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Comey leaked; OIG to investigate

couldna happened to a more deserving guy. https://www.wsj...
Coiffed harsh national hunting ground
  04/20/18
lol at "information that officials now consider classif...
Confused Station
  04/20/18
msm, spinning like mad. it was always classified. since w...
Coiffed harsh national hunting ground
  04/20/18
When he decides it's personal and not a government record.
Well-lubricated lettuce
  04/20/18
Except that he had already decided to classify it as "s...
spectacular dysfunction space
  04/20/18
? That doesn't look like the memo he released to his law...
Well-lubricated lettuce
  04/20/18
Then which memos did he leak?
spectacular dysfunction space
  04/20/18
The one his about "I hope you can see your way to clear...
Well-lubricated lettuce
  04/20/18
I thought the whole loyalty pledge was one of the things lea...
spectacular dysfunction space
  04/20/18
But he specifically told POTUS "I don't leak". Its...
spectacular dysfunction space
  04/20/18
So let's tack on a violation of 18 USC § 1001 for that,...
wonderful electric furnace associate
  04/20/18
(Xo 201
lascivious self-absorbed school cafeteria
  04/22/18
What, you don't think our Chief Magistrate, the Unitary Exec...
wonderful electric furnace associate
  04/23/18
180. need to set an example.
Bateful Rigpig
  04/20/18
180
wonderful electric furnace associate
  04/20/18
would love it, but seems weak 1st memo that he knew to be...
fragrant pozpig fortuitous meteor
  04/20/18
I agree with you in principle, but get back to me when they ...
wonderful electric furnace associate
  04/20/18
yup.
Coiffed harsh national hunting ground
  04/20/18
Flynn only committed a crime that carries probation for firs...
lascivious self-absorbed school cafeteria
  04/21/18
The fact that Flynn is getting fucked is no reason to go aft...
Well-lubricated lettuce
  04/20/18
Absolutely it is. Leverage over people he cares about is may...
wonderful electric furnace associate
  04/20/18
Using law enforcement agencies to settle political grudges i...
Well-lubricated lettuce
  04/20/18
that ship sailed long ago
Cocky gold halford
  04/20/18
You don't seem very committed to the whole "make Americ...
Well-lubricated lettuce
  04/20/18
we'll make america great again by jailing troublesome journo...
Cocky gold halford
  04/20/18
Ok well you're not doing that either.
Well-lubricated lettuce
  04/20/18
Both of you faggote are right.
cyan home filthpig
  04/22/18
Seems like the media is equivocating with respect to the ter...
Well-lubricated lettuce
  04/20/18
Hillary had Secret and Top Secret stuff going through her se...
wonderful electric furnace associate
  04/20/18
I don't give a fuck what the media said about Hillary. That ...
Well-lubricated lettuce
  04/20/18
Wasn't he already fired when he made the redaction to memo n...
Cocky gold halford
  04/20/18
If you write a personal memo containing unclassified info, a...
Well-lubricated lettuce
  04/20/18
Isn't the problem that the government was unaware of the mem...
Cocky gold halford
  04/20/18
"Isn't the problem that the government was unaware of t...
Well-lubricated lettuce
  04/20/18
I think they're charging him with committing a crime, not vi...
Bateful Rigpig
  04/20/18
You forgot to link to the indictment.
Well-lubricated lettuce
  04/20/18
Classified information is classified whether or not it has b...
rebellious stage
  04/22/18
spin, ratfucks
buck-toothed aquamarine theatre background story
  04/20/18
it wasn't marked as being classified i don't know what c me...
rusted water buffalo office
  04/20/18
Classified information is classified whether or not it has b...
rebellious stage
  04/22/18
That’s it—arrest Comey and stop the Mueller investigation
lascivious self-absorbed school cafeteria
  04/22/18
this treasonous piece of swamp trash has been running his mo...
Maroon at-the-ready clown
  04/20/18
The rat fucks will spin
Charismatic hyperactive preventive strike useless brakes
  04/20/18
...
Slap-happy Irradiated Range Dopamine
  04/20/18
...
khaki tanning salon
  04/21/18
...
snowy yarmulke
  04/20/18
Lol at pathetic libs trying to spin this. I remember when Co...
violent native
  04/20/18
How soon do you think Comey will be indicted?
Well-lubricated lettuce
  04/20/18
it's just the OIG. tough bastard. i don't think anyone will ...
Coiffed harsh national hunting ground
  04/22/18
Lmfao
lascivious self-absorbed school cafeteria
  04/21/18
somebody copy pasta
laughsome affirmative action theater stage
  04/21/18
Lmao
purple striped hyena idiot
  04/22/18
yeah, it's Breitbart but Slate and WSJ are on board with the...
Coiffed harsh national hunting ground
  04/23/18


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Date: April 20th, 2018 2:38 PM
Author: Coiffed harsh national hunting ground

couldna happened to a more deserving guy.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-watchdog-probes-comey-memos-over-classified-information-1524243505

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35882622)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 2:42 PM
Author: Confused Station

lol at "information that officials now consider classified"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35882658)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 2:45 PM
Author: Coiffed harsh national hunting ground

msm, spinning like mad.

it was always classified. since when can an FBI Director take an internal memo after being fired and ask a personal friend to leak it to the press?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35882690)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 2:46 PM
Author: Well-lubricated lettuce

When he decides it's personal and not a government record.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35882695)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 2:48 PM
Author: spectacular dysfunction space

Except that he had already decided to classify it as "secret" (at least his first memo). See page 1. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4442900-Ex-FBI-Director-James-Comey-s-memos.html

We really need to stop relying on media for spin when the source materials are so readily available.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35882716)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 3:01 PM
Author: Well-lubricated lettuce

?

That doesn't look like the memo he released to his law prof buddy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35882829)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 3:04 PM
Author: spectacular dysfunction space

Then which memos did he leak?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35882856)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 3:09 PM
Author: Well-lubricated lettuce

The one his about "I hope you can see your way to clearing my name" or whatever. The memo you linked to is the one where he tells Trump about the piss tape.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35882898)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 4:55 PM
Author: spectacular dysfunction space

I thought the whole loyalty pledge was one of the things leaked and that’s in the first memo right where he talks about not leaking.

Edit: this is the article I recall. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/us/politics/trump-comey-firing.amp.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35883761)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 2:45 PM
Author: spectacular dysfunction space

But he specifically told POTUS "I don't leak". Its right there in his memo which he leaked...

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4442900-Ex-FBI-Director-James-Comey-s-memos.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35882681)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 3:03 PM
Author: wonderful electric furnace associate

So let's tack on a violation of 18 USC § 1001 for that, then.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35882853)



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Date: April 22nd, 2018 1:00 PM
Author: lascivious self-absorbed school cafeteria

(Xo 201

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35894040)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 1:08 AM
Author: wonderful electric furnace associate

What, you don't think our Chief Magistrate, the Unitary Executive, counts?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35898260)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 2:57 PM
Author: Bateful Rigpig

180. need to set an example.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35882790)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 3:01 PM
Author: wonderful electric furnace associate

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35882824)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 3:05 PM
Author: fragrant pozpig fortuitous meteor

would love it, but seems weak

1st memo that he knew to be classified he redacted

2nd memo was not classified at all at the time and was only deemed "confidential" afterwards, the lowest level

Dudes a snake, but this is petty and we need bigger stuff on him. I want a #metoo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35882868)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 3:11 PM
Author: wonderful electric furnace associate

I agree with you in principle, but get back to me when they drop the Flynn charges. Ticky-tack stuff should go both ways or (ideally) no ways.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35882915)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 3:12 PM
Author: Coiffed harsh national hunting ground

yup.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35882924)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 8:34 PM
Author: lascivious self-absorbed school cafeteria

Flynn only committed a crime that carries probation for first offenders if I'm not mistaken. Odd that it is taking so long to resolve and that you guys describe his situation in such grave terms

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35890850)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 3:13 PM
Author: Well-lubricated lettuce

The fact that Flynn is getting fucked is no reason to go after Comey.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35882950)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 4:13 PM
Author: wonderful electric furnace associate

Absolutely it is. Leverage over people he cares about is maybe the only thing that will stop Mueller's witch-hunt.

That's how Mueller got the Flynn bullshit plea in the first place: threatening to charge his son with an even more bullshit offense. If that was kosher, charging Mueller's mentor (and the instigator of the Special Counsel investigation in the first place) is absolutely kosher.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35883391)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 4:20 PM
Author: Well-lubricated lettuce

Using law enforcement agencies to settle political grudges is never cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35883459)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 4:21 PM
Author: Cocky gold halford

that ship sailed long ago

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35883477)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 4:24 PM
Author: Well-lubricated lettuce

You don't seem very committed to the whole "make America great again" thing.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35883493)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 5:22 PM
Author: Cocky gold halford

we'll make america great again by jailing troublesome journos, prosecuting political opponents, and sending all millennials to gitmo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35883927)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 7:17 PM
Author: Well-lubricated lettuce

Ok well you're not doing that either.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35884750)



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Date: April 22nd, 2018 2:14 PM
Author: cyan home filthpig

Both of you faggote are right.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35894385)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 3:12 PM
Author: Well-lubricated lettuce

Seems like the media is equivocating with respect to the term "classified." This wasn't top secret or or secret.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35882939)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 4:14 PM
Author: wonderful electric furnace associate

Hillary had Secret and Top Secret stuff going through her server all the time, though. I assume the media treated this with appropriate gravity?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35883407)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 4:20 PM
Author: Well-lubricated lettuce

I don't give a fuck what the media said about Hillary. That has no bearing on whether someone should be charged with a crime over this.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35883463)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 3:56 PM
Author: Cocky gold halford

Wasn't he already fired when he made the redaction to memo no. 1? If he lacked classification authority at the time he made the redaction, does it matter that he redacted it before sending to his friend?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35883268)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 4:00 PM
Author: Well-lubricated lettuce

If you write a personal memo containing unclassified info, and the information becomes classified AFTER you cease to work for the government, I don't think the government can punish you for releasing the memo.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35883293)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 4:13 PM
Author: Cocky gold halford

Isn't the problem that the government was unaware of the memo's existence and classified it after the fact when they discovered it?

Seems more accurate to say its contents were always classified, but memo was unmarked because the government didn't know it existed.

This is the kinda shit you'd expect an FBI Director to know.

Recall that the FBI only got their hands on it after the fact when Mueller asked him to turn it over.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35883385)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 4:23 PM
Author: Well-lubricated lettuce

"Isn't the problem that the government was unaware of the memo's existence and classified it after the fact when they discovered it?"

I don't think that's a problem if he no longer worked for the government when it occurred, unless by "problem" you're referring to the fact that he can't be charged with a crime.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35883485)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 4:30 PM
Author: Bateful Rigpig

I think they're charging him with committing a crime, not violating a rule in the employee handbook

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35883539)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 4:31 PM
Author: Well-lubricated lettuce

You forgot to link to the indictment.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35883550)



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Date: April 22nd, 2018 11:56 AM
Author: rebellious stage

Classified information is classified whether or not it has been marked/designated as “classified.” A high ranking official like comey is expected to know what info is classified even if it hasn’t been marked.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35893697)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 4:09 PM
Author: buck-toothed aquamarine theatre background story

spin, ratfucks

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35883361)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 4:24 PM
Author: rusted water buffalo office

it wasn't marked as being classified

i don't know what c means

like with a cloth? cackle cackle

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35883494)



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Date: April 22nd, 2018 11:57 AM
Author: rebellious stage

Classified information is classified whether or not it has been marked/designated as “classified.” A high ranking official like comey is expected to know what info is classified even if it hasn’t been marked.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35893700)



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Date: April 22nd, 2018 12:02 PM
Author: lascivious self-absorbed school cafeteria

That’s it—arrest Comey and stop the Mueller investigation

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35893724)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 4:27 PM
Author: Maroon at-the-ready clown

this treasonous piece of swamp trash has been running his mouth non-stop. clearly thought he was immune from consequences!!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35883518)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 4:29 PM
Author: Charismatic hyperactive preventive strike useless brakes

The rat fucks will spin

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35883530)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 4:56 PM
Author: Slap-happy Irradiated Range Dopamine



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35883765)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 10:52 AM
Author: khaki tanning salon



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35887826)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 4:39 PM
Author: snowy yarmulke



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35883630)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 7:34 PM
Author: violent native

Lol at pathetic libs trying to spin this. I remember when Comey first leaked the memos, I was one of the few on this site to say it was grounds for prosecution. The memos aren't Comey's. They are property of the FBI. That is the first level of analysis. After that you get to classification, etc. Libs want to skip to the second part and ignore the fact that Comey stole the memos before leaking them (or had them in an unsecure place that he accessed after he was fired, or had someone steal them for him after he was fired).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35884946)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 7:47 PM
Author: Well-lubricated lettuce

How soon do you think Comey will be indicted?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35885020)



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Date: April 22nd, 2018 2:03 PM
Author: Coiffed harsh national hunting ground

it's just the OIG. tough bastard. i don't think anyone will recommend criminal charges. but i'm pretty sure the OIG will roast Comey about the leaks.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35894348)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 8:29 PM
Author: lascivious self-absorbed school cafeteria

Lmfao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35890828)



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Date: April 21st, 2018 8:32 PM
Author: laughsome affirmative action theater stage

somebody copy pasta

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35890840)



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Date: April 22nd, 2018 11:48 AM
Author: purple striped hyena idiot

Lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35893655)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 7:11 PM
Author: Coiffed harsh national hunting ground

yeah, it's Breitbart but Slate and WSJ are on board with the basic conclusion that Comey's book is a flat out lie.

--

Reports Contradict Comey Book’s Claim of Only Leaking ‘One Unclassified Memo’

by AARON KLEIN23 Apr 2018526

Former FBI Director James Comey may have misled the public when he claimed in his recently released book that he only provided “one unclassified memo” to an associate with the purpose of sharing the contents with a reporter.

The associate, Columbia University professor Daniel Richman, told Fox News in May that he received four memos in total from Comey. Last week, citing “people familiar with the matter” the Wall Street Journal reported that the Justice Department’s watchdog opened a review of Comey’s actions in allegedly providing four memos to Richman to share with the news media.

Richman did not reply to a Slate.com request for comment on the total number of memos that he received from Comey. Slate reported that the Fox News report citing Richman as describing four separate memos “appears to be correct” based on “reporting in the Wall Street Journal along with Slate’s own reporting.”

Those characterizations clearly contrast with the following paragraph in Comey’s memoir describing what he gave to Richman:

Tuesday morning, after dawn, I contacted my good friend Dan Richman, a former prosecutor and now a professor at Columbia Law School. Dan had been giving me legal advice since my firing. I told him I was going to send him one unclassified memo and I wanted him to share the substance of the memo—but not the memo itself—with a reporter.

He does not write of sharing any more memos with Richman.

Comey is said to have authored seven memos in total memorializing his private conversations with Trump. The Washington Post reported that four of the memos contained classified information — two were classified as “confidential” and two more as secret.

Using simple mathematics, this means that if Comey provided Richman with four memos out of seven, one had to have contained material determined to have been classified.

According to the Journal report, Comey himself redacted portions of one of those two memos, but another portion later determined to be classified was not redacted:

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.”

Comey’s uncertainty about classification was highlighted in an email to colleagues introducing a Jan. 7, 2017 memo in which he stated that “I am unsure of the proper classification so I have chosen secret.”

The issue of what is classified also may come into play with regard to Comey’s admission in his memoir that he treated the memos like a personal “diary” and took home a memo detailing his conversations with Trump in a one-on-one White House dinner on Jan. 27, 2017.

He wrote:

As was my practice, I printed two copies of the memo. One I shared with the FBI senior leadership team and then had my chief of staff keep in his files. The other I locked up at home, for two reasons: I considered the memo my personal property, like a diary; and I was concerned that having accurate recollections of conversations with this president might be important someday, which, sadly, turned out to be true.

In testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee last June, Comey said he shared memos memorializing his private conversations with Donald Trump “with a friend” to in turn provide the contents to a reporter “because I thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel.”

Aaron Klein is Breitbart’s Jerusalem bureau chief and senior investigative reporter. He is a New York Times bestselling author and hosts the popular weekend talk radio program, “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio.” Follow him on Twitter @AaronKleinShow. Follow him on Facebook.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954943&forum_id=2#35903878)