but I'm not
going to talk about my communications with my counsel.
Mr. Ratcliffe. I understand that, but I need to ask these
questions.
So did you provide any classified material -- and by that, I
mean material that was classified at the time that you provided it
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or that was later reclassified or up-classified by the FBI -- to
Daniel Richman?
Mr. Comey. The only answer I can give you is the one I gave
you earlier, that I sent a single unclassified email -- excuse
me -- classified memo to Mr. Richman that was unclassified then
and remains unclassified.


He admits it is classified, then calls it unclassified. These were not documents he could share.

Mr. Ratcliffe. And did you do that while you were still at
the FBI?
Mr. Comey. I believe so, yes.
Mr. Ratcliffe. A Okay.
Mr. Comey. I made two copies. The ones that I had
written -- and, again, the "they" is a problem here. The ones
that I had written that were not classified, in my judgment, I
gave a copy to Rybicki to keep in his files, and I kept a copy in
my personal safe at home.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Okay. Is your personal safe at home, was
that a GSA-approved storage facility?
Mr. Comey. No, not --
Mr. Ratcliffe. Was it a sensitive compartmented information
facility?
Mr. Comey. Was it a SCIF --
Mr. Ratcliffe. Yes.
Mr. Comey. -- my personal safe? No, it was not.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Okay.
So, when you gave these to Jim Rybicki, was that in
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connection with your departure from the FBI?
Mr. Comey. No. My recollection is I gave them to him
contemporaneous with their creation.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Okay. And that's consistent with what you
testified earlier, that contemporaneous with the creation of many
of these you shared them with senior FBI leadership.
Mr. Comey. Correct.
Mr. Ratcliffe. I want to focus on who outside of FBI
leadership had access to or possession of any of these memos.
Mr. Comey. Okay.
Mr. Ratcliffe. One person that's been identified, at least
publicly, is Daniel Richman. How many of the Comey memos did
Daniel Richman receive, and when did he receive them?
Mr. Comey. Yeah. I'm going to answer that -- I'm not going
to answer communications in connection with my interactions with
my counsel. And so I can answer that in this respect: I sent Dan
Richman images of one memo, the unclassified February 14th memo,
for the purpose of him sharing it with a journalist.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Okay. And when did you do that?
Mr. Comey. In May of -- after I was fired, in May of 2017.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Now, Mr. Richman has had, apparently, a
number of professions. In the public record, he's been identified
by you as a friend, he's been identified by you as a Columbia law
professor, he has been identified as a special government
employee, and I believe he has been identified by you as counsel
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representing you. Is that accurate?
Mr. Comey. Yes, he is representing me and has since I was
fired.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Okay. So, when you shared the contents of
the -- or you shared the February 14th memo -- or was it
February 8th?
Mr. Comey. February 14th.
Mr. Ratcliffe. -- February 14th memo with Mr. Richman, in
which capacity did you share it with him?
Mr. Comey. I didn't consider my transmission to him of that
to be an attorney-client communication, which is why I've spoken
about it. And so he was acting then in a personal capacity for me
that I didn't consider to be an attorney responsibility. Full
stop. He's also someone who's been representing me since I
started, and so I've had a variety of communications with him and
other members of my legal team that I'm not going to talk about.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Well, I appreciate you not wanting to talk
about the contents of any conversations with your legal team, but
I think it's entirely appropriate for us to ask about whether or
not members of your legal team received documents that were ever
marked "classified."
Mr. Comey. Yeah, I don't think it's appropriate -- well, you
can ask anything you want. I'm not going to answer questions
about my communications with my lawyers for the purpose of them
providing me legal advice.
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Mr. Ratcliffe. Do any of your lawyers have security
clearances?
Mr. Comey. I don't know. They all had clearances at various
points in their careers. I don't know the current state of their
clearances.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Well, what I'm really trying to find out,
Director, is: Four of the seven of these memos have been
identified either by you or by the FBI as containing classified
information. And whether they are your counsel or not, I'm trying
to figure out whether or not you provided classified information
to anyone that did not have security clearances.
I don't care about the content of communications that you
had, beyond whether or not you provided classified information to
anyone that did not have appropriate clearances to receive it.
Mr. Comey. I can't -- I'm not going to answer questions
about my communications with my lawyers.
But I want to say, again, what's confusing about when we use
the term "they," four of these memos that I created I created.
They were unclassified at the time I created them. The markings
that are on them now were added months later, and -- but I'm not
going to talk about my communications with my counsel.
Mr. Ratcliffe. I understand that, but I need to ask these
questions.
So did you provide any classified material -- and by that, I
mean material that was classified at the time that you provided it
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or that was later reclassified or up-classified by the FBI -- to
Daniel Richman?
Mr. Comey. The only answer I can give you is the one I gave
you earlier, that I sent a single unclassified email -- excuse
me -- classified memo to Mr. Richman that was unclassified then
and remains unclassified.
To the extent Mr. Richman was part of my legal team, I'm not
going to talk beyond that about communications with my lawyers.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Same question as to Mr. Kelley. Did you
provide classified information to David Kelley?
Mr. Comey. Same answer.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Did you provide classified information to
Patrick Fitzgerald?
Mr. Comey. Same answer.
Mr. Jordan. Can I ask one question?
Mr. Ratcliffe. Sure.
Mr. Jordan. Was the February 14th memo the only one you gave
Mr. Richman?
Mr. Comey. I'm not going to answer questions about
communications I had with Mr. Richman in his role as a member of
my legal team.
I gave Mr. Richman a single unclassified memo, the
February 14th memo, in late May, with the understanding that he
would communicate it publicly. So I didn't consider that to be an
attorney-client communication, because I expected it to be
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communicated publicly.
Mr. Meadows. Director Comey, let me ask one followup there.
When you gave those to these three individuals, I guess, that are
part of your legal team now, were they part of your legal team
then?
Mr. Comey. I didn't say I gave anything to three
individuals. I'm not commenting one way or the other about any
communications with my lawyers.
Mr. Meadows. So did you give anything to any of the three
individuals that Mr. Ratcliffe mentioned prior to them being your
attorney?
Mr. Comey. I'm not going to confirm -- I'm not saying I gave
anything to my lawyers. I'm just not touching communications with
my lawyers.
Mr. Meadows. Because there's an attorney-client privilege,
but that doesn't exist if they were not your attorneys at the
time.
Mr. Comey. Here's what I can do. Before the time those
three individuals became my legal time, which was at the time I
was fired, I had no communications of any kind in which I shared
FBI documents or my personal aide-memoire with them.
Mr. Meadows. So you hired them within hours of you being
fired. That's your testimony here today.
Mr. Comey. I'm not going to answer as to the specifics. But
they were my legal team from shortly after I was fired.
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Mr. Meadows. Well, you understand why there's an importance
of the timeframe, don't you, Director Comey?
Mr. Comey. No, I don't, but I'm not going to talk about the
timeframe.
Mr. Meadows. All right. I'll yield back.
Mr. Ratcliffe. Director Comey, we're focusing on the sharing
of classified information, which, of course, can be a violation of
the law, but it can also be a violation of your employment
agreement if you share nonpublic unclassified information.
Correct?
Mr. Kelley. We're here to answer questions about decisions
not made and made by DOJ and the FBI in connection with the
Hillary Rodham Clinton investigation and the Russian
investigation. This is talking about his firing. Can you explain
the relevance of these questions? Because if this continues,
we're just going to call it a day.

And where, pray tell, does Comey claim that anything said between the president and the FBI director were classified?

Just bold that portion for us.

 

[easyt65]

While Comey had previously testified before Congress about portions of the memos, they became public in their entirety for the first time on April 19, 2018, after the Justice Department gave redacted versions to Congress.

"Of the seven memos, four now bear classification markings: two are marked "confidential" — the lowest classification level — and two are marked "secret ... the classification appears to have been made by a top official in the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division"

"Before the memos became public, Comey shared at least some of his written impressions with Daniel Richman, a law professor at Columbia University who also advises Comey. In a 2017 interview, Richman said he received four Comey memos."

Let's do some math, shall we?!

- 7 Memos - 4 were classified, 3 were not.

- Comey's accomplice, Richman, said he Comey gave him 4 memos.

- Even if Comey gave Richman 3 UN-classified memos that leaves the 4th which was 'CLASSIFIED'.

But Wait - There's MORE.....

"At least two of the four memos Comey shared with Richman contained information that is now considered classified."

What the law says about James Comey’s leaked memos


In an attempt to defend Comey's leaking of information this excuse was given:

"Not all leaks of classified information are criminal"




In Comey's defense it was also said:

"Comey's best defense would be that, as the head of the agency, he has wide discretion to share information with people outside the FBI in order to obtain advice"

THAT sh!t don't float, though, because Comey himself stated he released the memos to his friend with the specific intent of them being reported in the media in hopes that Congress would open up an investigation.

Odd, none of that is a Comey quote. Here's Comey's interview with House republicans.

https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2018/12/Comey-interview-12-17-18-redacted.pdf

Show us where Comey admits to releasing classified information in his memo.

Show us where Comey admits that anything said between the president and FBI director is classified.

You're great at quoting YOURSELF as Comey. But when I ask you to quote COMEY as Comey, suddenly you flee.

Odd that.

Nice attempt to spin and divert, snowflake..... Does it say anywhere that this information / these FACTS came out during Comey's testimony before Congress? No.

Fail.

And by 'divert', you mean ask you the same question I've been asking for half an hour?

[COMEY said his meeting with the President was 'classified'.
COMEY'S NOTES about the 'classified' meeting are considered 'classified'.
COMEY admitted to intentionally leaking 'classified'.

Here's Comey's interview with the House Republicans.

https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2018/12/Comey-interview-12-17-18-redacted.pdf

Show us where Comey 'said his meeting with the President was classified'.

And if even YOU are going to toss the blithering nonsense you say on the rhetorical midden heap.....surely you'll understand when we have no use for it.

No, you are intentionally lying / attempting to mis-direct. The information I posted was not covered / uncovered in Comey's testimony before Congress. The link I provided is separate from that hearing, but you are trying to claim what I posted is false because it did not happen in the hearing.

Fail.

 

[easyt65]

"He admits it is classified, then calls it unclassified. These were not documents he could share."

'Nuff said.

 

[bripat9643]

"Former FBI Director James Comey refused to comment Monday when a reporter asked whether he leaked classified information to prompt the appointment of a special counsel to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

"My understanding is that when you shared your memos with your legal team, that there was a follow-up for a classified containment operation by the bureau. Was there a spill of classified information when you shared those memos?" Fox News correspondent Catherine Herridge asked Comey.

"I'm not going to talk about something like that," Comey responded.

"Well that's important to talk about, whether classified information was mishandled," Herridge followed up.

"Whether you think it is or not, I'm not going to talk about it one way or another," Comey said, before taking a question from another reporter."



"Last summer, Comey admitted in open testimony that he gave memos detailing his conversations with President Donald Trump as FBI chief to a friend, who then gave them to the New York Times.

Comey said that he asked his friend, Columbia Law professor Daniel Richman, to share the memos "because [he] thought that it might prompt the appointment of a special counsel.""

The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this year that "at least two of the memos that [Comey] gave to a friend outside of the government contained information that officials now consider classified."

And here's the part you intentionally left out......

Of those two memos, Mr. Comey himself redacted elements of one that he knew to be classified to protect secrets before he handed the documents over to his friend. He determined at the time that another memo contained no classified information, but after he left the Federal Bureau of Investigation, bureau officials upgraded it to “confidential,” the lowest level of classification.

Justice Department Watchdog Probes Comey Memos Over Classified Information

This is the very Wall Street Journal Article you cited. You knew that it stated that Comey redacted information that he knew to be classified. And intentionally withheld that information from us.

As always, Easy......your argument relies on the ignorance of your audience. And you will always try to mislead us by withholding vital information, collaborator.

It's all classified, moron. Comey isn't the final arbiter on what's classified, especially after he's been fired from the FBI. He had no authority to release those memos. He broke the law.

Says you, just making shit up again. And you're the same hapless soul that insisted that 'anything said between the the FBI director and president was classified'.

Backed by nothing but your talent of pseudo-legal gibberish of course.

Tell us...which law did Comey violate?

And as aside......is there really nothing more to you than making shit up on topics you know nothing about?

Snowflakes don't understand classified data or how to legally handle it. Comey's refusal to answer the question about his handing over official documents / notes to his buddy with the specific purpose of them getting leaked to the press in hopes of an investigation being opened up says it all.

Or, what a Fox News reporter thinks is classified doesn't have much relevance to the issue. Exactly as Comey said.

Again, you know that Comey redacated anything that was classified from his memos. Yet you explicitly omitted that from your post.

As always, you consistently try to mislead, collaborator.

If Comey felt so strongly that there was a need to open an investigation why didn't he sack-/ man-up and make this known, push for one himself? Why go through a 3rd party and through 'Court of Public Opinion' rather than BE the Director of the FBI and use the proper channels?

Based on his last Q&A session under oath in front of Congress, based on his own testimony and claim to not know what the hell was going on in the FBI (Hillary's 'leadership' style in the State Department), Comey is either the most incompetent FBI Director in US history or lied his ass off before Congress ... again.

Or.....the Republicans questioning him failed spectacularly to show that Comey violated any law at all.

You can tell which is more likely by Comey walking a free man, laughing at silly Fox News reporters.

Comey wasn't working for the FBI when he "redacted" his memos. It was illegal for him to even have them, and it was certainly illegal for him to pass them on to his friend.

 

[Dragonlady]

"Former FBI Director James Comey refused to comment Monday when a reporter asked whether he leaked classified information to prompt the appointment of a special counsel to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

"My understanding is that when you shared your memos with your legal team, that there was a follow-up for a classified containment operation by the bureau. Was there a spill of classified information when you shared those memos?" Fox News correspondent Catherine Herridge asked Comey.

"I'm not going to talk about something like that," Comey responded.

"Well that's important to talk about, whether classified information was mishandled," Herridge followed up.

"Whether you think it is or not, I'm not going to talk about it one way or another," Comey said, before taking a question from another reporter."



"Last summer, Comey admitted in open testimony that he gave memos detailing his conversations with President Donald Trump as FBI chief to a friend, who then gave them to the New York Times.

Comey said that he asked his friend, Columbia Law professor Daniel Richman, to share the memos "because [he] thought that it might prompt the appointment of a special counsel.""

The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this year that "at least two of the memos that [Comey] gave to a friend outside of the government contained information that officials now consider classified."


Comey Refuses to Say Whether He Leaked Classified Information

Lst time I checked, leaking classified information was a crime...even for Democrats and Trump-haters.

If Comey committed a crime, why didn't Sessions charge him? Comey is refusing to play your game of smearing everyone in Washington with lies, and totally deny Trump's crimes. He wants to talk about the crimes of Donald Trump, not the stuff you Russians keep making up about Hillary, the FBI, and the mythical deep state.

The last time I checked, Russian trolls like you were seeking to deflect from the crimes being committed daily by your orange faced babboon by claiming that others are committing crimes. Conspiring with an enemy of the USA to smear your election candidate is a huge federal crime.

So is lying to the American public during the election campaign. Trump said he wasn't pursuing business deals in Moscow when he was in fact, negotiating a deal in Moscow. And in lying, Trump and his associates gave Putin and the Russians compromising material because the Russians knew he was lying.