TIPSHEET_ WSJ: Comey Leaked Classified Information to His Friend and He's Being Investigated For It

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WSJ: Comey Leaked Classified Information to His Friend and He's Being Investigated For It

Katie Pavlich
Posted: Apr 20, 2018 1:55 PM





After missing a deadline earlier this week, the FBI finally turned over memos written by fired Director James Comey to Congress Thursday evening. The memos are Comey's recollection of meetings and phone calls with President Trump.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Comey leaked classified information contained in two memos to a friend, who then gave them to the New York Times. That friend was Columbia Law Professor Daniel Richman, who did not have a security clearance.


At least two of the memos that former FBI Director James Comey gave to a friend outside of the government contained information that officials now consider classified, according to people familiar with the matter, prompting a review by the Justice Department’s internal watchdog.

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.

The Justice Department inspector general is now conducting an investigation into classification issues related to the Comey memos, according to a person familiar with the matter. Mr. Comey has said he considered the memos personal rather than government documents. He has told Congress that he wrote them and authorized their release to the media “as a private citizen.”


In an email written by Comey that was released with the memos, the former FBI Director acknowledged his notes could be classified.

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WSJ: Comey Leaked Classified Information to His Friend and He's Being Investigated For It

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