This seems to be based on reporting from, who else, Fox and Friends.James Comey leaked CLASSIFIED INFORMATION to the media. That is so illegal!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 10, 2017
And THAT reporting links to an article over on The Hill.Report accuses material James Comey leaked to a friend contained top secret information http://pic.twitter.com/Hkg4cAb6o9— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) July 10, 2017
Now what is interesting about that Hill article is that it was written by a John Solomon, who was just named as The Hill's Executive Vice President, Digital.
Before that he was the editor-in-chief of the Sun Myung Moon founded Washington Times, a conservative new outlet.
In between these two jobs Solomon worked for Circa News, which is owned by the Sinclair Group.
Now if THAT name seems familiar it is because you remember that amazing story that John Oliver did on Sinclair Group buying up local TV news outlets in order to push a conservative agenda and pepper them with Right Wing talking points.
So while I am not saying that for sure this story about James Comey leaking classified information in his memos is bullshit, I think we can all assume that it is bovine excrement of some sort.
Which is more or less backed up by Comey's law professor buddy.
Courtesy of CNN:
The Columbia University Law School professor and confidant of former FBI Director James Comey refuted a charge by President Donald Trump and his advocates in the media Monday: that Comey shared classified information with journalists.
Daniel Richman, with whom Comey shared at least one memo -- the contents of which Richman shared with New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt -- said President Trump was simply wrong.
"No memo was given to me that was marked 'classified,'" Daniel Richman told CNN. "No memo was passed on to the Times."
Richman did share the contents of one memo, he said, but "the substance of the memo passed on to the Times was not marked classified and to my knowledge remains unclassified."
And let's face it if ANYBODY knows how to draft a memo without revealing classified information it is the former director of the FBI.
I'm going to go ahead and call this a clumsy diversion from Donald Trump.
This story about his son and the Russian attorney is clearly causing him great concern and he is just throwing shit out there in the hopes that the press will chase after it and leave this story alone.
Fat chance buddy.
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