Former FBI Director Admitted He Was the Source Of At Least One Leak To the Press (theoutline.com)

Shortly after his dismissal as head of the FBI, James Comey authorized "a close friend" to leak the contents of his memos to the press in order to prompt a special counsel investigation, he said today. From a report: Former FBI Director James Comey testified that he asked a friend, a law professor at Columbia University, to leak details of his dinner with the President to The New York Times, including the claim that the President asked Comey to drop the investigation into former national security advisor Michael Flynn's contacts with Russian officials. Comey kept meticulous memos of all of his interactions with Trump, and he gave that memo to a friend to pass it along to the Times in order to spark a special investigation. "You considered this not a document of the government, but your own personal document that you could share with the media as you want to?" Senator Roy Blunt asked Comey. "Correct," Comey replied. "I understood this to be my recollection recorded of my conversation with the President. As a private citizen, I felt free to share that. I thought it very important to get it out." Edward Snowden tweeted, "It seems the [former] FBI Director agrees: sometimes the only moral decision is to break the rules."

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Re:Stop the Wordpresses!

[GLMDesigns]

Read the testimony for yourself.

Don't take my word for it, or CNN's or Fox's or anyone else. It's a five minute read.

https://www.intelligence.senat...

Re:How was this not already common knowledge?

[David_Hart]

I agree that it's not illegal. But I think this is what got him fired. If I knew the son of a bitch was sending stuff to the press trying to sabotage me I'd dump him too.

I think that your timeline of events is mixed up. I believe that Comey was fired on May 9th and the Memos weren't revealed until around May 16th, a week later. And this was only after President Trump bashed him on Twitter several times....

So, no, he wasn't fired for leaking stuff to the press. He was clearly fired because President Trump wanted Comey to publicly clear his name concerning the Russia investigation.

Re:How was this not already common knowledge?

[Rei]

He prepared them on government computers on government time (while he was being paid by us), so he was not authorized to release government owned material, whether classified or not

You've got that backwards. Unclassified content created by the government is automatically public domain .