Comey: I Leaked My Memos in Hopes of a Special Prosecutor
Source: NBC News
Days after the president suggested he has secret recordings of Oval Office conversations with former FBI Director James Comey, the former FBI director said under oath that he woke up in the middle of the night and decided to orchestrate a leak about his memos on meetings with the president.
"I asked a friend of mine to share the content of a memo with the reporter, I didnt do it myself for a variety of reasons, but I asked him to because I thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel," Comey said.
Comey said he handed over the memos to a friend because he had press staked out at his driveway and if he walked outside his house and gave it to the press, it would have been like "feeding seagulls at the beach."
The friend is Columbia Law Professor Dan Richman, a close personal friend of Comey, friends of Richman confirm to NBC News.
Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/card/comey-i-leaked-my-memos-hopes-special-prosecutor-n769821
Apparently the Columbia Law School website melted down after this was revealed.
regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)...gives Rosenstein all the ammo he needs to shut down the special counsel investigation and take it back in-house.
PubliusEnigma
(1,583 posts)thesquanderer
(11,986 posts)I'd be curious to know what the logic behind that could possibly be. That memo says what it says, regardless of the source of the leak or the motivation behind it.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)and get the special counsel shut down. I dare him.
pnwmom
(108,978 posts)He was allowed to publicize his own unclassified memo.
LuckyLib
(6,819 posts)what every thinking person knows was strange behavior. He can do with it what he wants. It wasn't classified. He knew Repugs in congress wouldn't do anything until prodded. This was his prod.
Gothmog
(145,241 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)What else has Citizen Comey been doing since being fired? Who else is he talking to?
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