More than half of the memos former FBI chief James Comey wrote as personal recollections of his conversations with President Trump about the Russia investigation have been determined to contain classified information, according to interviews with officials familiar with the documents.
This revelation raises the possibility that Comey broke his own agency’s rules and ignored the same security protocol that he publicly criticized Hillary Clinton for in the waning days of the 2016 presidential election.
Comey testified last month he considered the memos to be personal documents and that he shared at least one of them with a Columbia University lawyer friend. He asked that lawyer to leak information from one memo to the news media in hopes of increasing pressure to get a special prosecutor named in the Russia case after Comey was fired as FBI director.
“So you didn’t consider your memo or your sense of that conversation to be a government document?,” Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) asked Comey on June 8. “You considered it to be, somehow, your own personal document that you could share to the media as you wanted through a friend?”
“Correct,” Comey answered. “I understood this to be my recollection recorded of my conversation with the president. As a private citizen, I thought it important to get it out.”
Comey insisted in his testimony he believed his personal memos were unclassified, though he hinted one or two documents he created might have been contained classified information.
“I immediately prepared an unclassified memo of the conversation about Flynn and discussed the matter with FBI senior leadership,” he testified about the one memo he later leaked about former national security adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.
He added, “My view was that the content of those unclassified, memorialization of those conversations was my recollection recorded.”
Give that moron the top bunk in her cell.
Mr. comey I would like to introduce you to General Patreaus and his little black books…
Add another to the list of criminal acts this overgrown boyscout committed. He’ll get away with it. Anyone up there that can do anything about it fears Comey and co. have the goods on them.
Sure would be nice if he were convicted and sent to Gitmo, along with a number of his buddies post haste, AG Sessions…pretty please?!?
Let him share a cell with Loretta.
So by Comey’s standard, someone who leaves the Navy, then jots down everything they recollect about how our nuclear submarines function can simply post that on the internet with impunity? Or those who work developing our weapons technology? Once they become private citizens, can they post their “recollections” on Facebook? Or sell them to the Russians/Chinese/ISIS?
Let’s hope the big, lovable doofus was right when he said that they were going to let Hillary get away with her crimes but nobody else had better try it!
I am so sick of this shit.
Ditto,. RottyLover.
Lawyers in general, and especially lawyers turned Politicians, live in a micro-universe where Success is gained by arranging and rearranging words, spoken and on paper.
Once arrested, words become the only tool, only weapon and only currency they have.
Usually they remain under the same three comforting delusions:
1. I am the smartest man/woman here.
2. I can convince these lesser intellects of anything I say.
3. I can charm and persuade and bluff and/or deal my way out of this.
Despite past advantages, everyone talks, because ultimately talking is their only hope.
Frog-march Comey, Lynch and Shrillary off to prison and toss their miserable asses into the same cell. They can all get weepy together.