Revealed: Comey Leaked to Friends Like a Geyser While FBI Director

Routinely the mainstream media portray Comey and some other government leaders as honorable men with integrity, when in fact they are simply snakes in the Washington swamp who can’t be trusted.

Comey’s friends describe their conversations with him as simply talks between friends, but in those discussions Comey purportedly revealed details of his private and privileged meetings with President Donald Trump.

So, was Comey simply like the old neighborhood gossip, or was he deliberately trying to undermine the president?

Benjamin Wittes, a former editorial writer for The Washington Post and now editor-in-chief of the blog Lawfare, has recounted several conversations with Comey, in which the disgraced director provided details of his meetings with the president.

Traditionally, presidential conversations are treated as confidential, so the Chief Executive can have candid talks with officials and confidence that he’s getting good counsel.

Wittes has admitted contacting the New York Times as an unnamed source to share information about what Comey had told him. He also wrote a May 18 blog entitled “What James Comey Told Me About Donald Trump.”

The fact that Wittes did so only after Comey was fired does not change the fact that Comey shared his communications with Trump while he was still FBI director.”

Then there’s the curious tale of Comey writing memos about his conversations with the president. He then allegedly shared them with Columbia Law Professor Daniel Richman, who read them over the phone to a New York Times reporter.

Since the memo story broke, the Judiciary Committee has tried unsuccessfully to get copies of the memos, which the newspaper never saw either.

There’s not one shred of evidence that the memos actually exist. Only Comey and Richman can claim to have seen them, and their credibility is suspect at best.

In his May 3 testimony, under grilling by committee chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Comey denied ever leaking information to the news media. But he didn’t disclose he’d discussed confidential presidential conversations with friends, who later served as conduits to the media.

Georgetown University legal scholar Jonathan Turley has described a “leak” as the release of unauthorized information.

Incidentally, there is no condition that the information may be published or distributed via physical memo.”

Therefore, sharing the information in a conversation would constitute a leak.

In terms of the alleged memos, Comey claims they are his personal documents. Turley argues they are property of the FBI and that Comey violated federal law in releasing them without informing the Justice Department.

These were documents prepared on an FBI computer addressing a highly sensitive investigation on facts that he considered material to that investigation. Indeed, he conveyed that information confidentially to his top aides and later said that he wanted the information to be given to the special counsel because it was important to the investigation.”

Comey’s handling of the Clinton email investigation is already under review by the Inspector General for the Justice Department. It’s unclear if that review will be widened to handle the memo controversy and the media leaks as well.

What’s obvious is that Comey was playing a typical Washington swamp game by using his friends to leak privileged information to the news media.

Source: Breitbart